果冻影院

The 2024 Conference听will bring together academics, practitioners and funders with an interest in disaster risk reduction. This year there will be听invited talks on case studies of positive collaborations across sectors to encourage evidence-based policy, participant breakout discussions around how to improve collaboration and assist practitioners to guide research conversations, primary research and practitioner presentations as well as flashtalks from early career researchers and practitioners to share current work, findings and challenges.听听

Registration is now open and closes on Wednesday 22nd May.听听

UKADR AGM will take place on Wednesday evening following conference sessions.

Follow us using the conference hashtag:听#UKADR2024听

Programme

Confirmed speakers

Wednesday

Frank Savage CMG, LVO, OBE,听Commonwealth Disaster Agency

Frank Savage is Chairman of the Commonwealth Disaster Management Agency (CDMA), established in the early 1980s by fellow Director Robbie Lyle to establish an insurance facility for less developed countries in regions threatened by disasters, Director of FJS Associates Ltd, providing disaster management consultancy services to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and a retired senior British diplomat who served as Her Majesty鈥檚 Governor of Montserrat (1993-97) and the British Virgin Islands (1998-2002), as well as earlier posts in Cairo, Washington, Aden, Dusseldorf, Beijing and Lagos.听

In Montserrat, he assumed oversight responsibility for the on-island response to the Soufriere Hills Volcano eruption in 1995 and the U.K. Emergency Aid programme following the devastation caused by Hurricane Hugo in September 1989. The former involved the total evacuation of all the Southern half of Montserrat, with two thirds of the population evacuated to the U.K. and other countries. He worked closely on island with U.K. Forces and around 100 international scientists.听听

On retirement in 2003, Frank was re-engaged by the FCDO until 2015 as an adviser for disaster planning for the 14 U.K. Overseas Territories, leading a small team to each to review and report on disaster preparedness, with recommendations for improvements, and to conduct exercises to train the local response teams. He also established a rapid UK response team to assist stricken Territories and he instigated an annual DM conference in the Caribbean to share best practice and encourage closer working relationships between the main Territories.听

听Frank was honoured by HM The Queen for services to Montserrat and received the Montserrat Badge of Honour from the people of the island. He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Gregory The Great by Pope John Paul II for services in the Caribbean. He is the Honorary Colonel of the Royal Montserrat Defence Force.听

贬茅濒猫苍别 Galy 鈥� MD WTW Research Network

贬茅濒猫苍别 is an environmental economist, who landed in the world of insurance by chance. She joined WTW, a global risk advisor and insurance broker, in 1998, specialising in natural catastrophe modelling and reinsurance optimisation. She鈥檚 been leading multi-disciplinary teams, who research and design analytical solutions for risk identification, quantification and management. She leads the WTW Research Network, an award-winning public-private partnership, which cultivates long-term collaborations with 60+ science partners to improve the understanding and quantification of risks for the benefit of clients and wider societal resilience.

贬茅濒猫苍别 is a member of the UK National Preparedness Commission. She holds a BSc in Economics & Political Science (Sciences Po, Paris), and an MSc in Environmental Economics (果冻影院).

Thursday

Adnan Khan,听Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Professor Adnan Khan is the Chief Economist and Director for Economics and Evaluation in the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). He is seconded from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he is Professor in the School of Public Policy.

Adnan has focused his career on advancing the understanding of development economics, political economy, entrepreneurship, and public sector reform. He has taught courses at the London School of Economics on development economics, public organisations, and political economy. He has spent time teaching at Harvard Kennedy School. He has also been an Academic Director at the School of Public Policy in which role he has helped shape the school鈥檚 vision and pedagogy.

Adnan is committed to using economic analysis and research to achieve impact. He has used real-time, cutting-edge analytical work that feeds directly into policy, and has also applied frontier research on real-world questions conducted through deep and long-lasting collaboration with policy partners to achieve policy and academic impact.

Adnan brings substantial practitioner and policymaker experience. He has spent more than a decade in the policy world in different capacities and in various ministries. He originally trained as an engineer but moved to public policy and economics studying at Harvard Kennedy School and Queen鈥檚 University.

Candice Howarth,听LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

Dr Candice Howarth is the Head of Climate Adaptation and Resilience at the LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, where she oversees the Institute鈥檚 work on . She has an interdisciplinary background in climate policy and pro-environmental behaviour with degrees in meteorology (BSc), climate change (MSc) and a PhD in climate policy and pro-environmental behaviour. She has extensive experience in climate governance and climate adaptation and is currently leading a British Academy Fellowship in collaboration with the British Red Cross looking at integrating adaptation and mitigation measures to enhance community preparedness to extreme heat. She is the UK lead for the Horizon 2020 鈧�6,2 million riskADAPT project exploring adaptation solutions to climate impacts in the EU and she was the PI of the 拢3,5 million Place-based Climate Action Network (PCAN).

She co-leads the Adaptation Community of Practice, chairs the Royal Geographical Society Climate Change Research Group, sits on the Royal Meteorological Society Climate Science Engagement group, is a member of the London Heat Risk Group and was a member of the Steering Group of the Physiological Society鈥檚 Heat Resilience Strategy. She was a contributing author for the 3rd UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA3). She sits on the Editorial Board of the journal Environmental Communication and is an Associate Deputy Editor for the journal Climatic Change. She regularly advises a range of international, government and non-governmental organisations, her work is regularly covered in local, regional and national media, and she is a frequent speaker at policy, practice, third sector and events.

Alexandra Freeman, Winton Centre for Risk & Evidence Communication, University of Cambridge听

Dr Alex Freeman spent 16 years as a science documentary maker for the BBC and 7 as head of the Winton Centre for Risk & Evidence Communication at the University of Cambridge, where she also developed the Octopus.ac scholarly publishing platform. During this time she has worked on many collaborative projects between the media/academia/practitioners/policy-makers. At the Winton Centre the team studied the communication of risk and uncertainty, but also practised it - such as producing the infographics around the newly emerging evidence of blood clots as a side-effect of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which were made overnight for the MHRA to present to policymakers and then broadcast nationwide the same day. Using examples from her own experience, Alex will talk about some of the key aspects that make collaborations between academics and non-academics successful 鈥撎齛nd when they will be doomed to failure.

Nancy Hay, Director of Evidence and Insight at Lloyd鈥檚 Register Foundation听听

Bio to come.

Registration/tickets

• One-day (Wednesday or Thursday):听拢50 BOOK HERE
• Two-days:听拢80 BOOK HERE

Registration fees include tea/coffee/water听and lunch. A drinks reception will be held on the first evening for those attending both days or Wednesday only.听听

Concessions available to IRDR staff and students 鈥� see email sent or contact irdr.events@ucl.ac.uk for details.

Booking deadline:听22nd May 2024

Book a one-day ticket here

Book a two-day ticket here听

How to get here

• Nearest underground stations: Russell Square (Piccadilly line), Euston Square (Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City lines), Goodge Street (Northern line).

• Nearest mainline stations: Euston, Kings Cross and St Pancras

• Venue accessibility information

Accommodation听

There are several hotels in close proximity to the venue.听听

In addition, 果冻影院 has some accommodation available: /residences/ucl-summer-residences.听果冻影院 staff, students and alumni are eligible to receive 10% off their booking. To access this, please email guest-bookings@ucl.ac.uk for the discount code.听听

Individuals can book rooms directly on the 果冻影院 Summer Residences website.听 For additional information about organising group bookings, email guest-bookings@ucl.ac.uk.听

Frequently asked questions

Please can you send me the detailed conference programme for approval by my local institution?

All up to date agenda information is available on the website.听More details will be added once registration of presenters is confirmed.

Can you provide me with a letter stating my participation?

Please use your ticket confirmation.听If you require further details, please draft a letter and send together with your ticket information to听irdr-events@ucl.ac.uk.

Can you provide me with a letter / any other means as evidence to support my Visa application?听

Please draft a letter that covers the information required by the visa process applicable to you, and send it to听irdr-events@ucl.ac.uk听for review.

Can you provide funding for my flight ticket to ensure my participation?

Unfortunately, we do not have funding to cover travel costs of conference participants.

About the UKADR

The primary motivation for the is to bring together the UK's rich and diverse disaster research community. This will facilitate collaboration and partnership to aid representation of the research community at government level in the UK, and, where appropriate, help with the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

The Alliance is independent and managed by voluntary contributions from the UK research community.

About the 果冻影院 Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR)

The 果冻影院 Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR) inspires innovation and evidence-based practice focused on improving disaster risk reduction (DRR) through our research, education, and partnerships. This creates a better life for many people by reducing the negative impacts of disasters. The IRDR is an exciting cross-果冻影院 department, which leads research, knowledge exchange and teaching in the fields of risk and disaster reduction and humanitarian action. By providing a focus for 果冻影院鈥檚 activities, with its breadth of disciplinary emphasis, promotion of novel multidisciplinary research and translation into practice, the IRDR aims to assume a role of leadership both in the UK and internationally.