Robert W Brander
Biographic Data
| ID | 5234126 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert W Brander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert W |
| FAMILY NAME | Brander |
| SIGNATURE | BRANDER R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7268-2587 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beach safety as a family affair
Beaches are popular destinations among young adolescents despite the safety risks they may pose. This study aimed to explore how young adolescents are influenced by parents at the beach and how parental presence impacts both their risk perception and their self-reported risk-taking behaviour. We conducted a cross-sectional survey among pupils aged 11–15 years (n = 416) in a public high school in south-western France and assessed their sociodemogr…
Design and evaluation of a co-produced social media campaign to promote aquatic safety in Queensland national parks
Social media increasingly shapes how visitors engage with aquatic locations in national parks, where risky behaviours contribute to drowning and injury risk. Selfies and photography with mobile phones have been implicated in fatal and non-fatal injury, due to distraction leading to a loss of awareness of a person’s surroundings. We partnered with Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) to co-produce and evaluate a targeted Instagram water sa…
Normative learning generates behaviour change
Drowning is a risk governance issue of global significance. The majority of coastal drownings occur at unpatrolled beaches. Interventions designed to influence public behaviours are measured in terms of ‘awareness raised’ and ‘intentions to act’ rather than actual ‘behaviours adopted’. As a result, up-scaling impacts defaults to the dubious assumption that the communication of information can raise societal-scale awareness that will result in soc…
Should land managers be doing more to avert social media-related injuries and fatalities at tourism hotspots
Land Managers have a crucial role to play in ensuring the publics safety across a diverse array of geographies and jurisdictions. With the rise of social media, new risks and threats to public safety have surfaced and left Land Managers in a seemingly never-ending cycle of mitigating one dangerous social media hotspot while the next quickly emerges. New approaches need to be taken to stem the incidence of social media related injuries and fatalit…
Impact of a surfer rescue training program in Australia and New Zealand
Despite persistent challenges in combating coastal drowning rates, the SR24/7 program is an effective intervention that helps save lives. Importantly, this study provides evidence that the course successfully equips surfers with techniques to act responsibly and safely. Expanding coastal safety focus and resources towards surfers, an often-overlooked demographic in beach safety strategies, could substantially enhance community-level capacity to p…
Beach safety knowledge of visiting international study abroad students to Australia
Improving tourist beach safety awareness
The Experiences of Weak and Non-Swimmers Caught in Rip Currents at Australian Beaches
© 2015,Geographical Society of New South Wales Inc. ABSTRACT: Beach rip currents present a risk to weak and non-swimmers, whose limited open water swim competencies may render them incapable of swimming out of these common and strong offshore flows. Here, the aim has been to explore this group's vulnerability by identifying how the limits of their swimming competencies influence their abilities to successfully execute a rip current exit strategy.…
Dye in the Water”
Many beaches are characterized by rip currents—strong, narrow flows that can quickly carry bathers offshore, often against their will. However, despite long-standing efforts at community education and awareness strategies, people continue to drown in rip currents at high rates. Here we describe a simple, but powerful visual-based risk communication approach involving imagery associated with releases of colored dye into rip currents that has been …
Putting tourists in harms way – Coastal tourist parks and hazardous unpatrolled surf beaches in New South Wales, Australia
Sustainable coastal management and climate adaptation
With increasing concern about natural and anthropogenic pressures on the Australian coast, this book is a timely and valuable contribution as it provides critical insights into contemporary experie
Thinking Space
Each year an official average of 21 people drown in commonly occurring rip currents, or rips, on Australian surf beaches. The actual number is suspected to be much higher owing to the difficulty of
The Experiences of Weak and Non-Swimmers Caught in Rip Currents at Australian Beaches
© 2015,Geographical Society of New South Wales Inc. ABSTRACT: Beach rip currents present a risk to weak and non-swimmers, whose limited open water swim competencies may render them incapable of swimming out of these common and strong offshore flows. Here, the aim has been to explore this group's vulnerability by identifying how the limits of their swimming competencies influence their abilities to successfully execute a rip current exit strategy.…
Putting tourists in harms way – Coastal tourist parks and hazardous unpatrolled surf beaches in New South Wales, Australia
Dye in the Water”
Many beaches are characterized by rip currents—strong, narrow flows that can quickly carry bathers offshore, often against their will. However, despite long-standing efforts at community education and awareness strategies, people continue to drown in rip currents at high rates. Here we describe a simple, but powerful visual-based risk communication approach involving imagery associated with releases of colored dye into rip currents that has been …
Thinking Space
Each year an official average of 21 people drown in commonly occurring rip currents, or rips, on Australian surf beaches. The actual number is suspected to be much higher owing to the difficulty of
Improving tourist beach safety awareness
Beach safety knowledge of visiting international study abroad students to Australia
Thinking Space
Each year an official average of 21 people drown in commonly occurring rip currents, or rips, on Australian surf beaches. The actual number is suspected to be much higher owing to the difficulty of
Dye in the Water”
Many beaches are characterized by rip currents—strong, narrow flows that can quickly carry bathers offshore, often against their will. However, despite long-standing efforts at community education and awareness strategies, people continue to drown in rip currents at high rates. Here we describe a simple, but powerful visual-based risk communication approach involving imagery associated with releases of colored dye into rip currents that has been …
Putting tourists in harms way – Coastal tourist parks and hazardous unpatrolled surf beaches in New South Wales, Australia
Sustainable coastal management and climate adaptation
With increasing concern about natural and anthropogenic pressures on the Australian coast, this book is a timely and valuable contribution as it provides critical insights into contemporary experie
The Experiences of Weak and Non-Swimmers Caught in Rip Currents at Australian Beaches
© 2015,Geographical Society of New South Wales Inc. ABSTRACT: Beach rip currents present a risk to weak and non-swimmers, whose limited open water swim competencies may render them incapable of swimming out of these common and strong offshore flows. Here, the aim has been to explore this group's vulnerability by identifying how the limits of their swimming competencies influence their abilities to successfully execute a rip current exit strategy.…
Improving tourist beach safety awareness
Beach safety knowledge of visiting international study abroad students to Australia
Impact of a surfer rescue training program in Australia and New Zealand
Despite persistent challenges in combating coastal drowning rates, the SR24/7 program is an effective intervention that helps save lives. Importantly, this study provides evidence that the course successfully equips surfers with techniques to act responsibly and safely. Expanding coastal safety focus and resources towards surfers, an often-overlooked demographic in beach safety strategies, could substantially enhance community-level capacity to p…
Normative learning generates behaviour change
Drowning is a risk governance issue of global significance. The majority of coastal drownings occur at unpatrolled beaches. Interventions designed to influence public behaviours are measured in terms of ‘awareness raised’ and ‘intentions to act’ rather than actual ‘behaviours adopted’. As a result, up-scaling impacts defaults to the dubious assumption that the communication of information can raise societal-scale awareness that will result in soc…
Should land managers be doing more to avert social media-related injuries and fatalities at tourism hotspots
Land Managers have a crucial role to play in ensuring the publics safety across a diverse array of geographies and jurisdictions. With the rise of social media, new risks and threats to public safety have surfaced and left Land Managers in a seemingly never-ending cycle of mitigating one dangerous social media hotspot while the next quickly emerges. New approaches need to be taken to stem the incidence of social media related injuries and fatalit…
Design and evaluation of a co-produced social media campaign to promote aquatic safety in Queensland national parks
Social media increasingly shapes how visitors engage with aquatic locations in national parks, where risky behaviours contribute to drowning and injury risk. Selfies and photography with mobile phones have been implicated in fatal and non-fatal injury, due to distraction leading to a loss of awareness of a person’s surroundings. We partnered with Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) to co-produce and evaluate a targeted Instagram water sa…
Beach safety as a family affair
Beaches are popular destinations among young adolescents despite the safety risks they may pose. This study aimed to explore how young adolescents are influenced by parents at the beach and how parental presence impacts both their risk perception and their self-reported risk-taking behaviour. We conducted a cross-sectional survey among pupils aged 11–15 years (n = 416) in a public high school in south-western France and assessed their sociodemogr…
Geography (7 works) · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (6 works) · Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (6 works) · Coastal and Marine Dynamics (4 works) · Environmental planning (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Tourism (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)