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Dr Ruszczyk spoke at the University of Vienna on 29 October 2024
Dr Ruszczyk was invited to reflect on what it means to be a city
IHRR Co-Director, Professor David Toll, awarded prestigious prize by Institution of Civil Engineers
[10/24] Professor David Toll has been awarded the Telford Premium Prize from the Institution of Civil Engineers for his co-authored paper “Heritage building information modelling: a case study of Kasthamandap, Nepal”.
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Natural Hazards Demonstrations for Secondary School Teachers Workshop: Durham University IHRR and University of the Philippines UPRI
[09/24] IHRR Director Bruce Malamud led a workshop in partnership with the University of the Philippines Resilience Institute (UPRI) and UP National Institute for Science and Mathematics Education Development (NISMED).
Grant success - 'Integrating Disaster Preparedness into the Transportation Engineering Curriculum for Indian Himalayas'
[09/24] Dr Ellen Robson and Professor David Toll have been awarded the British Council’s £30,000 Industry Academia Collaborative Grant for a project to improve the resilience of roads in the Himalayan region of India by integrating disaster preparedness into transportation engineering education.
Looking Back to Look Forward in Ukraine
[09/24] Dr Ruszczyk is Co-Investigator of the ‘Looking Back to Look Forward: History, Recovery, and Sustainability in Understanding the War in Ukraine on a Global Scale’ project.
Forging Resilient Partnerships: Durham University IHRR and UP Resilience Institute
[09/24] IHRR Director Professor Bruce D Malamud visited the University of the Philippines (UP) to discuss a Memorandum of Understanding between the two institutes
UPRI Lecture - Exploring Hazard Interrelationships and Dynamic Risk Scenarios
[09/24] IHRR Director Professor Bruce D Malamud gave a lecture at the National Institute of Geological Sciences (NIGS) 2024 Lecture Series on the complex interplay between different natural hazards
Building an inclusive research environment
[09/24] Sharing lessons-learned from running an interdisciplinary and bilingual workshop
Dr Harries speaks at British Society for Geomorphology Annual Conference
[09/24] Dr Harries spoke at British Society for Geomorphology conference on catastrophic sediment transport
Gender and Caste in the Overlooked City
[09/24] Dr Hanna Ruszczyk discussed the intersection of caste and gender in cities at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference.
IHRR hosts visitors from Tribhuvan University, Nepal, for research on road slope policy guidelines
[08/24] The Institute of Hazard, Risk, and Resilience (IHRR) was delighted to welcome Tunisha Gyawali, Prajwal Timsina, and Dr. Bhim Kumar Dahal from the Institute of Engineering (IoE), Tribhuvan University, Nepal, for collaborative research.
New article on deterioration of road infrastructure in Tanzania when subject to cycles of wetting and drying
[08/24] Professor David Toll, IHRR Co-Director, is co-author of “Deterioration of a compacted soil due to suction loss and desiccation cracking” published in the Canadian Geotechnical Journal.
