Rowena Hill
With over 20 years researching alongside the UK emergency and resilience structures. Her research broadly focuses on resilience, wellbeing and risk. She has successfully delivered previous projects with the National Fire Chiefs Council, such as the wellbeing national project, projects supporting transition into retirement, and projects exploring death by suicide in the fire and rescue service. She has also worked with the National Police Chiefs Council, namely as the embedded scientist for both the C19 National Foresight Group and Climate Change for the Civil Contingencies portfolio. She is the chair of the National Fire Chiefs Council Academic Collaboration, Evaluation and Research Group, sits on the NFCC Health and Wellbeing Board, the Academic Reference Group for HMICFRS, and is the National Honorary Research Lead for the Fire Fighters Charity. She has just concluded a Policy Fellowship with the Department of Levelling Up Housing and Communities and is currently the embedded scientist for the cross-government department, cross agency and cross sector Climate Security National Foresight Group.
Sessions
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Safe Enough to Speak, Resilient Enough to Stay01-Jul-2026Theatre 3
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Developing a Life Cycle Model of Trauma Support02-Jul-2026Theatre 2
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Responding to the Climate Crisis The Future Role of Blue-Light Services in Extreme Weather Events02-Jul-2026Theatre 1

