Disaster Risk Reduction and Humanitarianism Society: Academic Outreach Officer

I’m running for Academic Outreach Officer because I want to help make the RDR Society a space where students can engage with the real-world impact of what we study and explore opportunities beyond the classroom.

As a Global Humanitarian Studies BSc student, I’m really interested in how RDR connects to fields like humanitarian response, climate risk, global health, and policy. I’d love to help create more opportunities for students to learn from professionals and explore different career paths.

If elected, I would focus on:

• Career and speaker events - inviting NGO workers, humanitarian professionals, and disaster risk researchers to speak about careers in fields like humanitarian response, climate risk, and development. Events also to help students who may not have tunnel vision on their career path to explore possibilties 

• Skills workshops - organising sessions on things like GIS, data analysis, fieldwork preparation, and research skills that are useful for RDR students

• Academic discussion events - hosting informal talks or student-led discussions on current disasters, humanitarian crises, and climate risks like a weekly news catch-up to keep us all in the loop of global matters 

• Connecting students with opportunities - sharing internships, volunteering roles, research opportunities, and conferences relevant to RDR and humanitarian work