Kati Orru appointed Associate Editor of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Prior to her appointment as Associate Editor, Kati Orru served as Guest Editor of the IJDRR special issue ‘What makes individuals fall through the safety nets during disasters?’, published in 2023. The special issue brought together international research analysing how social, institutional, and policy-based safety nets may leave certain groups unprotected before, during, and after disasters, and how such gaps can be reduced through long-term capacity building at different levels of society.

The International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction focuses on interdisciplinary research aimed at understanding, assessing, and reducing the impacts of natural and human-induced hazards. The journal addresses topics such as disaster prevention, preparedness, resilience, adaptation, and inequality, as well as community-based and institutional mechanisms for risk reduction, providing an international platform for dialogue among researchers and practitioners.

Kati Orru has been Professor in Sociology of Risk and Resilience at the University of Tartu since January 2025. Since 2018, she has led the Risk and Resilience Research Group at the University of Tartu. She has supervised five doctoral dissertations and twelve master’s theses, published nearly 60 internationally peer-reviewed research articles, and disseminated research findings in several Estonian-language publications. Orru is actively involved in international research networks and working groups, including the Crisis Management Innovation Network Europe (CMINE) and networks focused on risk-related survey research.