Professor of Sociology
Board of Governors Research Chair in Resilience & Sustainability
Mount Royal University
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Board of Governors Research Chair in Resilience & Sustainability
Mount Royal University
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Areas of expertise |
Education |
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Sociology of Disaster & Risk
Environmental Sociology Urban Sociology Sociology of Science & Knowledge Quantitative Methods |
Ph.D., University of Oregon
M.A., Tulane University B.A., Ripon College |
Timothy J. Haney joined the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Mount Royal University in 2009, and founded the Centre for Community Disaster Research in 2014. In 2019, he was named the inaugural Board of Governors Research Chair in Resilience & Sustainability.
Dr. Haney's research uncovers how families, neighbourhoods, and communities prepare for and respond to catastrophic events like hurricanes, floods, and oil spills. His articles have looked at how disaster-affected residents perceive risk and experience uncertainty, how they make evacuation decisions, how the social networks of affected residents change over the course of evacuation and displacement, as well as establishing best-practices for disaster research methods. His work has appeared in many leading sociology journals and has won paper awards. This research has also attracted funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and others. He is currently conducting a SSHRC-funded study of Permaculture practitioners in Western Canada, to try to understand their practices, ethics, understandings of risk, and approaches to community resilience.
Dr. Haney has been awarded the "Outstanding Scholar" award by the MRU Faculty of Arts, a Humanitarian Award from Vigor Awards International, and the "Champion Award" from the Students Association of Mount Royal University.
Dr. Haney's research uncovers how families, neighbourhoods, and communities prepare for and respond to catastrophic events like hurricanes, floods, and oil spills. His articles have looked at how disaster-affected residents perceive risk and experience uncertainty, how they make evacuation decisions, how the social networks of affected residents change over the course of evacuation and displacement, as well as establishing best-practices for disaster research methods. His work has appeared in many leading sociology journals and has won paper awards. This research has also attracted funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and others. He is currently conducting a SSHRC-funded study of Permaculture practitioners in Western Canada, to try to understand their practices, ethics, understandings of risk, and approaches to community resilience.
Dr. Haney has been awarded the "Outstanding Scholar" award by the MRU Faculty of Arts, a Humanitarian Award from Vigor Awards International, and the "Champion Award" from the Students Association of Mount Royal University.
