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Associate Professor Valerie Ingham holds a position at Charles Sturt University's Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security, specializing in Emergency Management. She supervises Doctor of Public Safety candidates and designs tertiary programs in emergency management and fire services. Her research emphasizes community resilience, disaster fatigue, and compound disasters' impact on communities.
Education: PhD (University of Western Sydney, 2010), Master of Education (UWS, 2001), Bachelor of Adult Education (UWS, 1999).
Research Interests: Fire services, community recovery mechanisms, decision-making under pressure, and cross-cultural resilience comparisons between Bangladeshi and Australian communities. She focuses on local organizations' roles in disaster resilience and the psychological effects of repeated disasters.
Key Contributions: Authored 67 research outputs, including studies on Blue Mountains disaster resilience and animal health in emergencies. Editor of Salus Journal and active in disaster sociology networks.
- Awards:
- Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (2014)
- Resilient Australia Award (NSW) Community Award (2015)
Advising & Grants: Supervises doctoral candidates and led the 2024 FoBJBS grant for research on Aboriginal deaths in custody. Collaborates with the Blue Mountains Resilience & Preparedness Working Group and Mountains Community Resource Network.
Labs/Teams: Member of the Law, Justice and Resilience Research Group and Regional Work and Organisational Resilience Sturt Group.
