Belinda Davis
About
Belinda is a PhD student at Monash University exploring the potential role and function of education in building societal resilience in the context of natural hazards and environmental instability.
Belinda’s research applies relational ontologies and socialized theories of education to develop new educational concepts and models geared towards driving real transformative systemic change. Her research includes a critical review of international school-based disaster resilience education programs, applied as evidence for the need to generate new educational understandings that can shift us beyond existing standardized, instructional and instrumentalized learning approaches.
Prior to her PhD, Belinda received a Master’s Degree in International Studies from Durham University (UK) and worked as a Research Associate at Northumbria University in the UK where she was involved in the delivery of a large EU-funded research project (called emBRACE) aimed at developing a unified framework for community resilience for Europe. In this role, Belinda explored community resilience to flooding in England, which involved working with community Flood Action Groups and leading a social network analysis research sub-component. Belinda has also worked as a policy analyst for the UK and Australian governments.