Rowena Hill

Experts Meeting: Home/Family and Climate Change
Working Paper | Reaching Beyond Mitigation and Adaptation: Using Resilience Structures and Psychological Theory to Plan and Manage the Impacts of a Changing Climate in our Homes and Communities

Rowena Hill is a Professor of Psychology in the School of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University. Her work builds opportunities to translate evidence and research into policy and
increase knowledge exchange between academics, communities, and organisations. As an active researcher, Rowena’s research areas focus on emergency responders and emergency and
disaster management. Her interests can be clustered around the facets of collective action, communication of risk, and humanitarian assistance in relation to psychological health. She is
currently the embedded scientist supporting the Climate Change (Civil Contingencies) and Adverse Weather portfolio for the National Police Chiefs Council. She is an ESRC Policy Fellow to
the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on Climate Change, is the Honorary Research Lead for the Fire Fighters Charity and is the Chair of the national Academic
Collaboration, Evaluation and Research Group for the National Fire Chiefs Council.