Jennie Phillips
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Jennie Phillips is an academic practitioner specialized in digitally-enabled human behaviour during crisis, and risk measurement and resilience development in complex virtual online networks. She has her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, and is the director of the Digital Global Health & Humanitarianism Lab (DGHHLab). She has worked as a post-doctoral research fellow with Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research (York University) and doctoral fellow with the Citizen Lab (University of Toronto). She teaches at York University in the Disaster & Emergency Management program, and consults nationally and internationally in education, innovation, training and research. Clients span private, public, academic and non-profit sectors to include the Privy Council Office/Prime Minister’s Office of Canada, Global Affairs Canada, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Dalhousie University.
Research Mission:
To enable and/or build the capacity of communities, organizations and greater society to manage and adapt to crisis in a digital age
Research Focus:
The digital transformation of society in crises, with a focus on risk, resilience and impact
Areas of interest include:
social infrastructure
disaster and emergency management, and humanitarian response
complex networks like digital response networks
networked resilience
digital technology
social innovation
risk management (risk perception, digital risk)
crisis information management
informal/bottom-up organization