My research interests combine three fields: educational technology, climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction.

Finding a research topic - I contacted Dr. Pablo Suarez , who is Associate Director of Programs with the International Red Cross Climate Centre about the research gaps and needs. Dr. Suarez and the Climate Centre have been doing work using video-mediated strategies as a tool for integrating climate adaptation approaches into participatory disaster risk reduction programming. He indicated that the evidence base to support these strategies was weak, and that this might be an area for study and research. My research focus has evolved from my discussions with Pablo, and my own reading and reflection about research gaps and needs.

I have developed a concept map to explain my research topic, it can be found in this section.

My initial thoughts were to design and test a learning system, and I have since come to learn about design based research, which seems to fit with my interests. This is a great resource site : Design-based Research EPSS (the material is from 2006, but none the less, it is also a model of a media rich resource design)