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Gender and Resilience in the City is a Top Trending book for 2024

[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
Gender and Resilience in the City is a Top Trending book for 2024

Dr Robson co-organised a workshop to explore the climate resilience of Fiji's road network

[12/24] Dr Ellen Robson, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR) co-organised a workshop on 'Enhancing the Climate Resilience of Fiji's Road Network' at Fiji National University.
Workshop participants at Fiji National University.

Dr Ruszczyk co-led the opening session of the Asia Regional Humanitarian Partnership Week in Bangkok

[12/24] Dr Ruszczyk (Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience) and Professor Michael Barnett (George Washington University, USA) co-led the first session of the Regional Humanitarian Partnership Week in Bangkok
Several presenters sitting down

Dr Robson awarded the Springer Young Researcher Award

[11/24] Dr Ellen Robson (Postdoctoral Research Associate at the IHRR) was awarded the Springer Young Researcher Award at the 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics in Sydney.
Dr Ellen Robson receiving the Springer Young Researcher Award

Dr Harries at the Cascading Hydrogeomorphic Hazards workshop 2024

[11/24] Dr Harries was invited to speak about hotspot analysis at a workshop on cascading hazard research and related risk management
Debris flow and avalanche mitigation in the Swiss Alps

Bodies as Urban Infrastructure Book Chapter by Dr Ruszczyk published

[11/24] Conceptualising bodies as urban infrastructure in Asia book chapter published
Bodies as Urban Infrastructure Book Chapter by Dr Ruszczyk published

Ritwika Basu completes PhD in Human Geography

[11/24] A message from Ritwika Basu, Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR) student, who recently completed her PhD
A picture of a river in Gujarat (left) and Ritwika Basu (right)

Dr Ruszczyk spoke at the University of Vienna on 29 October 2024

Dr Ruszczyk was invited to reflect on what it means to be a city
logo of the University of Vienna

IHRR Co-Director, Professor David Toll, awarded prestigious prize by Institution of Civil Engineers

[10/24] Professor David Toll has been awarded the Telford Premium Prize from the Institution of Civil Engineers for his co-authored paper “Heritage building information modelling: a case study of Kasthamandap, Nepal”.
Left: Saptabidhanottar, puja and prayer ceremony held to reanimate the site once post-earthquake work had been completed in December 2016. Right: Award being presented to Professor Toll (left) and Henry Paremain (right) by ICE president Professor Anusha Shah (centre)

Grant success - 'Integrating Disaster Preparedness into the Transportation Engineering Curriculum for Indian Himalayas'

[09/24] Dr Ellen Robson and Professor David Toll have been awarded the British Council’s £30,000 Industry Academia Collaborative Grant for a project to improve the resilience of roads in the Himalayan region of India by integrating disaster preparedness into transportation engineering education.
A rocky, muddy road in Nepal, with a bus driving up

Looking Back to Look Forward in Ukraine

[09/24] Dr Ruszczyk is Co-Investigator of the ‘Looking Back to Look Forward: History, Recovery, and Sustainability in Understanding the War in Ukraine on a Global Scale’ project.
Looking Back to Look Forward in Ukraine poster

Building an inclusive research environment

[09/24] Sharing lessons-learned from running an interdisciplinary and bilingual workshop
A photo of sediment cascades group discussing, and a diagram for collaboration and empowerment