PhD Students

Translating the impact of knowledge based low tech interventions with special focus on learning and finding realistic way forward in the face of disaster mitigation in the flood prone districts of Balochistan.

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Anuja Jaitly

The Impact of Crop Insurance and Anticipatory Action at the Household Level for Smallholder Farmers

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Umut Lagap

Integrating Digital Twin and Machine Learning for Hazard-Agnostic Post-Disaster Recovery Management

Lan Li

The Real Impact of Social Media on Vaccination: A Comparison Study on Behavior Change between the UK and China

Zerong Li

An Integrated Approach of GIS and Space Syntax Modelling to Investigate How Well an Ethnic Group Is Integrated Into Its Host City: A Case Study of the London Chinatown

Sangita Thebe Limbu

Indigeneity, Gender, and Climate Change

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Sam Mitchell

Improving the Understanding of Fault Mechanics: A Seismic Study in Central Greece

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Krisno Nugroho

How Implementing Governance for Critical Infrastructure Resilience Mitigates the Cascading Effects of Disasters: A Case Study of Indonesia

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Mark Ojal

Rethinking the City in a Multi-Hazard Resilience Context

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Kimon Pantelides

Developing a Consistent Approach to Ensuring Community Resilience to Risk During Times of Financial Crisis: A Study of Fire Services in Southern Europe and the Importance of Quality Assurance Systems

Nicole Paul

Population Displacement Following Disasters

Maciej Pawlik

Green Learning for Disaster Resilience: A Study of Nature-Based Solutions Storytelling in Flood-Prone Communities in Glasgow & Kyoto

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Ahmed Ziaur Rahman

Geospatial Assessment of Water and Soil Salinisation Risk to Climate and Disaster Resilience in Coastal Bangladesh

Jeremy Reynolds

Learning from Organisations on Adaptive Capacity and Their Relevance to Urban Resilience Planning

Michael Ruprecht

Climate Change-Induced Forced Migration in Colombia: Trapped Between Inconsistent Public Policy Frameworks and Ineffective International Legal Protection Regimes

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Roquia Salam

Explainable AI-Driven Digital Twin-Enabling Technologies for Rainfall-Induced Landslide Forecasting in Bangladesh

Xiaohui Shen

The Direct and Indirect Effects of China’s Zero-COVID Policies: A Mixed-Methods Study

Qiushuang Shi

Community-Based Cascading Risks Assessment

Merina Sofiati

Conjugal Intercourse of Indonesian IDPs in Times of Emergencies

Ava Sullivan

Characterising Risky Human-Animal Interfaces to Prevent Zoonotic Disease Spillover Events

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Alexander Thompson

Perceptions of Extreme Heat as a Hazard to Healthcare Systems

Dan Thompson

Leveraging Disaster Insurance and Financial Instruments as Policy Tools to Reduce Disaster Risk

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Molly Urquhart

Volcanic Wisdom: Strengthening Global Resilience Through Enhanced Multi-Hazard Early Warning and Alert Level Systems

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Melodie Vanderpuye

Investigating Spatio-temporal Randomness of Large Earthquakes

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Miura Yohei

Surface Water Detection Using Multisensory-derived Water Indices for Water Resource Management

Rebekah Yore

Transitional Phase(s) to Disaster Recovery

Zhu Yu

Building a Mandatory and Effective Response Framework to the Disaster Chain: Managing Hazard Materials as a Case Study

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Shiyi Zhang

Assessing the Economic and Non-economic Impacts of Climate Transition

PhD Alumni

Andria Sarri (Completion date: Jan 2015): Statistical emulation of tsunami models for more efficient uncertainty and sensitivity analyses.
Alexis Cartwright-Taylor (Completion date: April 2015): A non-extensive statistical physics approach in earthquake geophysics.
George Michas (Completion date: Dec 2015): Generalised statistical mechanics description of fault and earthquake populations in Corinth Rift (Greece).
George Papadakis (Completion date: Dec 2015): A non-extensive statistical physics analysis of seismic sequences: Application to the geodynamic system of the Hellenic subduction zone.
Luke Wedmore (Completion date: Dec 2016): Assessing seismic hazard in central Italy from rates of slip and earthquake recurrence through geophysical and geodetic measurements.
Serena Tagliacozzo (Completion date: June 2017): Social media in disasters.
Katerina Stavrianaki (Completion date: June 2017): Complexity of seismicity in a statistical physics view: From fracture to Earth’s scale.
Bayes Ahmed (Completion date: July 2017): Community vulnerability to landslides in the Chittagong Hill Districts of Bangladesh.
Zoe Mildon (Completion date: September 2017): Geography of earthquake recurrence on active faults.
Danielle Charlton (Completion date: May 2018): New approaches to volcanic hazard mapping at Campi Flegrei, Southern Italy.
Gianluca Pescaroli (Completion date: June 2018): Cascading crises.
Sally Scourfield (Completion date: February 2019): The consolidation and deformation of brash ice.
Rory Walshe (Completion date: September 2019): Ground-truthing the assumptions of climate change impacts on small island states by cross-referencing multiple methods.
Nathanael Harwood (Completion date: September 2019): A rise in the frequency of extreme weather in response to Arctic Amplification and its implications for European decision-making.
Tasnuva Tabassum (Completion date: July 2020): Assessing seismic hazards by using generalised linear modelling for Gumbel-distributed data: From a Bayesian perspective.
Janto Hess (Completion date: July 2020): Financing adaptation in Small Island Developing States: Investigating tourism-related adaptation funds.
Omar Velazquez (Completion date: December 2020): Investigating the cross-disciplinary components of Earthquake Early Warning Systems.
Patrizia Duda (Completion date: March 2021): Community-based DRR&R in the Arctic.
Mark Shortt (Completion date: July 2021): Risks to Arctic offshore operations: Consolidation and strength of thick sea ice features.
Justine Uyimleshi (Completion date: August 2021): Effectiveness of the Nigerian emergency management system with respect to building collapses, human stampedes, and electrical power failures.
Gillian Dacey (Completion date: August 2021): Surviving earthquakes: A study of preparedness advice and protective actions.
Claudia Sgambato (Completion date: April 2022): Variations in fault parameters and seismic hazard in the Central and Southern Italian Apennines.
Melodie Vanderpuye (Completion date: May 2023): Investigating spatio-temporal randomness of large earthquakes.
Mater Almehmadi (Completion date: September 2023): Post-disaster waste management reducing human vulnerability when dealing with toxic wastes: The case of hurricanes.
Myles Harris (Completion date: December 2023): Prolonged field care theory: Prehospital health for disaster risk reduction in remote environments and outer space.
Naif Alrehaili (Completion date: May 2024): Assessing the emergency planning requirements for responding to flash floods in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Rhea Leung (Completion date: June 2024): Mitigation and disaster preparedness measures enacted in remote mountainous areas affected by earthquake-triggered geohazards.
Joshua Anthony (Completion date: December 2024): Evaluating Geophysical Surveying Methods to Inform Flood Hazard Risk Assessment.
Aisha Aldosery (Completion date: December 2024): Internet of Things (IoT) based Surveillance System for Predicting Areas at High Risk of Mosquito Infestation: A Case Study of Mosquitoes Surveillance in Brazil.

Visiting PhD students

Liuqing Yang (November 2022)
Ruidong Li (October 2022)
Gina Charnley (October 2019 – September 2022): Infectious Disease Outbreaks as a Consequence of Disaster-related Risk Factors
Xiaojun Zhang (October 2018 – September 2019): The Role of Government in Wenchuan Earthquake Reconstruction: A Mixed Methods Study