Global Post-Disaster Reconstruction and Management, Certificate (online)
Offered in collaboration with The Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters (CRSCAD) at the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies
This non-credit certificate program offers topics in the theory and practice of disaster preparedness, mitigation and post-disaster reconstruction. It also presents a unique opportunity for participants of various accreditations to develop not only an expertise in a variety of components of post-disaster recovery and reconstruction, but also the broader skills associated with project and performance management that can be utilized in a wide array of faculties. The aim is to develop a national and international capacity to address the horrendous consequences of the various forms of disaster which millions of people face every year, everywhere.
This program consists of four required and two elective courses. You must successfully complete five courses to receive the certificate. Upon successful completion of each course, you will receive the CEUs (Continuing Education Units) indicated for a total of 17.5 or 16 CEUs, depending on which courses you select.
Faculty
Adenrele Awotona
Adenrele Awotona is a professor of architecture, international development and urban studies. He is a specialist in disaster studies and the director of the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters. He has been a principal investigator on major projects funded by various agencies, including the Boston Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Department of Education, the British Government Department for International Development, the United Nations Center for Human Settlements, the United Nations Development Program, and the European Union. Through research, consultancy and teaching, he has professional experience in several countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, South America, and the Caribbean.
He earned his Doctorate degree from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. He is the former Dean of the College of Public and Community Service at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Professor Awotona has published extensively.
Email: Adenrele.awotona@umb.edu
Elizabeth Bury
Elizabeth Bury is an independent consultant and an Associate at the Collins Center for Public Management at UMass Boston. She has two decades experience in the fields of program planning, evaluation and performance management. She specializes in advising government agencies and nonprofit program managers on the use of performance indicator systems to enable results based management. With strong expertise in facilitation and participatory methods, she has led numerous workshops involving program managers and stakeholders in creating strategic frameworks and performance measurement plans for projects in a wide variety of program areas. She has also overseen a variety of evaluations involving both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, including sophisticated econometric analyses, large surveys and structured program reviews. Ms. Bury also has a strong background developing and delivering training on performance management issues. She has taught previously at West Virginia University and Community College of Micronesia.
Ms. Bury holds a Master’s Degree in Regional Development Planning from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology and Psychology from Dartmouth College. She also completed a Diversity Management Certificate from NTL Institute and holds a US Government Secret Security Clearance.
Email: betsy.bury@umb.edu
Jennifer Janisch Clifford
Jennifer Clifford is an environmental and natural resource economist specializing in economic valuation, resource conservation, and incentive instruments. She has worked on several water projects, including coastal zone and coral reef protection for the government of Belize, benefit cost analysis of the Charles River cleanup, and a major contingent valuation study of the Miyun Reservoir for the Chinese government. Currently she is teaching semester-long courses in environmental economics, natural resources and sustainable development, environmental policy, and economic theory at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, Harvard Summer School, and Harvard University extension school’s graduate program in Sustainability & Environmental Management and presenting environmental economics seminars for intensive executive education programs at the Kennedy School of Government.
Email: Jennifer.clifford@umb.edu
Elaine Enarson
Elaine Enarson is a disaster sociologist whose personal experience in hurricane Andrew sparked her extensive work on gender, vulnerability and community resilience in the U.S. and Canada. The author of Woods-Working Women: Sexual Integration in the U.S. Forest Service (1984), she was the first director of the women’s studies program at the University of Nevada, served as coordinator of the Nevada Network against Domestic Violence, and has taught sociology and women’s studies in Nevada and Colorado. She consults with U.N. agencies, was lead course developer of a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) course on social vulnerability, and initiated and directed a grassroots risk assessment project with women in the Caribbean, as well as the on-line Gender and Disaster Sourcebook. In 2006, Elaine was the recipient of the Mary Fran Myers Gender and Disaster Award.
Email: enarsone@gmail.com
Linda Hartling
Linda Hartling, Ph.D., who conducted the earliest research assessing the experience of humiliation, is an expert on relational-cultural theory. She is the past Associate Director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, Boston, Massachusetts, the largest women’s research center in the United States.
Email: Lhartling@humiliationstudies.org
Tim Kress
Tim Kress has been an enterprise project manager, technical advisor and consultant for the past 16 years in the communications, banking, and software industries. He specializes in helping professionals and organizations develop their project management capabilities.
Tim has taught project management for over 9 years. He teaches the classroom as well as the online version of Practical Project Management.
Tim holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a MBA from Johnson & Wales University. He is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute.
Email: timothy.kress@umb.edu
Guest speakers
Michael Britton
Michael Britton, Ed.D., Ph.D., is a practicing psychologist and scholar who conducted interview research with retired U.S. military commanders/planners who had dealt with nuclear weapons during the Cold War, exploring their experience of the moral responsibilities involved. He has lectured internationally on the implications of neuroscience for our global future, and provides training for conflict resolution specialists on applications of neuroscience to their work.
Ulrich Spalthoff
Ulrich (Uli) Spalthoff (Dr. rer. nat.) Director of Media Development for Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies. Former Director of Advanced Technologies at Alcatel-Lucent in Germany and France. As Director of Advanced Technologies, his leadership included mentoring start-ups and consulting high-tech companies in IT, telecommunication and semiconductor industries from countries all over the world.
