About me
Jennifer Spinney is trained as a sociocultural anthropologist (PhD, Western U 2019) and works as an Assistant Professor and the Undergraduate Area Coordinator in the Disaster & Emergency Management program at York University in Toronto, Canada. Adopting primarily qualitative research methodologies, she explores the connections between groups of people living and working at the intersections of environment and society, such as members of the general public, disaster practitioners and meteorological experts, through all phases of disaster, from warning and preparedness, to exposure and response, to impact, as well as the timeframe during which people are recovering and rebuilding their lives. She draws on political ecology, vulnerability and social equity frames, mostly, and focuses her analyses on the discursive and relational nature of sense-making, risk perception, prioritization and the communication of risk, as well as the structures and processes that influence protective action options, decision-making and mental health and well-being.
