DrRebecca McNaught
(She/her)
Rural and Remote Health Research Fellow
Faculty of Medicine and Health
Orcid identifier0000-0002-9393-6398 (opens in a new tab)
- Rural and Remote Health Research FellowFaculty of Medicine and Health
RESEARCH INTERESTs
- Climate change adaptation
- Climate and disaster governance
- Community resilience building
- Community development
- Rural and remote health and wellbeing
- Disaster preparedness, response, recovery and risk reduction
- Public policy
- Collaborative governance
- Inclusive governance and decision making
- Climate and disaster resilient development pathways - including infrastructure
- Gendered dimensions of risk and participation
FUNDED RESEARCH
- GRANTConnecting for impact building, and learning from, a community resilience alliance across the Northern Rivers, NSWNHMRC via HIF1 Jul 2025People funded by this grant:
- McNaught R,
- Park S,
- Bailie R,
- Longman J,
- Tattersall A
- GRANTReviewing and improving community group support to the mental health and wellbeing of flood affected Northern Rivers communitiesNSW Health1 Jul 2025People funded by this grant:
- McNaught R,
- Longman J
- GRANTReimagining resilience in disaster scholarship, policy and practice in Australia: lessons from building a community resilience alliance in the Northern Rivers, NSW.Sydney Environment Institute1 Jan 2025People funded by this grant:
- McNaught R,
- Haworth B
- GRANTThe Significance of Sentimental Objects in Trauma and Healing: Loss, Recovery and Resilience in Flood-Affected CommunitiesBrain and Mind Centre1 Jan 2025People funded by this grant:
- Feakins CM,
- McNaught R
- GRANTDevelop an indicator to track climate change impact on health inequity to inform policy change: Based on multi-dimensional big data and multidisciplinary climate risk assessmentOffice of Global and Research Engagement1 Jul 2024
- GRANTHealthy Environments And Lives (HEAL) - National Research Network on Human Health and Environmental ChangeNational Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2021People funded by this grant:
- Bailie R,
- Rychetnik L,
- Bell KC,
- Matthews V,
- McNaught R