Rowena Hill

Rowena's research areas focus on the psychological risks and impacts f emergencies and disasters for emergency responders, their families and the public, as well as emergency management or resilience structures. She has worked with the emergency services and associated professions at regional and national level for 20 years. Her research interests have focussed on the Covid-19 pandemic as the embedded scientist for the C19 National Foresight Group (https://www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/nottingham-civic-exchange/c19-national-foresight-group) and she is currently on an ESRC Policy Fellowship to the Department of Levelling Up Housing and Communities for Climate Change. Rowena is the inaugural Chair of the National Fire Chiefs Council Academic Collaboration, Evaluation and Research group, a multidisciplinary group designed to facilitate research/evidence informed practice across the fire sector. She is also Honorary Research lead for the Fire Fighters Charity, the UKs national charity for the fire community. She also works alongside other emergency services at national level on disaster and climate change issues such as her role as the embedded scientist for the National Police Chiefs Council for their Adverse Weather and Climate Change (Civil Contingencies) portfolio.