Emmanuel Raju
Associate Professor
Global Health Section
Øster Farimagsgade 5 opg. B, Postboks 2099
1014 København K
Member of:
Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research
Research
Emmanuel ia currently Director of the Copenhagen Centre for Disaster Research- inter-institutional research center COPE linking disaster research and education (Master of Disaster Management). Emmanuel's research interests include disaster risk reduction; disaster recovery; and governance. He also hold a Visiting Associate Professor at the African Centre for Disaster Studies, North-West University, South Africa.
He also works on issues on Disasters and Memory; International frameworks on Disasters and is interested in issues of integration of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. He has conducted research in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, South Africa and Denmark.
From 2014-2016, he was part of Changing Disasters research project at the University of Copenhagen and was on the Core organising team of the North Eurpoean Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies (NEEDS) in 2015 and 2017.
Emmanuel holds a PhD from Lund University, Sweden. His PhD focussed on Disaster Recovery Coordination post-tsunami in India.
Emmanuel has been chosen for the Integrated Reasearch on Disaster Risk Young Scientists Programme from July 2017 onwards.
Research Projects at University of Copenhagen (Since 2014)
2014-2016: Post-doc on the Changing Disasters Project
2016-2018: Responsible for Research Work Packagaes with Assoc. Prof Kristian Lauta on an EU project 'Enhancing synergies for disaster prevention in the EU'.
2017- Disaster Memories, A Study in India
2019-2021: Collaborative Project funded by FORMAS Sweden- Global Attribution Models, Mediation and Mobilisation in Sweden and Spain. Lead Institution- Lund University, Sweden
2020-2022: Learning from Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction in India and Chile: A collaborative research agenda- Networking Grant between Research Center for integrated disaster and risk management (CIGIDEN) and the Copenhagen Centre for Disaster Research
2020-2024: Work Package Leader of the EU Horizon 2020 project "LINKS: Strengthening links between technologies and society for European disaster resilience", with 16 partners from 7 European countries and Japan. Total budget: €5.2 M.
Editorial Experience
Co-Editor, Disaster Prevention and Management, An Emerald Journal
Theme Editor, UCL Open Environment
Member- Editorial Board- Journal of International Humanitarian Action
Member- Editorial Board for Asia In Focus (a journal for young scholars) from 2014-2017.
Reviewer- Disasters; Disaster Prevention and Management; Asia in Focus; Culture Inbound; International Journal of Disaster Risk Science; Jamba- Journal of Disaster Risk Studies; Sustainability; International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Co-Editor- Special Issue on Disaster Risk Governance (2020): https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/pages/view/nextissues#disastergovernance
Awarded Outstanding Reviewer for 2017 by Disaster Prevention and Management, Elsevier Publications
Teaching
Emmanuel currently leads 2 core courses and one elective on the Master of Disaster Management at the University of Copenhagen.
Courses:
Introduction to Disaster Risk Management: From Theory to Practice
Disaster Recovery Planning and Development
Vulnerability and Risk Assessment Methods (Field work course in Sri Lanka).
Emmanuel has been teaching in many countries (Sweden, Denmark, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Ghana).
Practice
Emmanuel is part of the personnel roster of the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) as Disaster Risk Reduction expert and was deployed to Myanmar in 2014-2015. Recently he worked as a DRR expert in Karlstad in Sweden in July 2017. He also on the pool of experts for disasters with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Cesent Societies; the Danish Red Cross and Swedish Cross.
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Synthesis report of existing legal, policy and science approaches in relation to DRR and CCA (Deliverable 2.1): National Report - Denmark
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Technology and information sharing in disaster relief
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Disaster Knowledge Gaps: Exploring the Interface between Science and Policy for Disaster Risk Reduction in Europe
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