Timeline: August 2023
Project partner(s): Lake Macquarie City Council
Funding: The symposium was funded by the Australian Government under its Black Summer Bushfire Recovery Funding and Lake Macquarie City Council.
Project summary: Leadrrr designed and delivered a workshop at the Lake Macquarie GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) creative industries symposium on Risk and Recovery. The workshop we delivered to a diverse audience of arts administrators, practitioners, curators, council members, and other community group representatives in the Lake Macquarie region focused on an introduction to mapping in disaster contexts for creative communities, including mapping practices of geographic information systems (GIS), counter cartographies, and participatory mapping (e.g., drawing on paper maps together).

Timeline: 2020-2021
Project partner(s): United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth; Natural Hazards Centre, University of Colorado
Funding: The Stockholm Environment Institute
Project summary: During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Leadrrr collaborated with the United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth (UNMGCY) on the production of ‘The Pandemic Diaries’. This initiative was part of UNMGCY’s 'Asia Pacific Researchers, Practitioners, Policy-Makers in Dialogue with Children and Youth Project'’, which supported UMGCY Young Researchers and Young Fellows for DRR to conduct policy analysis and participatory action research with children and youth in their local communities, with the goal of capturing their perspectives and experiences of disasters throughout the Asia Pacific. The 17 diaries in this collection have been written by children and young people from countries across the Asia Pacific region, including Nepal, Fiji, Australia, Bhutan, Pakistan, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and the Solomon Islands. With the guidance and support of the UNMGCY Young Fellows, each diary author has documented their personal experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://www.preventionweb.net/publication/pandemic-diaries-amplifying-voices-asia-pacific-children-and-youth-global-covid-19

Timeline: 2022
Project partner(s): NSW Rural Fire Service, Barbara Ryan (STEM education specialist), Denne Dempsey (communications and media specialist)
Funding: NSW Rural Fire Service
Project summary: To support the implementation of the new Australian Fire Danger Rating System, NSW RFS commissioned Leadrrr to develop teaching and learning resources for Stage 3 students in NSW. Drawing on our extensive research into how children understand and interpret fire danger ratings, we developed a set of curriculum-aligned teaching and learning resources that respect children’s ways of knowing and position them as active participants in bushfire risk management. A highlight of this project was the design and production of a child-friendly fire danger ratings poster that can be displayed in schools and classrooms around Australia. The teaching and learning materials and supplementary resources can be downloaded here.

Timeline: 2020 - 2022
Project partner(s): NSW Rural Fire Service; 360 Entertainment, Triple Zero Australia Working Group
Funding: NSW Rural Fire Service
Project summary: To help ensure that children in NSW have the opportunity to learn about Triple Zero from a young age, the New South Wales Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS) teamed up with 360 Entertainment and Leadrrr to produce the Triple Zero Classroom Challenge. The Triple Zero Classroom Challenge is a comprehensive educational resource that provides children with the essential knowledge and skills they need to become competent, confident and responsible users of the Triple Zero emergency service number. For this project, Leadrrr provided technical guidance on the objectives, structure and content of the resource; developed training materials for RFS members; and designed teacher-delivered lessons to support and consolidate student learning in the classroom. The program was launched by the Minister for Emergency Services and Resilience, Steph Cooke in August 2022 at Wentworth Primary School. You can learn more about the Triple Zero Classroom Challange here and here.

Timeline: 2021 -2022

Project Partner(s): NSW Rural Fire Service

Funding: NSW Rural Fire Service

Project Summary: Leadrrr was commissioned by the NSW RFS to lead the design of a comprehensive teacher professional development course to support the state-wide delivery of Project Firestorm, an integrated STEM unit of work for Stage 3 students. To design the course, we convened a cross-sectoral multidisciplinary advisory group who worked with us to define course objectives, develop course structure and content, and map out an implementation strategy. The 9.5 hour course has been accredited by the NSW Education Standards Authority and is now being delivered to teachers in metropolitan and regional areas across NSW. For more information about the course go to the list of NESA accredited professional development courses or contact Community.Engagement@rfs.nsw.gov.au