PhD Student | IRDR Supervisor(s) | Research Title |
| Abby Ewen | Mark Pelling | Disability and identity in times of Crisis in Nepal, balancing urgency and inclusion in disaster resilience |
| Ahmed Ziaur Rahman | Mohammad Shamsudduha | Geospatial Assessment of water and Soil Salinisation Risk to climate and disaster Resilience in Coastal Bangladesh |
| Aimee Colgate | Roberto Gentile and Gianluca Pescaroli | How cascading effects of hazard events happening in occurrence are managed |
| Aisha Aldosery | Patty Kostkova | Internet of Things (IoT) based Surveillance System for Predicting Areas that are High-risk of Mosquito Infestation: A Case Study of Mosquitoes Surveillance in Brazil |
| Alexander Thompson | David Alexander | Perceptions of extreme heat as a hazard to healthcare systems |
| Anuja Jaitly | Punam Yadav, Maureen Fordham and Stefan Leeffers | The impact of crop insurance and anticipatory action at the household level for small holder farmers |
| Arifin Arifin | Richard G. Taylor (UCL Geography) and Mohammad Shamsudduha | Groundwater characteristics and hydrostratigraphy of the Lower Kutai Basin, Indonesia |
| Ava Sullivan | Patty Kostkova | Characterising risky human-animal interfaces to prevent zoonotic disease spillover events |
| Dan Thompson | Gianluca Pescaroli and Rozana Himaz | Leveraging disaster insurance and financial instruments as policy tools to reduce disaster risk |
| David Gregory | Joanna Faure Walker and Peter Sammonds | A statistical study of earthquake recurrence rates on shallow active faults |
| Izazul Haq | Mohammad Shamsudduha | Risk of groundwater salinisation in an Asian Mega-delta under global change: evidence from the Bengal Basin |
| Jeremy Reynolds | David Alexander and Gianluca Pescaroli | Learning from organisations regarding adaptive capacity and their relevance to urban resilience planning |
| Joshua Anthony | Katerina Stavrianaki and Simon Day | Evaluating geophysical surveying methods to inform flood hazard risk assessment |
| Joanna Faure Walker | The efficacy of disaster-related warnings triggering safety-seeking behaviour | |
| Kimon Pantelides | David Alexander and Gianluca Pescaroli | 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 |
| Lan Li | Patty Kostkova | The Real Impact of Social Media on Vaccination: A Comparison Study on Behavior Change between the UK and China |
| Mark Ojal | Mark Pelling | Rethinking the City in a multi-hazard Resilience Context |
| Md Ashrafuzzaman (Ashraf) | Fatemeh Jalayer and Saman Ghaffarian | Modeling Infrastructure Resilience under Multiple Hazards |
| Mhari Gordon | Ilan Kelman | Displaced People’s Local and Indigenous Knowledge of the Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) |
| Mohamed Alwahedi | Peter Sammonds and Katerina Stavrianaki | Time series analysis of borehole strainmeter data in the western US reveals coseismic and postseismic surface deformations associated with intermediate magnitude earthquakes (M4-6) |
| Musaad S. Almuthaybiri | David Alexander and Yasmine Sabri | How Does GIS technology impact Emergency Medical Services in Saudi Arabia during Disaster? |
| Nicole Paul | Carmine Galasso | Population displacement following disasters |
| Qiushuang Shi | David Alexander | Community-based Cascading Risks Assessment |
| Rebekah Yore | Joanna Faure Walker and David Alexander | Transitional Phase(s) to Disaster Recovery |
| Rob Davis | David Alexander and Gianluca Pescaroli | Exploring the flood early warning risk data and how this is used by rescue service for a search and rescue methodology |
| Roquia Salam | Bayes Ahmed and Peter Sammonds | Explainable AI-driven Digital Twin-Enabling Technologies for Rainfall-Induced Landslide Forecasting in Bangladesh |
| Peter Sammonds and Mohammad Shamsudduha | Decadal Variability of Precipitation in Oman and the Assessment of Cloud Seeding in the Al-Hajar Mountains | |
| Sam Mitchell | Joanna Faure Walker | Improving the understanding of fault mechanics: A seismic study in central Greece |
| Sangita Thebe Limbu | Punam Yadav and Maureen Fordham | Indigeneity, Gender, and Climate Change |
| Shiyi Zhang | Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson and Ting Sun | Assessing the economic and non-economic impacts of climate transition |
| Umut Lagap | Saman Ghaffarian and Roberto Gentile | Integrating Digital Twin and Machine Learning for Hazard-Agnostic Post-Disaster Recovery Management |
| Xiao Han | Disaster, vulnerability, and development | |
| Zerong Li | Bayes Ahmed and Yasmine Sabri | 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 China Town |
| Zhu Yu | Bayes Ahmed and Yasmine Sabri | Building a mandatory and effective response framework to the disaster chain: Managing hazard materials as a case study |
Visiting PhD Students | ||
| Liuqing Yang | Nov 2022 | |
| Ruidong Li | Oct 2022 | |
| Gina Charnley | Oct 2019 – Sep 2022 | Infectious disease outbreaks as a consequence of disaster-related risk factors |
| Xiaojun Zhang | Oct 2018 – Sep 2019 | The Role of Government in Wenchuan Earthquake Reconstruction: A Mixed Methods Study |
IRDR 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 generalized 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: April 2022 | Variations in fault parameters and seismic hazard in the Central and Southern Italian Apennines. |
| Melodie Vanderpuye | Completion: May 2023 | Investigating spatio-temporal randomness of large earthquakes |
| Mater Almehmadi | Completion: September 2023 | Post Disaster Waste Management Reducing Human Vulnerability when dealing with Toxic Wastes in Post Disaster Waste Management: The Case of Hurricanes |
| Myles Harris | Completion: December 2023 | Prolonged field care theory: prehospital health for disaster risk reduction in remote environments and outer space |
| Naif Alrehaili | Completion: May 2024 | Assessing the Emergency Planning Requirements for Responding to Flash Floods in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
| Rhea Leung | Completion: June 2024 | Mitigation and disaster preparedness measures enacted in remote mountainous areas affected by earthquake-triggered geohazards |
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