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The UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR) will shortly be advertising a new lecturer position in Business Continuity and Organisational Resilience. This will greatly strengthen our research and teaching in the broader area of risk and disaster management. Also for next year, 2018-19, a Risk and Disaster Management optional pathway will be available in MSc Risk and Disaster Science where students in the pathway will also be select modules from the UCL School of Management (subject to timetabling). IRDR modules available next year include Risk Analysis for Disaster Science and Catastrophe Risk Modelling (strongly linked to the risk management, re-insurance and finance sectors).
Engaging outside the academy is important to us. This week I joined with the business membership organization London First’s Security and Resilience Network as they launch a nationwide Resilience First successor. We are establishing closer relations with the UK Cabinet Office. A team from the IRDR led the Digital Health 2018 conference. IRDR students choose masters projects which include working with a range of partners.
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MSc prospective students can join the IRDR Virtual Open Day on 30 May to discuss more about all our programmes including MSc Risk, Disaster and Resilience, MSc Space Risk and Disaster Reduction and MRes Risk and Disaster Reduction programmes. (Please see panel for further information.)
The 2018 UCL IRDR Eighth Annual Conference, on Wednesday 20 June, will focus on New Directions in Disaster Risk Reduction and Humanitarian Response. Disaster futures will be a major theme. The keynote address will be by the Rt. Hon Baroness Frances D’Souza, CMG, founding director of the International Disaster Institute, London, and independent consultant to the United Nations. Richard Bretton, a lawyer with over 40 years experience in the field will be in conversation with Julian O’Halloran on disaster and the law. The Annual Conference again promises to be a lively mix of discussions around contentious issues and new developments, and open to the UCL community, our partners, NGOs, business and the interested general public. There will be a special reception for IRDR postgraduate students applicants.
The UCL Humanitarian Summit, on Tuesday 19 June, will cover: migration and health; urban health and humanitarian technology, and will feature student innovation in humanitarian issues. The Summit aims to stimulate UCL’s engagement in humanitarian issues and map out the direction for the development of the Humanitarian Institute. The whole UCL community, staff and students, are welcome to join us.
Both events will be held at UCL and are free and open to all, but registration is required (see panel for Events). The Humanitarian Institute will also be holding a meeting on 31st May on South-South Humanitarianism as part of the UN Sustainable Development Goals Evening Conference Series and a Masterclass on Public Health and Digital Disaster Response on Thursday 21st June (see event panel for details and registration links)
New appointments:
We are delighted to announce that Dr Shanshan Zhou has been appointed to the position of IRDR Enterprise and Promotions Manager and Dr Punam Yadav has joined the IRDR Centre for Gender and Disaster as Research Fellow from the Centre for Women, Peace and Security, Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics. Claudia Sgambato has joined us as a PhD student researching earthquake hazard risks.
Dr Carmine Galasso, jointly appointed as a senior lecturer in the IRDR and the Department of Civil, Environment and Geomatic Engineering (CEGE) has moved to be 100% CEGE where he directs the MSc Earthquake Engineering. The IRDR will continue to work closely with him and his colleagues in CEGE particular on our continuing joint projects on safer schools in Indonesia and Philippines which Carmine leads.
Peter Sammonds
Director, UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction
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Recent IRDR Funding Awards:
Newton Fund Institutional Link grant for the project “INSPIRE: Indonesia School Programme to Increase Resilience”. £122,000 for March 2018 until August 2019.
The partnership for INSPIRE includes UCL IRDR and the Tsunami and Disaster Mitigation centre (TDRMC) at Syiah Kuala University, Indonesia. The project will be led by Dr Carmine Galasso at UCL and Dr Ella Meilianda at TDMRC. Find out more
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Natural hazards such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunami, floods and storms destroy lives and damage economies across the globe; pandemics have the potential to bring death and suffering on an unprecedented scale; while climate change may increase the severity of both natural and health disasters.
How society sees risk, how to link understanding of the causative mechanics to statistical approaches, and how to increase resilience and reduce the risk of disasters are common themes cutting across research in natural, environmental, health and technological hazards.
Reducing global risks and disasters presents a colossal challenge that requires coordinated and collaborative action.
UCL is uniquely well-placed to lead research and teaching in risk and disaster reduction, with at least 70 academics across 12 departments and seven faculties involved in world-class research and practice in the field.
To maximise the impact and value of our activities in risk and disaster reduction, and to increase and enhance interdisciplinary collaboration and cooperation, we aim to bring together individual areas of expertise, under the umbrella of a UCL Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction, built around established centres across UCL.
We also seek to contribute to the UCL Grand Challenges of Global Health, Sustainable Cities, Intercultural Interaction and Human Wellbeing.
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Reducing global risks and disasters presents a colossal challenge that requires coordinated and collaborative action. UCL is uniquely well placed to lead research in risk and disaster reduction, with at least 70 academics across 12 departments and 7 faculties involved in world-class research, teaching and practice in the field. The Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, responding to the UCL Grand Challenges, brings together this wealth of knowledge and expertise, and through research, teaching and knowledge exchange aims to overcome the barriers to understanding risk and reducing the impact of disasters.
To find out more about risk and disaster reduction research at UCL - or to register your own activity - please visit Our Page. Here you have the option to stay involved through different mailing lists, and to become a member of the Institute.
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