CONVERGE Training Modules

This Training Module focuses on the broader ethical considerations for conducting research in a disaster setting.

This Training Module focuses on ways to collect and share perishable hazards and disaster data.

This Training Module describes emotionally challenging research and highlights the ways that recognizing researchers’ emotions can lead to more ethical and methodologically sound research practices in the context of extreme events.

This Training Module focuses on culturally competent research and offers guidance on how hazards and disaster researchers can build cultural competence.

This Training Module focuses on mental health outcomes associated with disasters, with a particular emphasis on risk factors over time that make certain populations vulnerable to poor disaster mental health outcomes.

This Training Module describes historical and contemporary manifestations of settler colonialism and the resulting impacts on and responses of Indigenous Peoples. It highlights how Indigenous sovereignty—or the right of Indigenous Peoples to govern themselves—can help build resilience to hazards and disasters.

This Training Module introduces users to Institutional Review Board (IRB) procedures and offers guidance on how to work with the IRB to ensure ethical extreme events research.

This CONVERGE Training Module examines how social systems influence the vulnerability and capacities of older adults in disasters. It also highlights ways to engage this population in research, community-engaged planning, and emergency management practice.

This module describes the concept of positionality in the context of hazards and disaster research and practice and highlights how understanding your own positionality can lead to more ethical and methodologically sound disaster work.

This module bridges public health and hazards and disaster research by showcasing case studies with important implications for public health.

This Training Module focuses on the reciprocal relationship between researchers and disaster affected communities, with an emphasis on providing mutual benefits for both the people involved with and affected by hazards, as well as those participating in disaster research.

This Training Module focuses on social vulnerability to hazards and disasters, with an emphasis on population groups that have been identified in the literature as especially at risk to the adverse effects of extreme events.

This module describes gender-based violence in the context of field research and provides an in-depth exploration of misconceptions, real life scenarios, and strategies for safe fieldwork practices.