🌟 Our April IHRR Newsletter is out now! 🌟 We’ve just sent this month’s Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience newsletter to our community — packed with research highlights, updates, opportunities and upcoming events. ✅ Not on our mailing list yet? Join here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

🌍 New video: Building Safer Himalayan Roads 🏔️ Thrilled to share a fantastic film by Dr Ellen Robson (former IHRR PDRA) and Dr Ashutosh Kumar (IHRR Visiting Fellow)!

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🌍 New research from the IHRR community! IHRR Fellow Dr Marcus Power has co‑authored a chapter in Reimagining Disaster: Voices in the Pluriverse (Gaillard & Chmutina, 2026).

Reimagining Disasters: Voices in the Pluriverse

Reimagining Disasters builds on the momentum gained by the 2019 Disaster Studies Manifesto, which aims to inspire and inform more respectful, reciprocal and genuine relationships between home and visi...

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❄️ Exciting news from IHRR! Co‑Director Dr Caroline Clason will be taking part in UNESCO’s World Day for Glaciers events next week, sharing work from the new IACS Working Group on Cryosphere Stewardship. The events free to join and a great chance to dive into global glacier and climate discussions.

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I'm looking foward to heading to Paris next week to celebrate the World Day for Glaciers and World Water Day 2026, with events taking place online and in-person at UNESCO HQ. I'll be speaking about resource security in a side event on 'Cryosphere in Crisis: Pathways for a Safe and Just Future' (1/3)

🌊 IHRR Seminar Alert Join us for a talk with Professor Noel Keenlyside on how Atlantic multi‑decadal variability is shaping climate trends

🌟 Now Open: IHRR Seedcorn Funds 2025/26 🌟 Small awards (up to £2,000) now available to support early‑stage research + outreach across Durham University. Open to projects in hazard, risk & resilience—perfect for testing ideas, building collaborations and kick‑starting future funding.

🌍 IHRR Seminar Join us for Dr Caroline Clason’s talk on the risks of glacier decline and what shrinking “mountain water towers” mean for global water, energy, and food security. 💧 “Thousands have lived without love, but not one without water.”

🎉 Congrats to Dr Ashutosh Kumar, IHRR Visiting Fellow, on receiving the IACMAG Excellent Paper Award! His work with Dr Arash Azizi and Prof David Toll advances understanding of how weather affects compacted soils in railway embankments. DOI: doi.org/10.1061/(ASC...

🎉 Congratulations to Professor Kostas Nikolopoulos, Co-Director of IHRR, on the launch of his latest book. We were delighted to celebrate the recent book launch by Professor Kostas Nikolopoulos, Co-Director of the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR).

Dr Ellen Robson is leading a new international project awarded US$100k by CDRI (IRAX). With Prof Bruce D Malamud and Dr Ashutosh Kumar (IIT Mandi), the team will develop PoDRI—a free, open-access online course on disaster-resilient infrastructure, with partners in the UK, India & New Zealand. 👏

Our December IHRR Newsletter is out! Full of fresh updates, timely insights, and important dates for your calendar. If you didn’t see it in your inbox today, now’s a great time to join our mailing list — we’ll send our latest news directly to you each month.

📣 IHRR welcomes four new Co-Directors! We’re excited to announce the appointment of four new Co-Directors to the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR), strengthening our leadership in interdisciplinary risk and resilience research.

IHRR is thrilled to welcome Dr Fausto Guzzetti, world-leading landslide expert, as our new Prof. of Hazard and Risk. Supported by the IHRR Donor Fund for Strategic Research & Outreach Initiatives, Dr Guzzetti joins us after a distinguished 40-year career advancing natural hazard research in Italy.

🌍 IHRR Seminar Series 2025/26 – with Dr Lauren Martin 🌍 Join us for our next IHRR seminar with Dr Lauren Martin, Associate Professor in Geography at Durham University. 🗓️ Mon 17 Nov 2025 🕐 1:15–2:30pm (UK) 📍 TLC 117, Durham University 💻 In person + online – all welcome!

🚨 Don’t forget! It’s not too late to register for Professor Bruce D. Malamud’s seminar today! 🌋 IHRR Seminar Series 2025/26 – Hazard Interrelationships and Dynamic Risk Scenarios 🌋

🌋 IHRR Seminar Series 2025/26 🌋 Join us for Hazard Interrelationships and Dynamic Risk Scenarios with Professor Bruce D. Malamud, Director & Wilson Chair, IHRR. 📅 20 Oct 2025 | 🕐 1:15–2:30pm | 📍 TLC 117 / Teams 👉 Register: tinyurl.com/4p4f84nx #IHRR #DurhamUniversity #NaturalHazards #RiskResearch

🌊 IHRR Seminar Series 2025/26 – Opening with Dr Brian Cook 🌊 Join us for the first seminar of the new academic year! 📅 Mon 13 Oct 2025 🕐 1:15–2:30 pm (UK) 📍 TLC 117, Durham University 💻 In person + online – open to all 🔗 Sign up: lnkd.in/epHuw5pd

🌊 IHRR Seminar Series 2025/26 – Opening with Dr Brian Cook 🌊 Join us for the first seminar of the new academic year! 📅 Mon 13 Oct 2025 🕐 1:15–2:30 pm (UK) 📍 TLC 117, Durham University 💻 In person + online – open to all 🔗 Sign up: lnkd.in/epHuw5pd

🌟 Thank you, Dr Rebekah Harries! 🌟 As she concludes her PDRA role at IHRR, we celebrate her vital work on climate, erosion & sediment transport, and her creative science communication. Excited she’ll stay on as a Visiting Fellow!

🚨 Last chance! 🚨 Today’s the final day to register for the UKADR Annual Conference 2025 at Durham (4–5 Sept). 👉 durham.ac.uk/UKADR-2025 #UKADR2025 #DisasterResearch

🚨 Exciting news from @IHRR! Prof. Kostas Nikolopoulos has been invited as a Distinguished Speaker at #ITISE2025 in Gran Canaria 🇪🇸 (July 16–18). 🧠 Talk: The Computer and the Brain Exploring the balance between Human and Artificial Intelligence in forecasting—across business, finance, and economics.

🎬 Exploring Risk Film Festival – Today at IHRR! 🎬 Join us in W246 anytime 10:00–16:00 for a rolling programme of powerful films on global risk & resilience. 🌍 Live hour: 13:00–14:00 With co-hosts: Tribhuvan University, Nepal IIT Mandi, India IHRR, UK

🎨 Exploring Risk Visual Arts Festival 2025 Photo + Film exploring how people adapt to global crises. 📍 Durham Uni 📷 24 images on display (TLC + Engineering Atrium) 🎬 Film fest + Q&A | Tue 20 May, 13:00–14:00 (IHRR Hub) Films looped 10:00–16:00

🚨 New publication alert! Outcomes from the UK Space Agency-funded “Resilience to Recovery – Data for Disasters” project are now out in Remote Sensing! 🌍🛰️ This 2023 project explored how satellite data can support emergency management in NE England.

Great 2-day workshop at IIT Mandi led by Dr Ashutosh Kumar & Dr Ellen Robson on integrating disaster preparedness into transport engineering for the Indian Himalayas—bringing together unis, industry & policymakers via a £30k British Council grant. More: durham.ac.uk/ihrr

🌟 The Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR) is making waves at hashtag#EGU25! 🌍

🌍 Exciting news from the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience! Our Director, Professor Bruce D Malamud, was honoured to give an invited talk at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2025 in Vienna.

🏔️🌍 Climate Impacts & Environmental Change in Mountain Social-Ecological Systems 🌍🏔️

🌊 Leaky Dams & Flood Mitigation – How Leaky is Too Leaky? 🌊 We’re thrilled that Dr. Sim Reaney, Co-Director of the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR), Durham University, is part of an exciting presentation at European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2025.

📢 Join Us at EGU 2025! 🌍✨ We're excited to share that Rebekah Harries PDRA, IHRR Durham University will be part of an insightful oral presentation at European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2025, exploring how extreme rainfall events shape landscape erosion!