Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience

The aim of the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR) is to enable, develop and support world-leading research and knowledge exchange in hazard, risk and resilience by bringing together academics, practitioners, policy makers and local communities. IHRR's research aims to improve human responses to both age-old environmental hazards as well as the new and uncertain risks of climate change, surveillance, terror, banking and emerging technologies. It also focuses particularly on the nature of hazard, risk and vulnerability in the developing world.

- Establishing academic leadership in fundamental understanding of hazard and risk. - Developing new concepts and approaches to hazard and risk through interdisciplinary research and novel collaborations. - Undertaking research that supports social and environmental resilience, especially in less developed countries. - Developing anticipatory models of risk governance capable of interacting with policy and innovation processes in real-time. - Supporting and training the next generation of hazard and risk researchers. - Informing policymakers, industry and non-governmental organisations at regional, national and international levels.