Research innovation resilience is critical for the high-quality training of doctoral students in emergency management and serves as a driving force that allows emergency management doctoral students to continuously achieve research advancements and breakthroughs, even in challenging scientific circumstances. However, the current training situation indicates that there is significant room for improvement in the research innovation resilience of emergency management doctoral students. Based on the identification of the concept of resilience and starting from the connotation of doctoral students, research innovation resilience in emergency management doctoral students refers to the research quality and capacity of emergency management doctoral students to persist in original and cutting-edge scientific inquiries when faced with research adversities and risks during their training. Using inductive and deductive methods, the research innovation resilience of emergency management doctoral students exhibits fundamental characteristics of stability, reflectiveness, adaptability, and development through its connotation and in contexts, roles, and functions. Universities should focus on enhancing this resilience by strengthening organizational guidance, enhancing emergency management doctoral students' awareness of research crises and risks; optimizing support conditions, improving their research quality in facing innovation adversities and risks; broadening support platforms, enhancing their research capabilities in facing innovation adversities and risks; deepening mentor-student interaction, enhancing mentor support for improving their research innovation resilience; and enhancing peer interactions, improving peer support for enhancing their research innovation resilience.