UKADR conference 2024: Collaborative research to make a difference

The UKADR 2024 conference brought together academics, practitioners and funders with an interest in disaster risk reduction.

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26 Jun 2024, 08:30

UCL
London
United Kingdom

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About the UKADR

The primary motivation for the UK Alliance for Disaster Research (UKADR) is to bring together the UK’s rich and diverse disaster research community. This will facilitate collaboration and partnership to aid representation of the research community at government level in the UK, and, where appropriate, help with the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

The alliance is independent and managed by voluntary contributions from the UK research community.

UKADR conference 2024

This year, there were invited talks on case studies of positive collaborations across sectors to encourage evidence-based policy, participant breakout discussions around how to improve collaboration and assist practitioners to guide research conversations, primary research and practitioner presentations as well as flash talks from early career researchers and practitioners to share current work, findings and challenges.

Programme

Panel discussion: Successful collaborations – past, present and future

Frank Savage, Chairman Commonwealth Disaster Agency, Former Governor of Montserrat
Hélène Galy, MD WTW Research Network

Communicating with data visualisation – Tobias Sturt, Creative Director of Add Two

Oral presentations and flash talks

Inclusion and politics – Chairs: Mhari Gordon, Victoria Maynard, Abigail Ewen
Natural hazards and risks – Chairs: Jack Mayer (UKHSA), Harriet Thompson, Salma Al-Zadjali
Warning, resilience and finance – Chair: Rebekah Yore, Shipra Jain, Sarah Dryhurst
Conflict and migration – Chair: Thaisa Cornelli
Climate change and adaptation – Chair: Rory Walsh
Health and social risks - Chair: Roberto Gentile

Funder panel discussion

Chair: Mark Pelling, Disaster Research Group chair
Panellists: Jessica Camburn (ELHRA), Adrian Bucher (UKCDR) and Alice Marks (RAEng)

UKADR AGM
Annual General Meeting for the UK Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction
Chairs: Susanne Sargeant, Amy Donovan

Keynote presentation
Adnan Khan, Chief Economist FCDO, LSE

Chair: Rozana Himaz

Invited talks

Anna Beswick, Policy Fellow at LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and Environment
Alexandra Freeman, Head of the Winton Centre for Risk & Evidence Communication at the University of Cambridge
Nancy Hey, Director of Evidence and Insight at Lloyd’s Register Foundation

Chair: Mohammad Shamsudduha

Learning labs

What lessons can be learned from recent disaster recovery efforts for designing future urgent research and deployment (efficacy, consideration of ethical research and changing deployment risks)?
How can researchers and practitioners engage critically and effectively with a new government at the local and national levels?
What are the priorities for a new resilience policy in the UK if the policy were to take into account future risks and minimise national and global disaster impacts?
How can we ensure continued and increased engagement from the physical and engineering sciences in UKADR to ensure a thriving and inclusive community of researchers?
How can UKADR input to the next Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?

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