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

[04/25] Summary: Supported by the British Council (£70,000) under the International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF), this 18-month project addresses the need to understand and manage the interconnected impacts of shocks and disasters on the Biodiversity-Water-Energy-Food (BWEF) Nexus. Traditionally treated in silos, shocks in one system (e.g., floods affecting water supply) can trigger cascading effects across others—yet these interdependencies are seldom fully explored in resilience planning.

[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).

[02/25] The dissemination workshop fostered meaningful dialogue and the exchange of experiences related to Esha’s PhD research questions, engaging stakeholders from across all levels of the drinking water governance system.

[02/25] Former IHRR Co-Director, Professor David Toll presented an Interactive Technical Talk on Tropical Residual Soils to the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE)

[02/25] Our colleagues at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi, and Dr Ellen Robson (IHRR PDRA) have published a new article in Landslides on ‘Investigation of landslides triggered by unprecedented rainfall events during 2023 monsoon in Himachal Pradesh, India’.

[02/25] Summary: SAT-Guard [Satellite-Aided Technologies for advancing resilience: Guarding energy services under climate hazards, risks, and disasters] is a £1M research two-year project led by Durham University and funded by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Cross-Council Responsive Mode. SAT-Guard is an interdisciplinary project that will explore how extreme weather influences energy services, including renewable energy (solar, wind).

[01/25] IHRR Director Bruce D Malamud spoke at our Active Listening and Co-Creating Knowledge in Hazards, Risk and Resilience Symposium

[01/25] Dr Ruszczyk’s Gender and Resilience in the City book is one of Practical Action Publishing’s top 5 trending books for 2024

[12/24] Piotr Osinski has been awarded a PhD degree from the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. Piotr’s external PhD supervisor was Professor David Toll, Co-Director of the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR)