We Are All Disaster Survivors Now

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COVID-19 emergency unit with quarantined patients, PPE-clad healthcare workers, and signs reading Wear PPE.

We have hosted more than 40 events since the Crisis Communications Network was launched in 2021. There are too many highlights to list here. But for me personally, the chance to interview one of my crisis and disaster management heroes, Professor Lucy Easthope, is right up there. Lucy is the UK’s foremost authority on recovering … Continue reading We Are All Disaster Survivors Now

Genesis: Looking Back at the First Five Years of the Crisis Communications Network

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Child on trail beside signs reading Year 1 2019 First Steps Nursery; Year 2 2020 Exploring Learning; Year 3 2021; Year 4 2022 Growing Strong; Year 5 2023 Thriving New Adventures

It started with a simple idea. By late summer 2020 the world felt like a very different place from the one we had known only months before. All the old rhythms of life had stopped but nothing had yet replaced them.  The atmosphere was saturated with uncertainty, dread and a genuine sense of chaos. Confidence … Continue reading Genesis: Looking Back at the First Five Years of the Crisis Communications Network