The Resilience Challenge
The Resilience to Nature’s Challenges National Science Challenge is enhancing New Zealand’s ability to anticipate, adapt and thrive in the face of ever-changing natural hazards.
What we do
The challenge
To enhance New Zealand’s resilience to natural hazards.
Science
All over the country our scientists are investigating how we can build New Zealand’s resilience.
Co-creation
Working with stakeholders and end-users to ensure our research is useful and usable.
PhD scholarship
opportunities
We have six PhD scholarships available, under the Multihazard Risk Model theme. The positions are based at different New Zealand universities, depending on topic and supervisor.
Q & A with Dr Bill Fry
Fresh from his Hochstetter lecture tour of Aotearoa, Dr Bill Fry talks about his career path, his latest research on the Kermadec trench, and what’s coming up in the RNC Earthquake-Tsunami theme.
Student profile: Sara Harrison
Sara is doing her PhD under RNC’s Weather & Wildfire theme, carrying out research to contribute to a fairly new type of weather warning system: impact-based forecasts and warnings.
Vacancy: Coordinator role
We’re looking for an experienced, organised and enthusiastic coordinator to join our small team. The successful candidate will be responsible for day-to-day coordination to keep the Resilience Challenge running smoothly. This is a part-time (0.5 FTE) fixed term role to June 2024, based in Lower Hutt.