Dear friend
Invitation:
Centre for Disaster Management and Hazards Research 2015: Training Exercises for
Disaster
Resilience
We would like to invite you to participate in our CDMHR annual conference on Training Exercises for Disaster Resilience, taking place at Coventry University, UK on 16 and 17 July 2015. Please
note there is a small charge for most delegates. Please visit the
conference website for registration.
Keynote speakers:
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Prof Edward Borodzicz -
Simulation exercises are fundamental to developing crisis capability
·
Ron Mountain - COMAH2015 - An opportunity for enhanced community
resilience to major accidents in Great Britain?
With the increasing number and scale of natural and man-made disasters, the building of disaster resilience has become crucial from local to national levels so as to allow communities to be better prepared for uncertainty.
Training and exercising are essential for effective disaster management and these may range from traditional table top exercises to the computer aided learning environment and to full scale exercises. Training and
exercising are regularly used to develop, maintain and share the knowledge, skills and attitudes for Emergency service personnel and they have been recognised to be an effective vehicle for enhancing disaster resilience. Challenges remain however, in terms
of the level of fidelity and in validation and evaluation. This conference aims to facilitate discussion in the following themes:
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Approaches to delivering disaster risk reduction training in local communities and schools;
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Best practice of training and/or exercising carried out in the emergency services;
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Innovative methods for training exercises, from low fidelity to virtual world;
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Methodologies for evaluating training and exercises: assessing technical and non-technical skills, and learning at individual team and organisational levels
The conference opens a channel for both academic and professionals to share best practice in planning, designing and delivering training and exercises for the emergency services. It also provides an opportunity for
analysing range of approaches to enhance the effectiveness of training and exercising for increasing resilience to disasters.
For further details, please refer to our
conference website, or email conference coordinator Jean-Baptiste Roman ([log in to unmask]).
Kindly regards,
Yung-Fang Chen and Matthew Blackett
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Dr Yung-Fang Chen
Director of Centre for Disaster Management and Hazards Reserach
Senior Lecturer in Disaster Management and Emergency Planning
+44 (0) 24 7688 7654
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Department of Geography, Environment and Disaster Management
Coventry University
Priory Street, Coventry
CV 1 5LW
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