Boards
  • I was on the 2016 World Conference for Disaster Management (Toronto, Canada) Board. Together with Kjell Brataas (Norway), our particular portfolio is "Experience". Our role is to make sure that the 1500 delegates have a truly fantastic conference - meeting plenty of people, networking, socialising, and getting the most out of the event.
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Academic publications & grants
  • My PhD supervisor Professor Douglas Paton and I just received word that our proposal for an academic book about social media, disaster recovery and community resilience has been accepted by Taylor Francis (CRC Press) in the United States, due for publication in 2017.
  • Received a small funding grant from the Arts Environment Research Group, University of Tasmania (2013)
  • Irons, M., Paton, D., Lester, L., Scott, J. & Martin, A. Social Media, Crisis Communication and Community-led Response and Recovery: An Australian Case Study Conference Paper 2014. Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC and AFAC Wellington Conference 2014 (2015)
  • Paton, D., Jang, L-j., & Irons, M. (2016) Building Capacity to Adapt to the Consequences of Disaster: Linking disaster recovery and disaster risk reduction. In D. Brown (Ed) Capacity Building: Planning, Programs and Prospects. New York: Nova Science Publishers. 
  • Irons, M. & Paton, D (2017). Social Media and Emergent Groups: The impact of high functionality on community resilience. In D. Paton and D.M. Johnston (Eds). Disaster Resilience: An integrated approach (2nd Ed). Springfield, Ill., Charles C. Thomas.
  • D. Paton, & Irons, M. (2016). Communication, Sense of Community, and Disaster Recovery: A Facebook Case Study. Frontiers in Communication, 1:4
  • Moss, S., Irons, M. & Boland, M. (2016). The magic of magic: The effect of magic tricks on subsequent engagement with lecture material. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 87 (1), 32 - 42.
  • Moss, S. A., Wilson, S. G., Irons, M., & Cubillo, C. (in press).  The relationship between an orientation to the future and an orientation to the present: The role of future clarity.  Stress and Health.
  • I have been contributing to the Attorney General Office's new handbook on the management of spontaneous volunteers, to be released in 2017
  • I am working on the other publications to come out of my thesis at the moment.


Other writing
  • Crisp, P. (Ed.) (2015). So You Want to be a Leader? Influential People Reveal How to Succeed in Public Life. Victoria: Hybrid Publishers. I contributed a chapter: “Entering Public Life by Accident”.
  • Noble, J. & Verity, F. (In press). Breaking the Boundaries: Australian activists tell their stories. Adelaide: Wakefield Press. I contributed a chapter.
  • January 2014 - Guest blogger for Thinktank Social (Melbourne, VIC)
  • September 2015 - Interviewed for an online blog for the Ontario Association of Emergency Managers website (Ontario, Canada)
  • October 2013 - Contributed a chapter to the second edition (in development) of Dr Connie White's book "Social Media, Crisis Communication, and Emergency Management: Leveraging Web 2.0 Technologies" (USA)
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MC Work
Hobart
As part of the MC work for Bride Tas in 2015 I also scooted around the exhibition and did some 'interviews'... you can see some of them here and here and here! 


Speaking: General
Hobart, St Helens, Launceston, Port Lincoln, Longreach

These talks cover a range of topics. I have spoken on leadership, community engagement, telling the Tassie Fires - We Can Help story, lessons from being a small business owner at 22, social media, self-determination, career development... all sorts of fantastic things I am interested in. 
  • July 2017 - Speaker and Workshop Facilitator at the Principal's Association Conference (Darwin, NT)
  • August 2016 - Speaker at the Women in Leadership Day (Darwin, NT)
  • January 2016 - Invited by Premier Will Hodgman to be an Australia Day Ambassador 2016 (St. Helens, TAS)
  • October 2015 - Speaker at the UN Association of Australia - Tasmania Branch UN Day event (Hobart, TAS)
  • October 2015 - Speaker at the 2015 Australian Rotaract Conference (Hobart, TAS)
  • October 2015 - Speaker at the Public Relations Institute of Australia National Conference (Hobart, TAS)
  • October 2015 - Closing Panellist at the Public Relations Institute of Australia National Conference (Hobart, TAS)
  • September 2015 - Speaker at the launch of a book I contributed to, "So you want to be a leader" (Hobart, TAS)
  • March 2015 - Speaker at the Rotary District 9500 Conference (Port Lincoln, SA)
  • January 2015 - Invited by Premier Will Hodgman to be an Australia Day Ambassador 2015 (St. Helens, TAS)
  • November 2014 - Speaker at the IPWEA/TAMS Works and Engineering Conference (Hobart, TAS)
  • August 2014 - Speaker at the Combined Primary School Principals Conference (Hobart, TAS) 
  • ​April 2014 - Speaker at the Rotary Outback Conference (Longreach, QLD)
  • March 2014 - Storyteller at MONA for the ABC's storytelling series with Richard Fidler (Hobart, TAS)
  • February 2014 - Storyteller at the Summer Stories Series (Hobart, TAS)
  • December 2013 - Speaker at the Carers Tasmania Annual Staff Conference (Hobart, TAS)
  • November 2013 - Panellist at the Intercoiffure Conference (Hobart, TAS)
  • July 2013 - Panellist at both Font PR Social Media Index Launches in Hobart & Launceston (TAS)
  • May 2013 - Speaker at the ACEL (Australian Council of Educational Leaders) State Branch Forum (Hobart, TAS)
  • April 2013 - Invited to attend a dinner for Emerging Women Leaders with Nicola Roxon (Hobart, TAS)
  • April 2013 - Speaker at the Royal Hobart Hospital's Research Foundation's Fundraising Breakfast (Hobart, TAS)
  • March 2013 - Speaker at the Tasmanian Government's DEDTA International Women's Day Session (Hobart, TAS)
  • March 2013 - Speaker at the Foundation for Young Australian's Worlds of Work Program (Hobart, TAS) 
Speaking/consulting: PhD related work
London, Edinburgh, Belfast, Troisdorf, Quebec City, Toronto, Riga, Oslo, Lillehammer, Vancouver, Alberta, Canberra, Hobart, Warrnambool, Adelaide, Melbourne, Gold Coast, Perth, Sydney, Brisbane

These talks relate to both my PhD research (social media, community recovery, emergent groups, community resilience, leadership, interoperability, shared responsibility, spontaneous volunteers) as well as my direct experience of being the leader of an emergent group after a disaster event in 2013. 

  • October 2017 - Keynote and Workshop Facilitator at the Australasian Natural Hazards Management Conference (Perth, Western Australia)
  • September 2016 - Keynote at the BCI Africa Conference (Johannesburg, South Africa)
  • September 2016 - Keynote at the Disaster Recovery Journal Fall Conference (Arizona, USA)
  • June 2016 - Keynote at the Australian and New Zealand Search and Rescue Conference (ANZSAR) (Gold Coast, Queensland)
  • June 2016 - Speaker at the World Conference for Disaster Management (Toronto, Canada)
  • June 2016 - I will be heading to Washington after the WCDM and will be connecting with the Red Cross and FEMA (USA)
  • November 2015 - Keynote at the BCI World Conference and Exhibition (London, UK)
  • November 2015 - Presenting for the University of Edinburgh Business School (Edinburgh, Scotland)
  • November 2015 - Presenting for the University of Ulster (Belfast, Ireland)
  • December 2015 - Running an all-day workshop for the LGA in Adelaide. This workshop is about social media and the management of spontaneous volunteers, through the lens of helping local council in Adelaide better manage both those topics during emergency events (South Australia)
  • December 2015 - Presenting at the local government Zone Symposium in (Adelaide, South Australia)
  • September 2015 - Speaker for the Torrens Resilience Institute (Flinders University) for a number of different stakeholders in Adelaide, South Australia. Over the course of two days and five different meetings/presentations, I worked with a range of groups including: SA SES, SA Metro Fire Service, SA Fire and Emergency Services Commission, Department of Communities and Social Inclusion, Horse SA, LGA, Primary Industries and Resources, SA Health, Department of Planning Transport and Infrastructure, SA Ambulance, SA Country Fire Service, Department of Premier and Cabinet, the State Recovery Office, SA Police and SA Water
  • September 2015 - Speaker at the DHL Disaster Resilience in the Land of Ideas conference (Troisdorf, Germany)
  • September 2015 - Online webinar to the Masters in Disaster Health students at QUT (Brisbane, QLD)
  • June 2015 - Speaker to the City of Quebec City Council & members of the Police Force (Quebec City, Canada) 
  • June 2015 – Speaker & Panellist at the World Conference on Disaster Management (Toronto, Canada)
  • June 2015 - Speaker at a one-day emergency management seminar run by Air Baltic (Riga, Latvia)
  • May 2015 - Keynote speaker at Kriskom 2015 (Oslo, Norway)
  • May 2015 - As part of Kriskom, Speaker at the Lillehammer University College (Lillehammer, Norway)
  • May 2015 - Speaker to the Norwegian Red Cross (Oslo, Norway)
  • November 2014 - Speaker for FortisBC in (Vancouver, Canada) 
  • November 2014 - Plenary for the Alberta Emergency Management Agency Conference (Alberta, Canada) 
  • October 2014 - Speaker/Symposium Speaker at the Australian Psychological Society Conference (Hobart, TAS) 
  • August 2014 - Speaker at the Australasian Women in Firefighting Association Conference (Canberra, ACT)
  • July 2014 - Speaker at the AEMI Social Media Forum (Mt Macedon, VIC)
  • July 2014 - Speaker at the UTAS Research Higher Degree Conference (Hobart, TAS)
  • June 2014 - Speaker at the Emergency Media and Public Affairs Conference (Canberra, ACT)
  • June 2014 - Speaker at the World Conference on Disaster Management (Toronto, Canada)
  • May 2014 - Speaker for the USA/Canada Bushfire Managers Study Tour for Tas Parks & Wildlife (Hobart, TAS)
  • April 2014 - Speaker at the Australian Institute of Emergency Services AGM, Tasmanian Division (Hobart, TAS)
  • September 2014 - Speaker at the AFAC Conference (Wellington, NZ)
  • May 2014 - Speaker at the Attorney General’s Critical Infrastructure Resilience Conference (Melbourne, VIC) 
  • February 2013 - Speaker at the Australian Psychological Society's Bushfire/Trauma Briefing (Hobart, TAS)
  • November 2013 - Speaker at the Monash University Disaster Resilience Initiative Forum (Melbourne, VIC)
  • November2013- Speaker to various stakeholders from the Victorian Department of Justice (Melbourne, VIC)
  • November 2013 - Speaker at the Eidos Institute Congress (Gold Coast, QLD)
  • October 2013 - Speaker to the Western Australian Police Force on issues relating to social media (Perth, WA)
  • October 2013 - Speaker at the Sydney Water Social Media Conference (Sydney, NSW)
  • September 2013 - Speaker at the AFAC/Bushfire CRC Conference (Melbourne, VIC)
  • May 2013 - Speaker at the Working Group Meeting for the AlertTAS Govt. Emergency Website (Hobart, TAS)
  • March 2013 - Panellist at UTas event: 2013 Tasmanian Fires: Media Roles, Responsibilities & Challenges (Hobart, TAS)
  • March 2013 - Speaker at the Centre for Civil Society Conference (Melbourne, VIC)
  • March 2013 - Speaker for the Warrnambool City Council (Warrnambool, VIC)
Speaking: Schools & Students
Hobart, Launceston, Devonport

I think this work is really important and I am really enjoying spending time with the students. 
  • May 2017 - Speaker at Principal's Assembly at Collegiate (Hobart, TAS)
  • December 2015 - Speaker at a Student Development Day at Mackillop College (Hobart, TAS)
  • October 2015 - Speaker and Leader at the International Round Square Schools Conference (Launceston, TAS)
  • September 2015 - Speaker at the St Mary's College Year Six Parliament Day (Hobart, TAS)
  • August 2015 - Speaker at the Womensport & Recreation Tasmania Tasmanian School Girls' Breakfast (Hobart, TAS)
  • April 2015 - Speaker at the Leadership Day at St Mary's College (Hobart, TAS)
  • April 2015 - Speaker at Hobart College for an extended talk to a group of students/mentors (Hobart, TAS)
  • March 2015 - Speaker at the Scotch Oakburn College Leadership Day (Launceston, TAS)
  • March 2015 - Speaker at the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australia International Women's Day Breakfast (Hobart, TAS)
  • December 2014 - Speaker at St Brendan-Shaw College on career pathways, health and wellbeing (Devonport, TAS)
  • September 2014 - Speaker at Hobart College for an extended talk to a group of students (Hobart, TAS)
  • August 2014 - Speaker to the Certificate III and IV Fitness students at TAFE on the topic of Booty (Hobart, TAS)
  • May 2014 - Speaker at Hobart College about the ABC Australian Story and the concept of "success” (Hobart, TAS)
  • March 2014 - Speaker for The Hutchins School at the Inter-schools Leadership Program (Hobart, TAS)
  • February 2014 - Speaker to the students at Riverside Primary School & High School (Launceston, TAS)
  • March 2013 - Speaker for St Michael's Collegiate School at their Start of Year Development Day (Hobart, TAS)
  • March 2013 - Speaker for the Middle and Senior School of St Michael's Collegiate at the Awards Assembly (Hobart, TAS)
  • March 2013 - Speaker at the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australia International Women's Day Breakfast (Hobart, TAS) 


School Programs
Hobart, Melbourne
  • March - December 2015 – I presented a 1.5 hour, 5-part series to the Year 10 students at Ogilvie High School on a range of topics relating to mental and physical health and wellbeing and life skills (Hobart, TAS) 
  • February/March 2016 – I have been invited by Mentone Girls' Grammar School and Dr Rick Kausman to conduct a 1 hour, 3-part series over three weeks for the students on the topics of nutrition, exercise, and mental health and wellbeing. This is in collaboration with Dr Rick Kausman (Melbourne, VIC) We are REALLY pleased with how this went. Stay tuned for what comes next!! 
  • December 2015 – I have been employed by Womensport and Recreation Tasmania to facilitate a 45-minute, 3-part series to the Year 9 and 10 students at both Rose Bay High and Taroona High School (6 sessions in total) on a range of topics relating to mental and physical health and wellbeing and life skills. This will be a similar program to the pilot program run at Ogilvie (Hobart, TAS) This is under development at the moment with an expected roll-out date of late 2016. 
  • December 2015 - I delivered a 2-hour workshop at Mackillop on the topics of growth, personal development, career and life skills (Hobart, Tasmania).

Radio
Hobart
  • I was regularly on ABC 936 Hobart on a Monday morning on a segment running bright and early at 530am. We talk all things health, fitness, exercise, mind, brain, body. Hit snooze one more time before you get up and go for a walk and tune in! Now that I am in Darwin, I have been doing a few sessions with Adam Steer on Mornings on ABC.