Rachel Lawson

Rachel is a Social Science Technician who works in the Social and Behavioural Science team.

Rachel seeks to make the connection between physical sciences and people - investigating how communities experience phenomena (such as the Tongan eruption and tsunami) and how he can best support them with great communication, knowledge and resources to ensure they build resilience for the future.

Rachel gets to work across a wide range of science areas, particularly natural hazards and risks, energy futures and environment and climate. On any given day, you’ll find her designing and analysing surveys, reviewing literature, creating socio-economic demographic profiles and maps and managing social science datasets.

Rachel’s work is all about people. She’s focused on the human impact of science research and discovery, and her long-term goal is to make it easier for people to access and understand science, by including social science data in physical science projects.