UN Office for Disaster Risk ReductionEUROPEAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY GROUPThe United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction’s European Science and Technology Advisory Group held its meeting at the University hosted by Professor Dilanthi Amaratunga. Professor Amaratunga is the Director of the University’s Global Disaster Resilience Centre and is one of only two UK members

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, Design and Architecture have been shortlisted in the prestigious Newton Prize 2019 awards for their research to protect communities in Indonesia and across the Indian Ocean from tsunami and other coastal dangers.  Professor Richard Haigh and Professor Dilanthi

Professors Richard Haigh and Dilanthi Amaratunga, of the University’s Global Disaster Resilience Centre, spoke at the sixth session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2019) TWO Huddersfield professors played a key role at a major global conference alongside some of the world’s top disaster risk reduction policy-makers and government officials to discuss ways of

The disaster risk research has been granted £541,655 and will ultimately improve the lives of the 3.5 million people living along the river The residential areas surrounding the Ciliwung River Basin are regarded as the most densely populated in the region. AN INTERNATIONAL project featuring two Professors from the University of Huddersfield has secured over

The training was entitled Indian Ocean Wave 2018 for Sri Lanka and was an Indian Ocean-wide tsunami warning and communications exercise The registration desk at the evacuation centre TWO Huddersfield Professors oversaw and observed the carrying out of a tsunami warning training exercise in Sri Lanka. Afterwards, they delivered a set of recommendations to improve how