Noreen Krusel

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Research Utilisation Manager

Noreen has research, policy and operational experience in bushfire community safety programs.  She also has extensive experience in post fire analysis. Noreen is assisting fire and land management agencies to bridge the gap between research and its effective application.

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04-Nov-2011

Last month I wrote about our efforts to ‘mainstream’ the human factors research from two of our Projects – Safe Behaviour and Decision Making, and Enhancing IMT Effectiveness and Organisational Learning - by offering professional development workshops. 

In...

29-Sep-2011
‘Mainstreaming’ Human Factors Research

The initial seven year program of research at the Bushfire CRC included two projects that applied human factors knowledge.  These were; Safe Behaviour and Decision Making, led by Dr Mary Omodei and Enhancing...

04-Aug-2011

Many organisations in the fire, land and emergency management sector are seeking to improve their organisation’s learning.  There are many ways this can be done, and extensive experience in the military domain has been extended and built upon by wildland fire agencies in...

02-Jul-2011

During the consultation we undertook when developing our new Research Utilisation Strategy, we identified that engagement and active involvement was an area that was critical to success.

With this in mind the Bushfire CRC is taking up the opportunity to promote...

04-Jun-2011

The utilisation of research comes through a long and convoluted process of identifying problems, conducting research, figuring out what it might be telling us, what that might mean to us, and then, doing something about it.  What’s more, none of this happens without people...

04-May-2011

Over the past few years the Bushfire CRC and the fire and emergency management industry have worked closely together to build new research into the policy and practices of the industry.  This has been encapsulated in the AFAC Approach to Knowledge Management and is...

01-Apr-2011

In my last blog I referred to our new strategy to support the utilisation of research over the next few years, and I have previously referred to a survey that was conducted to inform our future direction.  Well – the results of that survey and the analysis of the data is...

07-Feb-2011

In November 2010 our end user agencies participated in a survey about research utilisation; about how their agencies were set up to deal with research from the Bushfire CRC, about their use of the tools and mechanisms that we had developed and also about potential barriers...

17-Dec-2010

Partners in the Bushfire CRC have recently have been emailed a Fire Note outlining the Seasonal Wildfire Outlook for New Zealand 2010-11.  The Fire Note is also on the Bushfire CRC website. Here is a research utilisation "spin" on the Outlook.

The...

30-Nov-2010

You may have heard about,  or participated in, our Research Utilisation survey recently.  The survey went to all of our end user stakeholder agencies at the end of September. We received 145 responses.

A big thank you to all agencies and individuals who...

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