People 2022鈥�23

The department has seen significant growth over the last few years, and 2022鈥�23 was no exception. We welcomed a number of new research, teaching and professional services staff, increasing our staff community to just under 50 people: 31 members of academic staff, with another scheduled to start in January 2024. The IRDR also has 13 members of project staff ranging from research assistants to senior research fellows and ten members of professional services staff.

Awards

Several members of the department鈥檚 professional services support team were nominated in the Sarah Jeal and Nadia Jackson in the 鈥楥ommunicating and engaging effectively with the world鈥櫶齛ward category and Nicola Jordan for 鈥楪iving our students the best support, facilities and opportunities鈥�. Nadia went on to win her award and Nicola received a special mention by the judges in recognition of her outstanding contribution.

In the 香港六合彩 Education Awards and MAPS Faculty Education Awards, which recognise staff making outstanding contributions to the learning experience and success of 香港六合彩 students, IRDR staff were both finalists and winners in different categories. See the Education section for more details.

Academic staff

	Lecturer (teaching) in Social Anthropology and Humanitarianism
	Associate Professor in Risk and Disaster Science; Programme Leader - MSc Risk and Disaster Science
	Associate Lecturer (teaching) Risk, Disasters and Humanitarianism
	Lecturer in Disaster and Crisis Response
	Professor of Risk and Disaster Reduction (20%)
	Lecturer in Humanitarian Studies
	Professor of Geophysical Hazard Risks
	Associate Professor in Business Continuity and Organisational Resilience
	Professor of Disasters and Health (50% IRDR, 50% Institute of Global Health)
	Head of Department; Professor of Earthquake Geology and Disaster Risk Reduction
	Lecturer in Risk Analysis (50% IRDR, 50% Dept. Statistics)
	Lecturer in Global Health
	Lecturer (teaching) in Global Humanitarian Studies
	Professor of Risk and Disaster Reduction
	Professorial Research Associate of Gender and Disaster
	Lecturer (teaching) in Social Anthropology
	Associate Professor in Humanitarian Studies
	Associate Lecturer (teaching) Risk, Disasters and Humanitarianism
	Professor of Digital Public Health and Emergencies
	Professor of Geophysics (20%)
	Associate Professor in International Relations
	Associate Professor in Humanitarian Studies
	Lecturer in Crisis and Catastrophe Risk Modelling
	Associate Professor in Humanitarian Economics听
	Lecturer in Geospatial Science听
	Lecturer in Risk Perception and Communication
	Lecturer in Climate, Policy, and Intersectionality
	Lecturer in Disaster and Crisis Risk Finance 听
	Future Leaders Fellow in Climate Change Adaptation
	Lecturer in Climate and Meteorological Hazard Risks
	Lecturer (teaching) in Humanitarian Logistics
	Lecturer in Humanitarian Law and Human Rights

Research project staff

Research Associates and Fellows

Femke Mulder	Senior Research Fellow, RiskPACC
	Research Fellow, GRRIPP
Jonathan Barnes	Research Fellow in Climate Change Adaptation
	Research Fellow in Gender and Disaster
Maureen Fordham	Professorial Research Associate of Gender and Disaster
	Postdoctoral Researcher in Urban Risk Governance

听Project staff

Aishath Green听听听听听听听听	Research Project Officer, Urgency with inclusion in global climate adaptation finance: why measurement matters
Debora Galvao听	Finance Assistant, GRRIPP
Hannah Haycox	Research Fellow,听Uncovering the Hidden Dangers: The Risk of Human Trafficking for Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking and Refugee Children in Home Office-Operated Hotels
Hui Hui Zheng	Assistant Project Officer, GRRIPP
Jessica Roberts	GRRIPP Assistant and LGBTQI+ Reference Guide听听
Laila Shahzad	Punjab Higher Education Commission Post Doc
Laura Peters	Research Fellow in Disaster, Conflict, and Peace
Nadia Jackson	GRRIPP Finance and Due Diligence Manager听
Olivia Thynne	Events Assistant, GRRIPP
Olivia Walmsley	GRIPP and GDN Coordinator
Yahya Gamal	Postdoctoral Researcher in Urban Risk Modelling

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Professional services staff

Christopher听Gallagher	ISD support for MAPS faculty, with remit to support IRDR, IMD, and MAPS faculty office
Dhashvini Ramanathan	Operations Administrator
Jose Delgado	Education Administrator
Kamariyah Mbamba	Senior Research and Finance Officer
Matthew Lee	Finance and HR Administrator, Research Finance Assistant
Mumtaz Abdul Ghafoor	Senior Postgraduate Research Administrator
Nicola Jordan	Work Placement Manager
Nidhi Rathod	Department Manager
Paula Ktorides	Senior Education Administrator
Sarah Jeal	Communications and Events Manager
Sian Rees-Jones	Engagements, Networks and Partnerships Manager

Visiting staff

, IRIDeS, Tohoku University
Professor Jeffrey Keisler, University of Massachusetts
Dr Laila Shahzad,听GC University Lahore
Dr Chris Needham-Bennett, Needhams 1834
Prof听A. S. M. Maksud Kamal, University of Dhaka

PhD students

Abby Ewen
Disability and identity in times of Crisis in Nepal, balancing urgency and inclusion in disaster resilience
Funding:听Self (supported by the Tomorrows Cities Research Hub)听
Supervisor:听Mark Pelling听

Adel Alharb

Ahmed Ziaur Rahman
Geospatial assessment of water and soil salinisation risk to climate and disaster resilience in coastal Bangladesh
Funding: Government of Bangladesh
Supervisors: Mohammad Shamsudduha, Richard Taylor (external)

Aimee Colgate
How cascading events of hazards happening in concurrence are managed听听
Funding: Self听听
Supervisors: Gianluca Pescaroli, Roberto Gentile听听

Aisha Aldosery
Internet of Things (IoT) based Surveillance System for Predicting Areas that are High- risk of Mosquito Infestation: A Case Study of Mosquitoes Surveillance at Madeira Island and Northeast Brazil听
Funding: Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia Cultural Bureau听
Supervisor: Patty Kostkova

Alex Thompson
Health system emergency preparedness, resilience and response: the case of wildfires
Funding: Self
Supervisors: David Alexander, Gianluca Pescaroli

Anastasia Chau
The efficacy of disaster-related warnings triggering safety-seeking behaviour
Funding: 香港六合彩 Studentship
Supervisors: Joanna Faure Walker, Adam Harris (external)

Anuja Jaitly
An impact analysis of microinsurance on generational progress at the household level听
Funding: Self
Supervisors: Punam Yadav, Maureen Fordham

Ava Sullivan
Characterising risky human-animal interfaces to prevent zoonotic disease spillover events
Funding:听EcoHealth Alliance
Supervisors:听Patty Kostkova, Jon Epstein (external)

Bernice Mufor Nkekeh
Community Emergency Preparedness and Response. A comparative analysis of the cases of Mount Cameroon and Mount Etna
Funding:听Self-funding
Supervisors:听Peter Sammonds, Lisa Danquah

Christiana Iliya
Desertification and the Covid-19 pandemic as contributors to food insecurity in Africa
Funding: Self-funded
Supervisor: Bayes Ahmed

Dan Thompson
Financing Community Electricity Resilience
Funding: Self
Supervisors: Gianluca Pescaroli, Rozana Himaz, Jun Rentschler (External)听

David Gregory
Fault action, interaction and Seismic Hazard in the Central Apennines system听
Funding: CoreLogic听
Supervisor: Joanna Faure Walker

Emma Back
How has the experience of COVID-19 shaped perceptions of pandemic risk? A comparative study.鈥�听
Funding: Self
Supervisors: Patty Kostkova, Stephen Roberts (香港六合彩 Institute for Global Health)

Emmanuel Agbo
Disaster Mitigation and Emergency Response:听A case of flood vulnerability in Nigeria
Funding:听TETFund, Nigeria
Supervisor:听David Alexander and Rob Wicks (external)

Izazul Haq
Risk of groundwater salinisation in an Asian Mega-delta under global change: evidence from the Bengal Basin
Funding:听Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK
Supervisors:听Richard Taylor, Mohammad Shamsudduha

Jack Bestwick
Tsunami Evacuation Modelling
Funding: 香港六合彩 Stipend
Supervisor: Fatemeh Jalayer

Jeremy Reynolds
Learning from organisations regarding adaptive capacity and their relevance to urban resilience planning
Funding:听London Fire Brigade
Supervisors:听David Alexander, Gianluca Pescaroli

Joshua Anthony
Palaeochannels in the Somerset Levels and their implication for flood risk management.听
Funding: Self
Supervisors: Katerina Stavrianaki, Simon Day

Kayla Paulson

Khuloud M Al Mufarraji
Effective risk and crisis communication for better community resilience
Funding:听Ministry of Higher Education - Sultanate of Oman
Supervisors:听David Alexander, Katerina Stavrianaki

Kimon Pantelides
Developing a Consistent Approach to Ensuring Community Resilience to Risk during times of Financial Crisis: A study of Fire Services in Southern Europe and the importance of Quality Assurance systems
Funding:听Self
Supervisor:听David Alexander and Gianluca Pescaroli

Lan Li
The Real Impact of Social Media on Vaccination: A Comparison Study on Behavior Change between the UK and China
Funding: China Scholarship Council-香港六合彩 Joint Research Scholarship
Supervisor: Patty Kostkova, Caroline Wood

Lillian Norris

Liran Renert
Omissions in pandemic preparedness plans and the COVID-19 crisis听
Funding: Self
Supervisors: David Alexander, Estella Carpi, Patrizia Duda

Mark Kuyo Ojal听
Understanding how relationships between institutions and actors in urban development contribute to risks in urban poor settlements
Funding: IRDR
Supervisor: Mark Pelling, Cassidy Johnson (香港六合彩 Bartlett Development Planning Unit)

Mater Almehmadi
Post Disaster Waste Management Reducing Human Vulnerability when dealing with Toxic Wastes in Post Disaster Waste Management: The Case of Hurricanes\
Funding:听Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia Cultural Bureau
Supervisor:听David Alexander, Gianluca Pescaroli

Mhari Gordon
Displaced Populations and Natural Hazards听
Funding: 香港六合彩 Warning Research Centre
Supervisors: Punam Yadav, Ilan Kelman, Carina Fearnley (香港六合彩 warning Research Centre)

Minna He

Michael Ruprecht

Miriam Orcutt

Mohamed Alwahedi
Time series analysis of borehole strainmeter data in the western US reveals coseismic and postseismic surface deformations associated with intermediate magnitude earthquakes (M4-6)
Funding:听Ministry of Education 鈥� United Arab Emirates
Supervisor:听Peter Sammonds, Katerina Stavrianaki

Musaad Almuthaybiri
Investigating the Perceptions of Emergency Managers towardsTowards Supply -Chain Management for Disaster Preparedness in the Saudi Arabia Health System: A Qualitative Study of Challenges and Opportunities
Funding: Saudi Cultural Bureau听
Supervisors: David Alexander, Yasmine Sabri听

Myles Harris
Prolonged field care: a grounded theory of prehospital health for risk reduction in remote environments听
Funding: Self and London South Bank University
Supervisors: Ilan Kelman, Di Lamb (External)

Naif Alrehaili
Assessing the Emergency Planning Requirements for Responding to Flash Floods in the KSA听
Funding: The Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau in the UK (SACB)听
Supervisors: David Alexander, Gianluca Pescaroli听

Nicole Paul
Population displacement following disasters
Funding: 香港六合彩 Overseas Research Scholarship, Motorola Solutions Foundation, Willis Towers Watson Research Network
Supervisors: Carmine Galasso (香港六合彩 CEGE), Jack Baker (External)

Qiushuang Shi
Community-based Cascading Risks Assessment
Funding: Self
Supervisor: David Alexander

Rebekah Yore
Transitional phase(s) to disaster recovery: microinsurance, warning systems and shelter/temporary housing
Funding: 香港六合彩-IRDR Impact Studentship with Rescue Global听
Supervisors: Joanna Faure Walker; David Alexander

Rhea Leung
Mitigation and disaster preparedness measures enacted in remote mountainous areas affected by earthquake鈥搕riggered geohazards
Funding: Self
Supervisors: David Alexander, Simon Day

Rob Davis
Exploring the flood early warning risk data and how this is used by rescue service for a search and rescue methodology
Funding: Self
Supervisor: David Alexander, Gianluca Pescaroli

Salma Al Zadjali
Decadal Variability of Precipitation in Oman and the Assessment of Cloud Seeding in the Al-Hajar Mountains
Funding: Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation in Oman
Supervisors: Peter Sammonds, Simon Day, Mohammad Shamsudduha听

Sam Mitchell
Spatio-temporal variations of slip on active normal faults in central and southern mainland Greece
Funding: London NERC DTP听
Supervisors: Gerald Roberts (external), Joanna Faure Walker听

Sangita Thebe Limbu
Indigenous Knowledge, Gender, and Climate Change听听
Funding: IRDR
Supervisors: Punam Yadav, Maureen Fordham听听

Shinta Michiko (Chiko) Puteri

Shiyi Zhang
Assessing the economic and non-economic impacts of climate transition
Funding: China Scholarship Council-香港六合彩 Joint Research Scholarship听
Supervisors: Sonja Ayeb Karlsson, Ting Sun

Umut Lagap
Quantifying post-disaster housing stock resilience
Funding:听The Ministry of National Education, Republic of Turkey
Supervisors:听Carmine Galasso, Roberto Gentile听

Victoria Maynard

Xiao (Shaw) Han
Disaster, vulnerability, and development
Funder:听Self
Supervisor:听Peter Sammonds and听David Alexander

Xiaohui Shen

Yasna Karina Palmeiro Silva

Zerong (Chelsea) Li
An integrated approach of GIS and space syntax modelling to investigate how well an ethnic group is integrated into its host city 鈥撎齛听case study of the London China Town
Funding:听Self
Supervisors: Bayes Ahmed, Yasmine Sabri

Zhu Yu
Building an Effective Response Framework to Cascading Disasters Linked to Hazardous Materials听
Funding: Self
Supervisors: Bayes Ahmed, Yasmine Sabri

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