We're excited to announce the successful Capability Retention Grant projects. These grants were designed to retain essential capability in the natural hazards and resilience research system, and make progress on priority work during the Platform's establishment phase. The projects all support students, post-doctoral positions and other early career researchers..
Read about the projects here
The Platform establishment team synthesised the ideas we received at our engagement events in early 2025, and brought that direction together in a draft Platform Plan which was delivered to MBIE at the end of March. This is a significant milestone, and we thank you all for being part of the process.
Read more about the research structure contained in the draft Plan, the thinking behind it, and next steps.
In our latest newsletter we welcome our new Platform Science Leadership team, and introduce the projects funded through our Capability Retention Grants.
We also share a public version of our Platform Plan, and recap recent engagement activities.
In this newsletter we farewell our friend and colleague Distinguished Professor David Johnston.
We also recap recent engagement and design activities and reveal our new research structure - part of the draft Platform Plan recently submitted to MBIE.
We will be running further workshops (likely in late July – early August 2025) to ‘deep-dive’ into the research themes, and some of the capability areas that need to get started early.
We hope to announce dates for these workshops via our next newsletter, so make sure you're signed up to receive these.