Alumni stories

Image credit: Roberto Rodriguez Reyes, @rober3 The following is excerpted from MoDDD graduate Sarah Schoffel’s forthcoming article for The Design Between, a collaborative publication focusing on the issues of disaster, design and development founded by…

Since graduating from MoDDD, I have been working as the Project Leader of the Alpine Fault magnitude 8 (AF8) natural hazard preparedness programme in New Zealand. AF8 is an award-winning programme of scientific modelling, coordinated…

Deployment with RedR to UNHCR in Nepal In the early 90s, Bhutan went through an ethnic cleansing and over 100,000 people fled Bhutan and settled in far east Nepal. Over 90,000 refugees have now been resettled.…

In June 2018, Zoe D’Arcy travelled to Cambodia for a month to see first-hand how international NGO World Vision is undertaking development work with vulnerable communities.  With the assistance of a scholarship from RMIT, she…

Sarah Schoffel, a 2017 graduate, tells us about her experience working with The Anganwadi Project, an organization that designs and builds ‘anganwadi’ pre-schools in the slum areas of Ahmedabad, India. -- Sarah Schoffel I am currently in…

MoDDD graduate Lisa Skillern tells us about her recent experience working pro bono for the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan and with the Porcelain Bear ceramic studio. — Lisa Skillern At the invitation of Yasmeen Lari during…