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Prize-winning student dissertations and research focusing on future leaders and influencers in the humanitarian and disaster risk reduction sphere.
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“To me, August 4 was an eerie near miss, one that often left me pondering “What if?”. For the past three years, my reasoning dragged me into downward spirals, imagining the worst possible scenarios. This study was the first time I thought of the blast in an upward manner. My question turned into: “What if we could do things differently?”
PhD theses
2020–2024
McMillan, Lauren; (2024) Artificial Intelligence–enabled self-healing infrastructure systems. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
Harris, Myles; (2024) Prolonged field care: a grounded theory of mitigating risks to health in remote environments. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
Vanderpuye, Melodie Rose-Teres; (2023) Investigating Spatio-Temporal Randomness of Large Earthquakes. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
Almehmadi, Mater Matar; (2023) A Mixed-Methods Study to Investigate the Awareness by Pilgrims and the Saudi Authorities of Health Risks Arising From the Hajj Pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
Al Zaabi, Saqar Obaid Mohammed; (2023) Organisational Learning and Dynamics of Institutional Change Following Large-Scale Emergencies: Oman’s Emergency Management System as a Case Study. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
Sgambato, Claudia; (2022) Variations in fault parameters and seismic hazard in the Central and Southern Italian Apennines. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
Velázquez Ortíz, Omar Alejandro; (2021) Investigating the cross-disciplinary components of earthquake early warning systems. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
Tabassum, Tasnuva; (2020) Earthquake Forecasting under Short Term Aftershock Incompleteness. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
2015–2019
O'Connor, Aeron; (2019) Pursuing the Intellectual: Changing Conditions of Cultural Production in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
Pescaroli, Gianluca; (2018) Improving operational resilience in the face of cascading disasters. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
Stavrianaki, K; (2018) The clustering of earthquake magnitudes: from laboratory fracture to earth scale. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
Mildon, ZK; (2017) The link between earthquakes and structural geology; the role of elapsed time, 3D geometry and stress transfer in the central Apennines, Italy. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
Ahmed, Bayes; (2017) Community Vulnerability to Landslides in Bangladesh. Doctoral thesis , UCL (University College London).
Wedmore, LNJ; (2017) Fault interaction processes and continental extension in the central Apennines, Italy. Doctoral thesis , UCL (University College London).
Tilling, RL; (2016) New observations of Arctic sea ice from satellite radar altimetry. Doctoral thesis , UCL (University College London).
Cartwright-Taylor, ALG; (2015) Deformation-Induced Electric Currents in Marble Under Simulated Crustal Conditions: Non-Extensivity, Superstatistical Dynamics and Implications for Earthquake Hazard. Doctoral thesis , UCL (University College London).