Associate Professor (Specially Appointed)
Ph.D. (Geography)
CHUBACHI Natsuko
Organization
Research Division
- Risk Evaluation and Disaster Mitigation Research Division
- Disaster Humanities and Social Science Division
- Disaster Medical Science Division
- Practical Research and Collaboration Division
- Endowed Research Division
- Joint Research Division
- Co-creation Center for Disaster Resilience
- Global Centre for Disaster Statistics
- Kesennuma Satellite Office
- Public Relations Office
- Administration Office
- Research Subject(s)
- I work for and study science communication in IRIDeS. I am also a university research administrator (URA) in the institute.
- Key Words
- science communication / interdisciplinary collaboration / collaboration between the academic community and the media
- Research Activities
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I explore how to share the knowledge of disaster science with the public effectively.
I also conduct research on public relations and communication for disaster risk reduction, as well as interdisciplinary collaboration.
Since May 2020, I have participated in the Spanish Influenza Study Group, a collaborative project between science and humanities.
- Selected Works
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Chubachi, N., Terada, K., Koshimura, and S. Egawa, S. "Status and Challenges of Convergence Knowledge in Disaster Science: A Qualitative Analysis of Researchers’ Responses at Tohoku University," Journal of Disaster Research 19-6, pp.943-955, 2024, doi: 10.20965/jdr.2024.p0943
Kawauchi, A., Chubachi, N., Miki, Y., Ito, K. and Kodama, E. N. "Analyzing Trends in the Medical Community During the Spanish Flu Pandemic in Japan with the Comprehensive Knowledge of Humanities and Sciences: A Case Study of the Medical Journal, The Japan Medical World" Journal of Disaster Research 19-6, pp.921-934, 2024, doi: 10.20965/jdr.2024.p0921
Chubachi, N., Konno, K., Fukushima, Y. and Sato T. “What if the Nankai Trough Earthquake Occurred?”: A Collaboration Between Academia with the Media Using a Newspaper-Making Workshop as a Starting Point to Engage Elementary School Students and Their Parents in Disaster Risk Reduction,” Journal of Disaster Research 18-4, pp.397-414, 2023, doi: 10.20965/jdr.2023.p0397
- Selected Memberships
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- The Human Geographical Society of Japan (HGSJ)
- Selected Awards
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- Government of Canada Award (2003-04)
- Fulbright Scholarship (1999-2001)
- Rotary Foundation Scholarship (1997)
- Others
Having studied in Japan, Canada and the U.S., I earned my Ph.D. in social science, focusing on human migration and behavior. I worked in Hawaii and also lived in Germany, Switzerland and Thailand. I was a homemaker raising children from 2009 to 2013, which became a precious opportunity to see the academic community from outside. Having lived in multiple places both in and oustide the academic world, I realized that there are such diverse ways of thinking, and that science can be a common base, providing possibilities for mutual understandings. Now in the area of disaster risk reducition, I would like to keep pursuing effective science communication.