David is responsible for media relations and communications for the Bushfire CRC. Prior to that he was a journalist with Melbourne's daily broadsheet The Age and News Limited's community newspapers, and a Communications and Media Manager at Monash and Deakin universities.
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Last week I attended the Australian Science Communicators conference in Sydney on behalf of the Bushfire CRC.
The purpose of the event was neatly summed up by Paul Willis, the new Director of the RiAus, an organisation dedicated to the promotion of science which...
One of the more striking sights at our annual conference is the row upon row of research posters in the main expo area. The range and diversity of style, colour and layout is impressive but the real impact is in the prominent Bushfire CRC branding across the lot. This is...
The Annual Reporting process is mostly a dry and formal process that provides our Federal funders with the data it needs to know we are performing acceptably in research outputs, finance and a range of other measurements.
On the other hand, the written Annual...
As the Bushfire CRC prepares to attend the Fire Protection Association of Australia conference in Adelaide later this month, another edition of our joint Fire Australia magazine is set to hit the streets.
The quarterly magazine is a joint publication of...
The high media coverage out of the annual conference in Sydney continued through September, as parts of Australia experienced a run of bushfires across the east coast and into central Australia.
The occurrence of these fires was no surprise to our partners –...
Last week’s annual conference in Sydney was a very busy communications time for the Bushfire CRC, with our team in constant demand from numerous media outlets.
The rush started with the publication just before the conference opened of our Southern...
Bushfire CRC partners know that our annual joint conference with AFAC is the biggest single event on our calendar for promoting our research – this month in Sydney more than 1000 conference delegates will spend a week hearing about new developments. But this is...
Have you noticed we have been using video content to complement the other types of information available on our project pages? The idea is that the online visitor can view a poster, read a research report, access a journal article and then watch a brief video of the...
What does all this rain and flood mean for people living in bushfire prone areas? That's the topic of a public event at the Stawell Entertainment Centre next week,
Bushfire Science is...
More and more people are keeping in touch with the latest news from the Bushfire CRC by “liking” our Facebook fan page. Since we can’t be in contact with everyone face to face or even by email, our Facebook page is an ideal way to be in...
During the floods in Queensland and Victoria in January some Bushfire CRC researchers were asked to make comments in the media including one of our new postgraduate students, Rachel Carter, of La Trobe University, who spoke on issues of insurance for natural disasters....
Thanks for all the useful comments on our new website. The reality is that websites are always a work in progress and good suggestions for improvement can often be implemented fairly quickly.
The main work still to be done is on the pages that have resources for...
I hope you have noticed that the Bushfire CRC website has been completely overhauled with a new look and a new feel.
The site is linked to a database where each individual bit of information (for example, a report, researcher, partner organisation or news article)...
Three Bushfire CRC researchers featured at a public science forum in Adelaide in October. The forum, organised through RiAust (Royal Institute of Australia), attracted more than 120 people to hear about how science has attacked common...
