About us

Our group aims to provide a cross-disciplinary forum to forge new research collaborations and to facilitate end-user engagement.

We are interested in where communities, infrastructure, and/or resource management combine with natural processes in the Earth to generate potential risk. Consequently, societal, technological, and engineering interventions can reduce the impact of severe environmental events.   

The core of our work is presented through our research and includes our expertise in seismic, volcanic, flood and landslide hazards, including those induced or exacerbated by human agency.  Our researchers collaborate broadly with engineers, mathematicians, and social scientists to place our work in a wider context.  

Our interests are in advancing the fundamental science and engaging with and co-producing much of our research with end-users at an early stage to ensure the greatest chance of it being useful, usable, and used.   

In delivering this work, we benefit from funding from:

  • UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
  • Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
  • Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
  • Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)
  • Horizon 2020 (H2020)

At present, we have particularly active research ties with Ecuador and Nepal. 

Non-academic collaborators range from non-government organisations to industry and include:

  • Practical Action
  • Axa
  • Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA)
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