[06/25] Integrating Disaster Preparedness into the Transportation Engineering Curriculum for Indian Himalayas (British Council’s £30,000 Industry Academia Collaborative Grant, Sept 2024-2025)

[05/25] The Exploring Risk Visual Arts Festival 2025 explored stories of increasing resilience through visual arts approaches. The event was co-organised by IHRR at Durham University, Tribhuvan University, Nepal and IIT Mandi, India.

[05/25] The Exploring Risk Visual Arts Festival 2025 featured the Picture of Risk exhibition, which captured stories of increasing resilience through visual arts approaches. The event was co-organised by IHRR at Durham University, Tribhuvan University, Nepal and IIT Mandi, India.

[04/25] Dr Harries (IHRR PDRA) was invited to present her research on catastrophic sediment-rich flows triggered by warm storms.

[04/25] Sim Reaney presented the SCIMAP tool at the European Geosciences Union (EGU), focusing on how nutrients impact instream ecology. The SCIMAP tool is part of the wider SCIMAP toolkit that identifies the sources of diffuse pollution and flood waters at the landscape scale.

[04/25] A Newcastle University-Durham University research group, including IHRR codirector Dr Sim Reaney and IHRR PDRA Dr Ellen Robson, funded by the UK Space Agency have published a new article in Remote Sensing on ‘Capability Analysis of Earth Observation Data for Integrated Emergency Management’.

[04/25] Dr Rebekah Harries (IHRR PDRA) led an interdisciplinary field team to investigate the evolution and vulnerability of river terraces to erosion during catastrophic sediment-rich flows.

[04/25] Dr Rebekah Harries (IHRR PDRA) and Dr Alejandra Seray (Universidad de O’Higgins) led engagement activities with local communities along the Rio Teno to co-create future research.

[04/25] Prof. Bruce D. Malamud Presents Workshop on Ethical Use of AI in Research at ARISE 2025

[04/25] Dr Ashutosh Kumar (IHRR Visiting Fellow and Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, IIT, Mandi) and Dr Ellen Robson (IHRR PDRA) co-organised a workshop on 'Integrating Disaster Preparedness into the Transportation Engineering curriculum for the Indian Himalayas’ as part of their £30,000 British Council Industry Academia Collaborative Grant.

[03/25] MSc Environmental Hazards and Risk students visiting flood mitigation options in Cumbria. The students looked at both engineered and nature-based solutions (NbS) within the River Cocker catchment.

[03/25] Dr Ellen Robson (IHRR PDRA) has published a new article in NHESS on ‘A participatory approach to determine the use of road cut slope design guidelines in Nepal to lessen landslides’ co-authored by Dr Bhim Kumar Dahal (Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Nepal) and Prof David Toll (Emeritus Professor, Durham University).