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19.01.2022 VOLUNTEER RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION MESSAGING was another shining light in quality offerings from EMPA. If you missed it, you missed a polished and information packed hour on how research into the expectations of volunteers gives critical direction to your communications and engagement with them. Pat’s research team was one of the winners at the 2020 EMPA Awards for Excellence in Emergency Communications.... The next EMPA webinar is on Thursday 27th August when South Australia's Country Fire Service will present an award-winning bushfire preparation program - book now! https://empa.org.au/empawebinar/upcoming/

14.01.2022 Our next seminar is coming up and it's going to be a cracker! Professor Jim McLennan will talk about how stress affects the decision-making of people as a natural hazard gets close. Join us next week - Thursday, October 1 at 11am (AEST).... Register here: https://empa.org.au/empawebinar/upcoming/

13.01.2022 Research just published on engagement and dialogue by Australian agency social media provides three key takeaways that can inform practice... https://www.sciencedirect.com//arti/pii/S2212420919318072

05.01.2022 Country Fire Service in South Australia has a highly effective community bushfire preparation program - find out more about it on Thursday, with Kathy Baklan from SACFS, at the next EMPA webinar at 11am (AEST). #EMPAwinner #GetReady https://empa.org.au/empawebinar/upcoming

04.01.2022 If volunteers are a big part of your community engagement and internal comms strategies, you need to be at our first post-conference webinar next Tuesday! EMPA Award Highly Commended project leader Ass. Prof Patrick Dunlop talks about his team's research on: Motivators, experiences & emotions: being an SES volunteer. Just what you need to help your volunteers help you!... https://empa.org.au/empawebinar/upcoming/

03.01.2022 A message from the Chair, Barbara Ryan: We're very sorry to announce that EMPA founding chair, Peter Rekers, has stepped down from the Board of Directors of EMPA. Peter has been a life force of EMPA since 2006, when he and I, with Alastair Wilson from EMA, created the organisation as a forum for emergency communicators and researchers to share knowledge and lessons. Peter's imagination and energy, and his knack for meeting and drawing in new members of the EMPA family from a...ll around the world is one of the reasons EMPA is such a well-respected and effective organisation. We wish Peter all the best in this sabbatical - as an EMPA Fellow, Peter will be welcomed to be part of EMPA activities and we hope to see him at future events. For now, he is taking a much-needed change of pace as manager of CrisisReady social media influencers Maggie and George, and of course, CrisisReady itself. We wish Peter all the best.

02.01.2022 And that's a wrap, what a week it has been! Today we heard from Christchurch City Council Mayor, Lianne Dalziel on emphatic leadership and the #Christchurch terror attacks, Jeremy Hillman Resilience NSW shared lessons from six months of #NSWbushfires recovery & Alicia Smith Apunipima Cape York Health Council explained how they got the #COVID19 message out to Indigenous communities. Thank you to all three for sharing your lessons with #EMPA2020! We awarded our final award cate...gory today, for Research excellence. Taking out top prize was a project that addressed conflicting cues during emergencies, by Dr Paula Dootson, A/Prof Dominique Greer, Prof Vivienne Tippett & Dr Sophie Miller QUT (Queensland University of Technology) QUT Business School QUT School of Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC. Highly commended was a study that investigated sustainable volunteering by Dr Darja Kragt, Dr Aleksandra Luksyte, A/Prof Patrick Dunlop, Dr Djurre Holtrop, Prof Marylène Gagné & Hawa Muhammad Farid UWA Research Curtin University Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC. Congratulations to all award winners! To close we heard from our Chair Barbara Ryan, who spoke about the three key messages that resonated with her throughout the presentations all week. 1) To deliver what matters as communicators, we need information & data 2) Stand in the shoes of those we're talking to 3) The local approach - establish trust Finally, a big thanks to all our delegates & speakers. We are committed to emergency communication learning & while we'd rather meet in person, we're glad we could hold the conference online this year. See you properly in 2021, or of course in #Wellington for #EMPANZ in October. The support of our sponsors is key to ensuring we can keep the registration price to a minimum - shout out to Australian Department of Home Affairs, Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC and our awards sponsor AIDR.