On June 24 2025, the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research hosted a webinar on Creative and Reflexive Methodologies for Critical Disaster Research. Inspired by a recently published special issue in Disaster Prevention and Management co-edited by the featured speakers—Dr. Kaira Zoe Alburo Canete (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Dr. Maria Carinnes Alejandria (Universiti Brunei Darussalam), and Dr. Kirstin Kreyscher (Deakin University)—the webinar explored innovative and critical approaches to disaster research.

Together with COPE Director Emmanuel Raju, the panel examined how emerging methodologies can deepen our understanding of disasters and push the boundaries of conventional research to center justice, ethics, and reflexivity. Drawing from the experiences of the special issue's contributors, the conversation aimed to illuminate how scholars, communities, and institutions can collaboratively shape pathways toward disaster justice.