[07/25] Dr Ashutosh Kumar (IHRR Visiting Fellow and Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, IIT, Mandi) visited the IHRR to collaborate with Dr Ellen Robson (IHRR PDRA) for their project on 'Integrating Disaster Preparedness into the Transportation Engineering curriculum for the Indian Himalayas’.

[06/25] Summary: A Durham University–NHS Highland research team, has been awarded £80,000 in UKRI SALIENT Devolved Funding for a new project on Mass Casualty Plans for a Resilient Health and Social Care System (ReSC)

[06/25] Integrating Disaster Preparedness into the Transportation Engineering Curriculum for Indian Himalayas (British Council’s £30,000 Industry Academia Collaborative Grant, Sept 2024-2025)

[05/25] The Exploring Risk Visual Arts Festival 2025 explored stories of increasing resilience through visual arts approaches. The event was co-organised by IHRR at Durham University, Tribhuvan University, Nepal and IIT Mandi, India.

[05/25] The Exploring Risk Visual Arts Festival 2025 featured the Picture of Risk exhibition, which captured stories of increasing resilience through visual arts approaches. The event was co-organised by IHRR at Durham University, Tribhuvan University, Nepal and IIT Mandi, India.

[04/25] Dr Harries (IHRR PDRA) was invited to present her research on catastrophic sediment-rich flows triggered by warm storms.

[04/25] Sim Reaney presented the SCIMAP tool at the European Geosciences Union (EGU), focusing on how nutrients impact instream ecology. The SCIMAP tool is part of the wider SCIMAP toolkit that identifies the sources of diffuse pollution and flood waters at the landscape scale.

[04/25] A Newcastle University-Durham University research group, including IHRR codirector Dr Sim Reaney and IHRR PDRA Dr Ellen Robson, funded by the UK Space Agency have published a new article in Remote Sensing on ‘Capability Analysis of Earth Observation Data for Integrated Emergency Management’.

[04/25] Dr Rebekah Harries (IHRR PDRA) led an interdisciplinary field team to investigate the evolution and vulnerability of river terraces to erosion during catastrophic sediment-rich flows.

[04/25] Dr Rebekah Harries (IHRR PDRA) and Dr Alejandra Seray (Universidad de O’Higgins) led engagement activities with local communities along the Rio Teno to co-create future research.

[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.