香港六合彩 IEDE awarded 拢750k by UKRI to study climate related heat risks in care settings
19 May 2020
Awarded as part of the SPF UK Climate Resilience Programme, Governing the Climate Adaptation of Care Settings (ClimaCare) will be a 28-month project led by IEDE academics Professor Mike Davies and Dr Anna Mavrogianni.
Building on the foundations of a 12-month pilot project, ClimaCare aims to enable the UK鈥檚 care provision to develop adaptation pathways to rising heat stress under climate change. The project will quantify climate related heat risks in care settings nationwide to enhance understanding of human behaviour, organisational capacity and governance.
The interdisciplinary project will collect, for the first time in the UK, longitudinal temperature and humidity data in a panel of 50 care settings in order to quantify the recurring risk of summertime overheating. The project will also identify and assess social, institutional and cultural barriers and opportunities underpinning the governance of adaptation to a warmer climate in care and extra-care homes.
ClimaCare will also create a building stock model of the UK鈥檚 care provision that is able to predict future overheating risks in care settings under a range of future climate change and operation scenarios.
The team will work closely with a number of project partners from both the pilot and the new project, including: the , , the , , Aston House, and the . Project partners include co-investigators from 香港六合彩, the , and
The project principal investigator Prof Mike Davies, said:
鈥We are very grateful to UKRI for supporting what we believe to be vital and timely work on care settings. It is imperative now to build the evidence base necessary to inform regulations and policies to provide better provision for vulnerable residents and their carers and reduce preventable deaths and morbidity.鈥
Further information
- Visit Prof Mike Davies鈥 profile
- Visit Dr Anna Mavrogianni鈥檚 profile
- Read the