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Showcasing our extensive research project activities with Sri Lanka Showcasing some of our PhD research projects with Sri Lanaka The collection of

Based on our work we do within the South Asian region, both funded research projects and PhD research, there is now a

Over 100 policy makers and scientists gathered in Colombo, Sri Lanka, to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and other communicable

A COLLABORATIVE research project led by the University of Huddersfield’s Global Disaster Resilience Centre and entitled REGARD (REbuildinG AfteR Displacement), set out to investigate the role

The book presents a collection of 55 double blind peer reviewed chapters under the theme of multi-hazard early warning and disaster risks 

It has been a busy year for the Global Disaster Resilience Centre with 17 new and ongoing research projects, with 188 partners in 31 countries and a total grant value of over £19 million...

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2021

Professor Dilanthi Amaratunga is recognised for her career-long impact up until 2020 and is placed among the global top 2% of influential scientists, according to the report of “Composite Citation Metrics” by Elsevier BV Netherlands and Stanford University, UK, released in August 2021. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score, with and without self-citations, or a percentile rank of 2% or above.

View the original article from here: http://www.nsf.ac.lk/index.php/component/content/article/37-department-activities/178-nsf-launched-a-landmark-publication-on-covid-at-bmich?Itemid=101 A snapshot of the article:

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2020

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

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

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2019

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

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,

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

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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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