Climate change and adaptation
Understanding climate change risks, especially for those marginalised, and adaptation through capacity building, developing institutions and incentive structures.
Conflict and migration
Investigating violence, conflicts and their consequences, the forces behind displacement, (im)mobility and wider human rights and humanitarian concerns.
Health and social risks
Understanding, tracking, and communicating health and social risks through interdisciplinary methods and digital tools.
Educating Leaders
Prize-winning student dissertations and research focusing on future leaders and influencers in the humanitarian and disaster risk reduction sphere.
Inclusion and politics
Developing awareness of and responsiveness to gender, intersectionality, inclusion, and wider politics in the contexts of risks, vulnerabilities and disasters.
Natural Hazards and risks
Understanding geological and meteorological hazards, multi-hazards, and developing ways to mitigate disaster. Risk and uncertainty quantification and communication, catastrophe modelling.
Warning, resilience and finance
Planning for and managing disasters and humanitarian crises through warning systems, resilience management, shelter and housing, disaster risk finance, micro-finance.
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