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[07/24] Dr Ruszczyk of The Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR) speaks at the 122nd AGM of the British Academy
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Dr Samprada Pradhan is winner of ICE West Midlands Emerging Engineers Award

[07/24] Dr Samprada Pradhan has been awarded the 2024 Emerging Engineers Award by the Institution of Civil Engineers West Midlands
Poster for Dr Samprada Pradhan Emerging Engineer Award 2024

Dr Ruszczyk spoke about gendered infrastructure at the Gender in Crisis conference in Utrecht

Dr Ruszczyk spoke at the Gender in Crisis conference in Utrecht, 4 July 2024
'Feminism and the City???' magazine, and the University of Utrecht

Dr Ruszczyk speaks at the GLITCH – 2024 conference in Bologna

[07/24] Dr Hanna Ruszczyk spoke at the GLiTCH Project conference on migration confinement.
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Fieldwork investigating sediment flood hazards in Chile

[07/24] Dr Harries (IHRR) builds evidence for catastrophic sediment transport in Chile
Dr Rebeka Harries and Dr Elizabeth Orr in Chile

Dr Ashutosh Kumar, IIT Mandi Visits IHRR June 2024

The Institute for Hazard, Risk, and Resilience (IHRR) was delighted to welcome Dr. Ashutosh Kumar, Assistant Professor at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, IIT Mandi, India, for a collaborative week of research
Ashutosh

Sediment Cascades and Climate Change workshop, Chile

[06/24] Exploring Sediment Cascades and Climate Change in the Andes: A four-day workshop
Sedement workshop Chile June 2024

Fieldwork on the Rio Teno, Chile

[06/24] The Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR) and colleagues from Durham University undertook fieldwork on the Rio Teno.
The Rio Teno River, and Rebekah Harries presenting data

Publication in Transportation Geotechnics: 'Cost-benefit methodology for road slope stabilisation'

[06/24] Dr Ellen Robson has published her research in Transportation Geotechnics on 'Cost-benefit methodology for road slope stabilisation'.
Two pictures of road cut slopes in Nepal

Overlookedness: Where do we go from here?

The Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR) and the Department of Geography hosted the final event of the Overlooked Cities grant on the 10-11 June 2024.

Road to Resilience: Navigating the interplay of politics, governance, and physical hazards in building resilient road networks

[05/24] The Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR) hosted a one-day hybrid workshop on the many factors that affect road networks.
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Commentary published in the Journal of the British Academy

[05/24] Health and wellbeing in the face of crises Commentary published in Journal of the British Academy
Health and wellbeing in the face of crises Commentary published in Journal of the British Academy