Grants and Awards

Awards

Only a few rare individual scientists/academics/scholars who can be successful without a team. And obviously, I am not one of them. So, I do not fully agree in academic ranking because good disaster sciences are always a result of collective work of committed individuals from peers to research students. However, one might have argued that any alternative recognition might or might not do justice to those who focus on quality teachings and remain unseen by the world.

Regardless, it was a good feeling that your work is being recognized – as I was awarded: “Top Research in the Field of Emergency Management” by the Australian Research Magazine 2023“, 2024, 2025 and 2026. Many disaster scholars deserved to be the one on the List but somehow, they did not categorise themselves to be part of emergency management field under business and management category. So, in a way I was albeit ‘lucky’.

Also, a mixed but still good feeling to be listed as part of top 2% scientist in 2024 and 2025 and the “Science and Health Editor’s Choice Award 2022” for contributions to science-based journalism focusing on disasters and health in The Conversation (ID) in 2022.

Grants and Research Consulting [selected]

See publications from collaborative projects from my ResearchGate! 

Selected research projects

  • Humanitarian cash transfers in Indonesia [2019-2021]
  • Cash transfer and food security in disaster-induced displacement areas during COVID-19 funded by JICA Human Security and COVID-19 [2021-2023]
  • Power, Prestige & Forgotten Values: A Disaster Studies Manifesto
  • Food systems under changing climate in Asia [RSIS NTU’s 1.5m Project 2014-2017]
  • National Implementation study of comprehensive school safety in Indonesia [2020]
  • IFRC and Circle Indonesia Localisation studies in Indonesia [2020-2021]
  • How post-disaster need assessment informs recovery planning and policy in the Pacific – funded by DFAT [2018/2019]
  • Research Grants on Measuring Political will for DRR [EHSE Faculty Grant, Charles Darwin University, RSIS NTU and IRGSC] – On Why do countries succeed or fail in reducing disaster risks? Longitudinal observation of disaster management policy in >100 countries [PI] [2017/2018].
  • Social network and disaster research
  • Urban climate adaptation in Indonesia.
  • Community-based disaster risk reduction
  • Disaster governance in Southeast Asia.
  • Longitudinal observation of child-centred climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in Indonesia
  • Long term observation of disaster recovery in the Asia Pacific
  • Use of Remotely Piloted Air System (RPAS) or drones for risk assessment and disaster response
  • Governance of early warning systems in Indonesia
  • Climate change, environmental migration and human mobility
  • Global disaster thinkers [Independent research project]
  • Tools and Skills for Community Disaster Risk Management [independent research project]
  • Disaster risk reduction policy audit in ASEAN member states at RSIS NTU (PI – since 2016)
  • IIED London/Rockefeller Foundation’s ACCCRN Project [Co-PI with John Taylor, KotaKita.org] 20k [2015]
  • 2014 Research Fellowship at the Australian National University, Canberra [Pending/on hold]
  • 2013 UNICEF Research on Early Childhood Education Budgeting [Co-PI]
  • ACF Research on Sanitation [12k] Co-PI
  • Willis Re Research Fellowship 2011-2012 – Based at Nanyang Technological University;
  • Post-doctoral Fellowship – Rockefeller Foundation’s Asian Cities Climate Change Network [2012-2013]
  • ERIA Research Fellowship 2011 [ERIA WG Economic and Welfare Impacts of Disasters in East Asia and Policy Responses] $7k

Travel Grants

  • 2015 – Full grants travel grants – DAAD Alumni Summer Course – Climate and Nutrition Summer Course at Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany.
  • 2013 Full grants travel grants – DAAD Alumni Summer Course – University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany – Water Security and Management and Topentag Conference in Stuttgart, Germany.
  • 2011 – Full Fellowship for Executive Education on Crisis Management Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge MA Spring 2011.
  • 2010 – Full travel grants: Stockholm Environmental Institute and UNISDR. Asian Writeshop on Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction
  • 2009 – Full travel grants – Changing Governance in Asia – Young scholar workshops, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University, Netherlands.
  • 2009 –  Full travel grants – Garnet PhD School 2009. Venue at the Université Libre de Bruxelles – ULB; EC/Garnet PhD Program.
  • 2006 – BRC Summer Course International Humanitarian Law – Cambridge UK. Full Travel Grants by Hivos &  BRC.

Fellowship awards

  • First Post-doctoral Research Fellowship, Ash Centre, Harvard Kennedy School 2011 (Research on climate adaptation and disaster reduction in Indonesia.)
  • DAAD Awards for PhD Scholarship in Disaster Research at ZEF of University of Bonn and Winner of Profile # 8 for GTIEWS PhD Research at EHS-UNU, Bonn 2007;
  • British Chevening Awards (British Council, UK), 2004
  • First Winner – National Seminar Paper – Indonesian Civil Engineering Communication Forum 1997