Founded: 1995
Full Time: 1
Part Time: 2
Budget: 20,000.00
Director: Michael J. Zakour, Ph.D.
Tulane University School of Social Work
New Orleans, LA 70118-5672
Telephone: 504/862-3495 FAX: 504/862-8727 E-Mail: jmichael.zakour@tulane.edu
Research Areas:
The Center's mission is to conduct research into disaster preparedness, volunteerism, relief, and mitigation, and to serve as a scholarly resource for the University, the New Orleans area, Louisiana, the Gulf Coast Region, and the Social Work Profession. Center participants have expertise in natural disaster preparedness research interorganizational theory, volunteerism research, survey and questionnaire methods, interview methods, statistical analysis, network analysis, computerized geographic information systems, organizations, volunteer motivation, human ecology, sociology, psychology, and anthropology. An ongoing activity of the Center is collaborative research with graduate students on neighborhood and mutual and models of disaster relief, crisis services, and interorganizational coordination.
Areas of Expertise:
Special Capabilities and Facilities:
This center is unique in its focus on social service delivery after disaster, and in its focus on hurricane and flood threats in coastal Louisiana. This combination of emphases on Social Services and hurricanes make this the first social work center of its kind in a research university. Also the combination of geographic and network research for the study of social services in disaster is a unique capability.
Research Equipment:
("s" indicates shared equipment)
80486 CPU Personal Computer w/CD Rom, networked 286 PC
Multisync Screen
Color printer (Inkjet)
Mapping, Network and Statistical Software
Internet Linkage
Keywords:
0404008 Disasters
0403017 Volunteers
0404017 Social Services Delivery
0404021 Surveys & Survey Research
0416032 Social Work
0416026 Self-Help Projects
0110009 Gulf of Mexico
0114009 USA Southeast
0403042 Community Studies
0409002 Geographic Quantitative Methods
0411009 Environmental Planning/Policy
0413015 Population Geography
0417003 Organizational Theory/Behavior
0417043 Social Structure
1010013 Statistics