MESH Researcher Mars Briones Awarded Place at Future Earth’s Pathways Autumn School on „Transformative Research for a Just World and a Habitable Planet“
Mars Briones, doctoral researcher at the Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH) hub, who is researching sociocultural dimensions of disaster preparedness and risk reduction in the Eastern Visayas, Philippines, has been awarded a place at Future Earth’s Pathways Autumn School on „Transformative Research for a Just World and a Habitable Planet“. His current research project Images, Stories, and Spatialities of the Island Hazardscape is supervised by „Sharing a Planet in Peril“ (SAPP) member Kate Rigby and investigates the Eastern Visayas region in the Philippines, particularly after the 2013 typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan). It explores how cultural expressions like images and stories can offer new ways of thinking about and preparing for disasters.
