[07/25] Dr Ellen Robson (PDRA, IHRR) and Dr Peter McGowran (Research Associate, King’s College London) led the organisation of an interdisciplinary workshop that explored the intersections between roads, development and disaster resilience with 50 practitioners, policymakers, and physical and social scientists – a synthesis of the workshop discussions has now been published as a journal article in IJDRR.

[07/25] Dr Ashutosh Kumar (IHRR Visiting Fellow and Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, IIT, Mandi) visited the IHRR to collaborate with Dr Ellen Robson (IHRR PDRA) for their project on 'Integrating Disaster Preparedness into the Transportation Engineering curriculum for the Indian Himalayas’.

[06/25] Summary: A Durham University–NHS Highland research team, has been awarded £80,000 in UKRI SALIENT Devolved Funding for a new project on Mass Casualty Plans for a Resilient Health and Social Care System (ReSC)

[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.

[05/25] Exploring Risk and Resilience: IHRR Open House Welcomes Community Engagement

[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.