About Us

The Platform builds on a substantial history of collaborative and multi-disciplinary natural hazards resilience research undertaken as part of the Resilience to Nature's Challenges National Science Challenge (RNC) (2014–2024) and the Natural Hazards Research Platform (2009–2019). 

The Platform aims to secure, and build on, the national research strength and depth established under these research efforts, while balancing this with a future-focused research strategy matched to national priorities. 

The Platform's establishment team has worked to a tight timeline to determine Platform strategic goals and research direction.  

During October – December 2024 we held a series of engagement workshops with end-users, to understand their desired outcomes in the long-term, medium-term and short-term. This fed into the draft Outcomes Framework and informed research workshops in January and February 2025. A parallel engagement process has taken place with the Resilience Challenge kaupapa Māori researcher cohort, some of their iwi and hapū collaborators, and the National Iwi Chairs’ Forum.

We will be running further research workshops as we develop the details of our science themes and related research and capability areas. These will likely be held over June - August 2025. Sign up to receive newsletter updates so you hear about these workshops when they are announced.  

Our Establishment Advisory Group (EAG) is chaired by Dame Juliet Gerrard, former Prime Minister’s Chief Science Adviser. Dame Juliet is joined by representatives from key user groups defined by MBIE.