Thread by @edu4drr

THREAD: My research was published today in the International Journal Of Disaster Risk Reduction (#DRR) The link is below. I wanted to take you through it in a series of graphics and infographics. So here goes....

authors.elsevier.com/a/1dB907t2zZ5m…

This is #SantaBarbara, California. It really is a beautiful place to live, but expensive too. (Secretly - or maybe not - I would LOVE to live and work here). It is also where I carried out my #PhD fieldwork, Living my best #phdlife...

Like many places in Southern California, there are a number of #naturalhazards that can and do impact on the city and its surrounding County:

Wildfires 🔥🔥
Mudslides ⛰️ 🪨
Earthquakes 🏚️🏚️
Tsunamis 🌊🌊

There are some interesting #demographics that make Santa Barbara a fascinating case study for the potential impact of #disasters was well as community #resilience. And being well-off does not mean immunity from these, especially if there are weaker social networks.

To investigate the impact of Transformative Learning from community learning programs such as #CERT (Community Emergency Response Teams) and Listos, on disaster #preparedness and response, I focussed on three research #hypotheses:

A major finding was, how #trust came about in the community #KnowledgeBrokers, as shown in this infographic. They worked via informal channels, enhancing ‘community connectedness’ by building social networks for #disaster preparedness.
(Graphic Source: Sharpe, 2018).

#KnowledgeBroker: "An intermediary that develops relationships and networks with, among, and between producers and users of knowledge by providing linkages, knowledge sources, and in some cases knowledge itself". (Sharpe, 2018)

#NarrativeInquiry was used to interrogate narratives (144,000 words transcribed from field interviews with 22 CERT trainees, 16 Listos trainees, and six trainers). This is a snapshot of how self-efficacy was transformed to become group efficacy:

Finally, I summarise the Five Ways #TransformativeLearning strengthens community resilience to #disaster risks. I believe this is particularly pertinent for #EMGTwitter. Source: Sharpe, 2018

Summary: Overall, CERT and Listos were shown to be practice oriented, culturally and socially adapted programmes that fostered transformative learning, trust and social networks as key resources for community resilience to #disaster risk.