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April 2018

Huddersfield takes awards at UALL

March 2018

CABARET project activities at University of Peradeniya, Kandy with 78 local and international participants. Kandy, Sri Lanka.

March 2018

Prof speaks at Rwandan symposium on victims of mass displacement

January 2018

International research workshop on: LOCALISING STRATEGIES FOR MAKING CITIES RESILIENT TO DISASTERS, Manila, The Philippines.

January 2018

Uni takes lead at International Conference on Building Resilience

November 2017

RICS Building Control Magazine – Risk and Resilience

September 2017

2nd Steering Committee of the CABARET project at IH Cantabria, Spain

July 2017

How To Make Cities More Resilient: A Handbook for Local Government Leaders

May 2017

Launching CABARET

January 2017

Partnership with Ministry of Disaster Management, Sri Lanka

December 2016

ESPREssO and the Researcher night

September 2016

GDRC paper presentations at Building Resilience Conference

July 2016

Landslide Risk Assessment and Mapping and the “Land Bank”

May 2016

Socio-political and Cultural Dimensions of Reconciliation

March 2016

GDRC working with local governments in Sri Lanka

January 2016

€1,000,000 project to reduce the impact of natural disasters

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2020

GDRC wins Newton Fund award for pandemic planning project

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8 September 2020

The University of Huddersfield’s Global Disaster Resilience Centre takes lessons from tsunami warning system research into helping Sri Lanka to plan for

Tsunami research wins UK/Indonesia Country award in Newton Prizes

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15 January 2020

The work will benefit at risk areas of coastal Indonesia through the introduction of new advanced warning and preparedness measures WITH their

2019

UN disaster risk reduction advisory group meets on campus

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26 November 2019

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UN Office for Disaster Risk ReductionEUROPEAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY GROUPThe United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction’s European Science and Technology

Huddersfield Professors make the £1m Newton Prize 2019 shortlist

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23 August 2019

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The Newton Prize celebrates outstanding international research partnerships and is an annual £1million fund award TWO Professors from the University of Huddersfield’s School of Art,

Lead roles for Disaster Risk Reduction experts at Geneva forum

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13 June 2019

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Professors Richard Haigh and Dilanthi Amaratunga, of the University’s Global Disaster Resilience Centre, spoke at the sixth session of the Global Platform for

2018

December 2018

Professors to improve the Ciliwung River Basin in Indonesia

November 2018

Tsunami warning exercise by Uni disaster experts is a success

September 2018

€390k project focuses on rebuilding after displacement

June 2018

Leading roles for Head of the Global Disaster Resilience Centre

May 2018

Tsunami Ready Hotels in Bali, Indonesia
Tsunami interface project Indonesia meeting in collaboration with BMKG and BMPB

May 2018

Project meeting :”Mainstreaming Integrated Disaster Risk Reduction And Climate Change Adaptation Strategies Into Costal Urban Agglomeration Policy”, in Padang, Indonesia
Key partner of the Indonesian Disaster Expert Association (IABI)
Appointed member, Association of Disaster Risk Management Professionals, Sri Lanka (ADRiMP)
Appointed as an Advisory Board Memember, Federation of Local Governments Authorities Sri Lanka (FSLGA) for the period 2018-2022-

April 2018

Science & Technology for DRR European Science & Technology Advisory Group
Huddersfield takes awards at UALL
Visiting Tsunami and Disaster Mitigation Research Centre (TDMRC) at Syiah Kuala University in Banda Aceh
“When natural hazards and man made disasters meet: Tsunami and ethnic conflict interface in Sri Lanka”.

March 2018

CABARET team marks the International Women’s Day
CABARET project activities at University of Peradeniya, Kandy with 78 local and international participants. Kandy, Sri Lanka.
2018 Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction 2018 (AMCDRR), jointly hosted by the Government of Mongolia and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)
Prof speaks at Rwandan symposium on victims of mass displacement
Focus group on upstream – downstream interface in end-to-end tsunami early warning and mitigation system, Colombo, Sri Lanka

February 2018

Full proceedings of 7th ICBR published in Proceedia Engineering
Chairing the Royal Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Development Symposium on “Inclusive Prosperity and Wellbeing in the Context of Mass Displacement”. Kigali, Rwanda
Partner of the Handbook For Local Government Leaders

Janaury 2018

International research workshop on: LOCALISING STRATEGIES FOR MAKING CITIES RESILIENT TO DISASTERS, Manila, The Philippines.
Observing and evaluating an Evacuation Drill, Makati City, Philippines
Delivering a key note : “The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction , SDGs, 'Making Cities Resilient' and Localising Global Frameworks” at the International workshop on “LOCALISING STRATEGIES FOR MAKING CITIES RESILIENT TO DISASTERS” in Manila, Philippines
The Philippines has been identified as being one of the highest naturla hazard risks in the world
Uni takes lead at International Conference on Building Resilience
“Tsunami Interface – A study of the upstream-downstream interface in end-to-end tsunami early warning and mitigation systems” Community consultations workshop in Hambantota, Sri Lanka
8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BUILDING RESILIENCE with the theme “Risk and Resilience in practice: Vulnerabilities, Displaced People, Local Communities and Heritages” to be held from November 7-9,2018, in Lisbon, Portugal has just been published.

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2017

December 2017

“Building the Future – sustainable and resilient environments”, 9th International Conference of Faculty of Architecture Research (FARU), University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, 8-9 December 2017, Colombo & Partnership with FARU Conference, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Over 325 academics, practitioners and professionals attend international conference on building resilience in Bangkok, Thailand

November 2017

October 2017

September 2017

2nd Steering Committee of the CABARET project at IH Cantabria, Spain – 26th to 29th September 2017
“The IOC-UNESCO, Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWMS, Intersessional Task Team on “Capacity Assessment of Tsunami Preparedness” at the Indonesian Agency for Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysics (BMKG) Jakarta, Indonesia

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2016

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August 2016

Collaborating on Urban living for elderly with UTM MalaysiaUTM Malaysia

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CADRE project meeting and stakeholder seminar in Lithuania

March 2016

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2015

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August 2015

Science and technology cooperation between South Asia and the EU

July 2015

Briefing Paper on Taking stock of the Tsunami recovery process

June 2015

May 2015

April 2015

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
Science is used for Disaster Risk Reduction
Global Summit of Research Institutes for Disaster Risk Reduction
Uni profs at UN Disaster Risk Reduction world conference in Japan
Inter-disciplinary research in global disaster resilience
Resilience Management with Intelligent Systems
Disasters and Human Security Forum
Applying Science and Technology to Disaster Risk Reduction
Roadmap for European Disaster Resilience Network for Education

March 2015

Resilience Management with Intelligent Systems
Disasters and Human Security Forum
Applying Science and Technology
Roadmap for European Disaster Resilience
The role of Higher Education in Disaster Risk Knowledge
Latest Issue of ANDROID EXCHANGE Published
GDRC and the Local Governments Roundtable
Reducing Disaster Risk in Urban Settings
ANDROID contributes to the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
GDRC secure British Council workshop grant
Road to Sendai from Huddersfield
Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR 2015)

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