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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

Dr Harries speaks at British Society for Geomorphology Annual Conference

[09/24] Dr Harries spoke at British Society for Geomorphology conference on catastrophic sediment transport
Rio Teno in Chile following a major flood. The river is wide and full of sediment

Gender and Caste in the Overlooked City

[09/24] Dr Hanna Ruszczyk discussed the intersection of caste and gender in cities at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference.

IHRR hosts visitors from Tribhuvan University, Nepal, for research on road slope policy guidelines

[08/24] The Institute for Hazard, Risk, and Resilience (IHRR) was delighted to welcome Tunisha Gyawali, Prajwal Timsina, and Dr. Bhim Kumar Dahal from the Institute of Engineering (IoE), Tribhuvan University, Nepal, for collaborative research.
Picutre of Abhiparna Dasgupta, Prajwal Timsina, Tunisha Gyawali, Ellen Robson & David Toll, and picture of Prajwal Timsina, Ellen Robson, Tunisha Gyawali & Bhim Dahal

Humanities and Social Sciences, The British Academy and IHRR

[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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