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Achieving leadership in risk, disaster reduction and emergency response globally | Part of @ucl.ac.uk | Visit our website: ucl.ac.uk/risk-disaster-reduction
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⏳ 1 week to go! Join #UCLRDR on 18 Nov for The National Interest — exploring how nations can reclaim cooperation in a fragmenting world.

🎤 Hear from @uclrdr.bsky.social's Mark Pelling, Philip Cunliffe, Peter Sammonds and alum Emily Warburton-Brown.

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UCL RDR monthly event: The National Interest
A new basis for meeting the global challenges of the 21st century. Join UCL Risk & Disaster Reduction for a conversation shaping tomorrow's politics.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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🌍 Proud moment for #UCLRDR! Professor Patty Kostkova is featured in UCL’s Grand Challenge of Transformative Technology Impact Report, showcasing how innovation and technology can drive global change.

🔗 Read more: ucl.ac.uk/grand-challe...

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Launch of the Grand Challenge of Transformative Technology Impact Report
UCL Grand Challenges has launched the Grand Challenge of Transformative Technology Impact Report, celebrating almost a decade of pioneering research and collaboration exploring how innovation and tech...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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🌍 What’s next for disasters? And how can we prepare?

Join Professor David Alexander for his retirement lecture 'The future of disasters' at UCL RDR.

23 October 2025 | 19:00
Elvin Hall, UCL Institute of Education
Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-rdr-mo...

#UCLRDR #FutureOfDisasters
UCL RDR monthly event: The future of disasters
In his retirement lecture, Professor David Alexander gives his insight on the future of disasters: what we need to know and what we need to.
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September 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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🌍 Dr Shipra Jain & Dr Thaisa Comelli from #UCLRDR are joining the IPCC’s 7th Assessment Reports, shaping climate science and adaptation worldwide.

“The IPCC isn’t just about producing assessments — it’s about turning the best science into knowledge the world can act on.” Dr Shipra Jain
Five UCL experts join IPCC’s 7th assessment reports on climate science, adaptation & mitigation
We are delighted to announce that five UCL experts have been selected to contribute to the IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Reports on climate science, adaptation and mitigation.
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September 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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"Tsunamis & atolls: why warnings must be locally meaningful"
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#EWS #WarningSystems #Warning #DRR #EarlyWarning #EarlyWarningSystems #IslandStudies
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Tsunamis and atolls: why warnings must be locally meaningful
The usual tsunami advice to move inland and to move to high ground might not be possible for many atolls. Generic, international, trans-oceanic warnings need to become locally meaningful. What advice ...
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September 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Amazing opportunity with
@royalcollegeofart.bsky.social & UCL Warning Research Centre for a Postdoctoral Researcher for AHRC funded project, 'Scoring Warnings'. Details: jobs.rca.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at The Royal College of Art: Postdoctoral Researcher (0.4FTE, fixed term)
Postdoctoral ResearcherDepartment: Contemporary Art Practice, School of Arts & Humanities (SoAH)Grade: 7, 0.4 FTE (2 days per week)Duration: Fixed-term contract, until 31 August 2028About the Royal Co...
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September 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Starting an undergraduate course @uclmaps.bsky.social this September?

“Meet Your Classmates” is a virtual meeting hosted by student adviser Helena Ahmed. 🤝

Get to know fellow students, swap tips, and build connections before term starts.

Book here: outlook.office.com/book/MeetYou...

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September 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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What it’s really like to advise governments on climate resilience? 🌱

@susannahfisher.bsky.social from UCL Risk & Disaster Reduction is doing a Reddit AMA. And it’s a goldmine for anyone curious about climate action.

Ask away www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...

#ClimateAction #UCL #RiskReduction #AMA
From the IAmA community on Reddit: Hi Reddit, I'm Susannah Fisher – governmental advisor, author & research fellow. AMA!
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September 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Your future starts here.

Applications for UCL Risk & Disaster Reduction Master’s programmes without VISA requirements close 29 August.

Apply today and join a global community of innovators in disaster risk reduction.

🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/risk-disaste...

#UCLMasters #UCLRDR #Postgraduate
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August 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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What’s it like to study a Master's at UCL RDR?
✔ Learn from world-class researchers
✔ Get involved in hands-on fieldwork
✔ Build a career in NGOs, government, insurance, and beyond.

Start your journey: www.ucl.ac.uk/risk-disaste...

#UCLMasters #UCLRDR #Postgraduate
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August 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Do you qualify for a UCL RDR Master's programme?
✅ 2:1 UK Bachelor’s (or equivalent)
✅ Relevant discipline
Check details: www.ucl.ac.uk/risk-disaste...
#UCLMasters #UCLRDR #Postgraduate
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August 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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🌍 How do we adapt to our changing climate?

Find out in @susannahfisher.bsky.social's powerful new book 'Sink or Swim', exploring resilience in a warming world.

Catch her thoughts on the BBC's Instant Genius podcast: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

#ClimateAction #UCLRDR
How the world needs to adapt to a changing climate
Podcast Episode · Instant Genius · 07/08/2025 · 31m
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August 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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🎓 Anastasia studied an MSc at UCL Risk and Disaster Reduction (RDR) and sparked a passion for research that led her to pursue a PhD with us too.

UK applicants: Apply by 29 August to start your own journey here.

Find out more about our Master's programmes direc.to/nzJq

#PostgraduateStudy #DRR
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August 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Thanks to @phoebeweston.bsky.social ‬for today's ‪@theguardian.com briefing www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... on lives saved in yesterday's #Pacific #tsunami.

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July 31, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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1/ Ready to shape the future of resilience? UCL RDR’s PGT schemes cover policy & practice, quantitative science and research excellence. #UCLRDR #Masters #Postgraduate

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August 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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@ilankelman.bsky.social joins The Standard’s Tech & Science Daily to decode the magnitude 8.8 Kamchatka quake and 4m tsunami waves it unleashed.

Discover how these waves form and how communities can stay safe.

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#Tsunami #Earthquake #DisasterRiskReduction
Tech & Science Daily: Is Russia's monster earthquake 'far from over'? (special)
A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula triggered 4-metre tsunami waves and sparked evacuation orders across the Pacific.This is one ​of ​the ​top ​...
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July 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Top 3 reasons to pick a #UCL RDR Master’s:
1. Multidisciplinary, research-led curriculum
2. Practice-driven learning (field trips, labs, scenario events)
3. Expert networks in London’s global risk hub
👉 Discover more: ucl.ac.uk/rdr/masters #Humanitarian #Masters #DisasterScience #DRR
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July 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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🎉 Reflections from the 15th Annual UCL RDR Conference: Where is the ‘Human’ in Humanitarianism? On July 1st, UCL East hosted a day of radical reflection, critical inquiry & collaborative energy. #RDR15

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July 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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@ilankelman.bsky.social from #UCL RDR spoke to @skynewsrss.bsky.social and @lbc.co.uk last week about the UK #heatwave - on how we need to think about and prepare for them differently.

📻 Hear his LBC interview with @jonathanray.bsky.social (starts 1:44): www.globalplayer.com/catchup/lbcn...
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July 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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📊 Taster lecture: What’s worth funding in humanitarian aid -and how do we know?

Join Dr Stefan Leeffers of @uclmaps.bsky.social on 9 July for a free session on impact evaluations.

Open to all. Join the webinar here tinyurl.com/2amjkfdx #DisasterRiskReduction #DRR #HumanitarianAid
Taster Session: What Works in Humanitarian Action—And What’s Worth Funding?
Join Dr Stefan Leeffers for a taster lecture exploring how impact evaluations guide funding decisions and improve the effectiveness of humanitarian action.
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July 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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🔔 Final chance to sign up for Prof Mohammad Shamsudduha (Shams)'s inaugural lecture tomorrow evening.

Don't miss this opportunity to hear Shams' incredible story and his 18-year journey with UCL that began with his doctoral studies in 2007.

Book now: www.ucl.ac.uk/risk-disaste...
RDR Monthly Event: Inaugural Lecture - Professor Mohammad Shamsudduha
RDR Monthly Event: Join us as Dr Mohammad Shamsudduha (Shams), Professor of Water Crisis and Risk Reduction, delivers his inaugural lecture at UCL.
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May 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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📢 @ucl.ac.uk Spotlight on Dr Punam Yadav - Director of the UCL Humanitarian Institute, and a champion for Early Career Researchers.

From a small village in Nepal to the global stage, Dr Yadav’s work spans gender, conflict and disaster studies. Read her story: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ap...
Spotlight on... Dr Punam Yadav
This week we chat to Dr Punam Yadav, Associate Professor and Director of UCL Humanitarian Institute, about her work on gender and disaster, mentoring global Early Career Researchers, and a new interna...
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May 7, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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📢 New PhD publication alert!

Congrats to Sam Mitchell on his second first-author paper in the Journal of Structural Geology.

The study explores millennia-scale earthquake clustering on the Skinos & Pisia Faults in Greece using 36Cl dating. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Multi-millennia slip rate relationships between closely spaced across-strike faults: Temporal earthquake clustering of the Skinos and Pisia Faults, Greece, from in situ 36Cl cosmogenic exposure dating
This study investigates slip behaviour on overlapping, en echelon normal faults by analysing the slip histories of the Skinos and Pisia active normal …
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May 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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🔦 Spotlight on Dr Shipra Jain, Lecturer in Meteorological Risks at UCL RDR.

She shares what drew her to UCL, why autonomy matters in research, and how she’s building work on weather extremes and climate impacts. @uclmaps.bsky.social

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Dr Shipra Jain
Dr Shipra Jain is a Lecturer in Meteorological Risks and an Undergraduate Admissions Tutor at the Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction.
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May 6, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Dr Rozana Himaz joined a recent webinar hosted by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, honouring Christopher Hood. She explored 100 years of UK fiscal consolidation in times of adversity.

Watch the full session: youtu.be/NA3vH8w1RUY?...
A Tribute to Christopher Hood:
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April 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM