Dr. Patrizia Isabelle Duda
Israel
Patrizia Isabelle Duda is a Minerva Postdoctoral Scientist (Max Planck Society) conducting research at University College London (UCL), UK, and Tel Aviv University, Israel. She is continuing her research on Informal Disaster Governance and its operationalisation. She is also working on a new project relating to Space (Health) Risks and Disasters (see: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/risk-disaster-reduction/space-health-risks-researc...).
Professional experience
Before shifting to disaster management and science, Patrizia spent over 15 years working and conducting academic research in business management and international security and counter-terrorism, notably with Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), IDC Herzliya, the German-Israeli Chamber of Commerce, the Israeli Ministry of Health, The World Bank, IsraAID, and various start-ups.
Today, she still works as a consultant for corporate and non-governmental clients, particularly on questions relating to sustainability. Notable clients include the Financial Times, Google, Tesla, and the WorldBank.
Patrizia is further affiliated with the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine (WADEM), The Chief of Staff Association, the UK Polar Network (UKPN), YANA (Yale Alumni Nonprofit Alliance), and she is the founder of ADECA (Arctic Disaster Early Career Association) and a co-founder of Svalbard Social Science Initiative (SSSI).
Education
Patrizia did her PhD at University College London (UCL), Faculty for Mathematical & Physical Sciences, Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR) where she developed the concept of IDG.
Israel
- Place of affiliation
Resilience and Wellbeing
- Coping with Stress
- Individual, Community and National Resilience
Emergency and Disaster Management
- Medical Management in Mass Disasters
- Humanitarian Action
- Duda, P.I.; Kelman, I. (2023) Informal Disaster Diplomacy. Societies, 13, 8. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc13010008
- Harris, M., Duda, P. I., Kelman, I., & Glick, N. (2022). Addressing Disaster and Health Risks for Sustainable Outer Space. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.4668
- Duda, P. I., Kelman, I., Glick, N., Sokolenko, V., Poussenkova, N., & Nikitina, E. (2022). Disaster risk perceptions and multinational cooperation in Barentsburg, Svalbard. Polar Record, 58. E6. doi:10.1017/S003224742200002X
- Kontar, Y. Y., Ismail-Zadeh, A., Berkman, P. A., Duda, P. I., Gluckman, P., Kelman, I., & Murray, V. (2021). Knowledge exchange through science diplomacy to assist disaster risk reduction. Progress in Disaster Science, 11, 100188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2021.100188
- Duda, P. I., Kelman, I., & Glick, N. (2020). Informal disaster governance. Politics and Governance, 8(4), 375–385. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i4.3077
- Kelman, I., Sydnes, A. K., Duda, P. I., Nikitina, E., & Webersik, C. (2020). Norway-Russia disaster diplomacy for Svalbard. Safety Science, 130, 104896. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2020.104896
- Saville, S., Brode-Roger, D., Albert, M., Ferguson, L., Vindal Ødegaard, C., Sokolíčková, Z., Iversen, L., La Cour, E., Meyer, A., & Duda, P. I. (2020). Social sciences in the Arctic and beyond. Eco Magazine: Environment Coastal & Offshore, Special Polar Issue, 126–130. https://bit.ly/2MvcPEw
- Duda, P. I. (2019). Informal disaster governance in the Arctic. In D. R. Menezes, & H. N. Nicol (Eds.), The North American Arctic (pp. 289–308). UCL Press. https://bit.ly/2JGibf7
- Duda, P. I., & Kelman, I. (2019). Arctic disaster risk reduction and response as triumph? In N. Sellheim, Y. V. Zaika, & I. Kelman (Eds.), Arctic triumph (pp. 147–162). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05523-3_9
- Duda, P. I. (2017). Arcticness: In the making of the beholder. In I. Kelman (Ed.), Arcticness (pp. 40–47). UCL Press. https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88283
