Rate My Professor James Mcgregor

James McGregor serves as a Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia. His research specializes in natural hazards, disaster resilience, and the integration of land use planning to mitigate risks from environmental disasters such as bushfires and floods. McGregor has played a key role in developing the Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index as part of the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre, collaborating with researchers including Melissa Parsons, Ian Reeve, Graham Marshall, Richard Stayner, Judith McNeill, Peter Hastings, Sonya Glavac, and Phil Morley. This index represents the first national-scale assessment of disaster resilience in Australia, employing indicators to evaluate coping and adaptive capacities at local government levels.

McGregor's publications include 'Disaster resilience in Australia: A geographic assessment using an index of coping and adaptive capacity' (2021), 'Local Government Capacity and Land Use Planning for Natural Hazards: A Comparative Evaluation of Australian Local Government Areas' (2022, with Melissa Parsons and Sonya Glavac), 'THE AUSTRALIAN NATURAL DISASTER RESILIENCE INDEX: ASSESSING AUSTRALIA’S DISASTER RESILIENCE AT A NATIONAL SCALE' (2017), 'Top-down assessment of disaster resilience: a conceptual framework using coping and adaptive capacities' (2016), 'The Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index: Conceptual Framework and Indicator Approach' (2016), 'The Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index' (2015), and 'THE ARCHITECT AS STORYTELLER: Making Places in John Hedjuk's Masques' (2009). His work on ResearchGate has accumulated 482 citations across these seven publications. In addition, McGregor has delivered research seminars at UNE, such as 'Fiction for the Creeping City: A Literary Geography of the Postwar Melbourne Novel' (2015), and served as a course coordinator for graduate programs in Planning and Management of Natural Hazards.