Dr Iraphne Childs
Honorary Senior Fellow
School of the Environment
Researcher biography
Dr. Childs has taught into several courses in GPEM/SEES and has been involved with research projects in the Queensland Centre for Population Research and on slum upgrading in Southeast Asia. She was previously Senior Lecturer in Geography at QUT where she directed the Geography program and taught in Human, Australian and Asia-Pacific Geography and Environmental Hazards. During 2010 she was Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Resources at QUT. Dr. Childs previously held teaching and research positions in the former Dept. of Geography at UQ, the East-West Center in Hawaii. She holds a Masters degree in Japanese language and has lived and worked in Japan for several years. She volunteers with the Australian Red Cross in Queensland and over the past few years has been deployed with Red Cross to assist in evacuation centres in several parts of Queensland during cylcone and flood emergencies.
Book Chapters
Minnery, John and Childs, Iraphne (2017). Natural hazards governance in Australia. Oxford research encyclopedia of natural hazard science. (pp. 1-37) New York, NY, United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199389407.013.241
Childs, I. R.W., Auliciems, A., Hundloe, T. J. and McDonald, G. T. (1988). Socio-economic impacts of climate change: potential for decision-making in Redcliffe, Queensland. Greenhouse: planning for climate change. (pp. 648-664) edited by G.I. Pearman. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004629714_052
Journal Articles
Hoque, Muhammad Al-Amin, Phinn, Stuart, Roelfsema, Chris and Childs, Iraphne (2018). Assessing tropical cyclone risks using geospatial techniques. Applied Geography, 98, 22-33. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2018.07.004
Maher, Mary, Childs, Iraphne and Wadley, David (2018). Testimonial: Dr Elise Lindgren. Australian Geographer, 49 (2), 339-340. doi: 10.1080/00049182.2018.1450612
Hoque, Muhammad Al-Amin, Phinn, Stuart, Roelfsema, Chris and Childs, Iraphne (2017). Modelling tropical cyclone risks for present and future climate change scenarios using geospatial techniques. International Journal of Digital Earth, 11 (3), 1-18. doi: 10.1080/17538947.2017.1320595
Hoque, Muhammad Al-Amin, Phinn, Stuart, Roelfsema, Chris and Childs, Iraphne (2017). Tropical cyclone disaster management using remote sensing and spatial analysis: a review. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 22, 345-354. doi: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.02.008
Hoque, Muhammad Al-Amin, Phinn, Stuart, Roelfsema, Chris and Childs, Iraphne (2016). Assessing tropical cyclone impacts using object-based moderate spatial resolution image analysis: a case study in Bangladesh. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 37 (22), 5320-5343. doi: 10.1080/01431161.2016.1239286
Harte, Wendy, Sowman, Merle, Hastings, Peter and Childs, Iraphne (2015). Barriers to risk reduction: Dontse Yakhe, South Africa. Disaster Prevention and Management, 24 (5), 651-669. doi: 10.1108/DPM-03-2015-0056
Childs, Iraphne R. W. and Berg, Kathryn (2015). The Australian Geography Competition: an overview of participation and results 2004–2013. Geographical Education, 28, 50-58.
Minnery, John, Argo, Teti, Winarso, Haryo, Hau, Do, Veneracion, Cynthia C., Forbes, Dean and Childs, Iraphne (2013). Slum upgrading and urban governance: case studies in three South East Asian cities. Habitat International, 39, 162-169. doi: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2012.12.002
Bajracharya, Bhishna, Hastings, Peter, Childs, Iraphne and McNamee, Peter (2012). Public-private partnership in disaster management: a case study of the Gold Coast. Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 27 (3), 27-33.
Harte, Wendy, Childs, Iraphne R. W. and Hastings, Peter A. (2011). African refugee communities in Southeast Queensland: Forces of concentration and dispersion. Australian Geographer, 42 (3), 325-342. doi: 10.1080/00049182.2011.595769
Childs, Iraphne (1991). Interviewing Japanese tourists in Australia: Soae observations on the difficulties. Japanese Studies, 11 (1), 65-70. doi: 10.1080/10371399108521949
Childs, I. R.W., Hastings, P. A. and Auliciems, A. (1991). The acceptance of long-range weather forecasts: a question of perception?. Australian Meteorological Magazine, 39 (2), 105-112.
Childs, I. R.W., Auliciems, A., Hundloe, T. J. and McDonald, G. T. (1988). Socio-economic impacts of climate change: potential for decision- making in Redcliffe, Queensland. Greenhouse: planning for climate change, 648-664.
Conference Papers
Hoque, M. A., Phinn, S., Roelfsema, C. and Childs, I. (2016). Modelling tropical cyclone hazards under climate change scenario using geospatial techniques. 2nd International Conference of Indonesian Society for Remote Sensing, ICOIRS 2016, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 17-20 October 2016. Bristol, United Kingdom: Institute of Physics Publishing. doi: 10.1088/1755-1315/47/1/012024
Hoque, Muhammad, Phinn, Stuart, Roelfsema, Chris and Childs, Iraphne (2015). Assessing tropical cyclone damage using moderate spatial resolution satellite imagery: Cyclone Sidr, Bangladesh 2007. The 36th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing 2015, Manila, Philippines, 24 - 28 October 2015. Manila, Philippines: Philippine Geosciences and Remote Sensing Societyand Asian Association on Remote Sensing.
Bajracharya, Bhishna, Childs, Iraphne and Hastings, Peter (2011). Climate change adaptation through land use planning and disaster management: Local government perspectives from Queensland. 17th Pacific Rim Real Estate Society Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 16-19 January 2011. Gold Coast, Australia: Pacific Rim Real Estate Society.
Bajracharya, Bhishna, Childs, Iraphne and Hastings, Peter (2011). Role of local government in disaster management: Findings from regional towns in Queensland. State of Australian Cities National Conference 2011, Melbourne, Australia, 29 November - 2 December 2011. Melbourne, Australia: Australian Sustainable Cities and Regions Network (ASCRN).
Research Report
Eswaran, Vrinda, Gidley, Philip, Lau, Annie and Childs, Iraphne (2022). Binna Burra trails mapping project. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Royal Geographical Society of Queensland.