Rosie Morrison

Dr. Rosie Morrison

Research Fellow (Postdoctoral), Bushfire Evacuation

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Dr. Rosie Morrison is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow focusing on bushfire evacuation behaviour and other disaster responses.

Dr. Rosie Morrison is a Social Science Research Fellow in the School of Engineering at RMIT University. She has a PhD in Behavioural Economics from the University of Edinburgh where she looked at the climate adaptation strategies of smallholders in Kenya. She has also carried out research on risk perceptions and wildfires in Trinidad and Tobago and on human decision-making related to livestock and zoonotic disease risks. Whilst at RMIT she will primarily be working with Dr Erica Kuligowski on her ARC Future Fellowship researching bushfire evacuation behaviour.

Industry experience:
Senior Policy Officer, Climate Change - UK Civil Service

Research fields

  • 3003 Animal production
  • 3009 Veterinary sciences
  • 3709 Physical geography and environmental geoscience
  • 4406 Human geography
  • 4410 Sociology
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