Te Ao Mārama is Fire and Emergency’s Research, Evaluation and Library service. We help the organisation with research and evaluation evidence to minimise risk and support innovation in decision making. You can learn more about how Fire and Emergency approaches and does this work in the recently released National Research and Evaluation Strategy 2022-2032(external link).

This year we are celebrating the huge amount of Research and Evaluation work we have produced and supported by sharing it with you all in this annual summary. We trust that you will find something of interest and hope you will get in touch with us if we can help you with anything or if you have research you would like to share.

Click here [PDF, 2.6 MB] to read the Te Ao Mārama 2022 Annual Summary [PDF, 288 KB].

Some of the topics we have covered this year, which you can read more about in the attached annual summary, include:

  • The volunteer journey
  • Carcinogen exposure
  • Women’s career progression at Fire and Emergency
  • Impact of smoke alarms on behaviour
  • The cost of fire in New Zealand
  • Non-fatal fire-related injuries
  • Pigeon Valley fire evacuation
  • Spontaneous combustion of slash at skid sites

To see what we have coming down the pipeline, check out the “What next” section of the annual summary.

Get involved

Each month we host an informal research and evaluation catchup over Teams. If you would like to come along and hear what teams around Fire and Emergency are doing or share what you’ve been up to, send us an email research@fireandemergency.nz.

For finding information please contact the Library or head to Koha(external link) (our Library catalogue) to see the Fire and Emergency collection and borrow from it. If you have a research or evaluation need you want some help with, contact Research. No question is too small – we’re here to help.

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