The IHRR core team:

Director: Prof. Bruce Malamud*

Co-directors: Dr Carly Beckerman, Prof. David Toll & Dr Sim Reaney

Assistant Prof: Dr Hanna Ruszczyk

PDRAs: Dr Aaron Neill, Dr Ellen Robson & Dr Rebekah Harries

Manager: Mrs Julie Dobson

Administrator: Mrs Jules Finn*

Networks: After Disasters Network & IHRR Forecasting Laboratory

*joined in the last year

IHRR 2023 events

• Exploring Risk Film Festival, Feb-2023
• A Picture of Risk’ - photography exhibition, Feb-2023
• Commonwealth Parliamentary Association’s (CPA) Small Branches network workshop, May-2023
• Conference on using operational Research for major disaster response,  Sep-2023
• Exploring Feminist Futures through Care, Urban Planning and Leadership Workshop, Sep-2023
• IHRR networking event, Sep-2023
• Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice, Oct-2023
• Postgraduate Taught Careers Event for Risk Masters students, Nov-2023
• Virtual reality scoping workshop, Nov-2023
• Representing People on the Move' subproject, Dec-2023

Publications 

• ‘Managed Urban Retreat: The Trouble with Crisis Narratives’, Urban Geography (Rahman,.. Ruszczyk.., Jan-2023)
• ‘Liveability and Vitality: an exploration of small cities in Bangladesh’, Cities (Ruszczyk et al., Feb-2023)
• Photos essay on ‘‘We have arrived’: Gendered Roads in Bharatpur, Nepal’ (Ruszczyk, Mar-2023)
• ‘Climate aridity delays morphological response of Andean river valleys to tectonic uplift’, Geomorphology (Harries et al., Sep-2023)
• ‘Himalayan communities are under siege from landslides – and climate change is worsening the crisis’, The Conversation (Kumar,.. Robson, Oct-2023)
• ‘A simple method to determine soil–water retention curves of compacted active clays’, Transportation Geotechnics (Dias,.. Toll,.. Nov-2023)
• ICE Manual of Geotechnical Engineering, Volume II: Geotechnical design, construction and verification (Edited by Brown,.. Toll,.. Nov-2023)
• ‘COVID-19 Interventions in an informal settlement: A spatial analysis of accessibility in Kibera, Kenya’, Journal of Transport Geography (Drummond, Malamud,… Dec-2023)