Centre for Disaster Resilience
Centre for Disaster Resilience is a centre of excellence for promoting the understanding and practices of disaster management at the University of Salford, UK. Its focus is to promote research and scholarly activity (teaching, research and academic enterprise) that examines the role of building and construction to anticipate and respond to disasters (both manmade and natural) that damage or destroy the built environment, and reflect construction's ongoing responsibility toward built environment's users.
The centre undertakes a full range of styles of research from fundamental theory building to highly applied and widely disseminated and addresses construction industry process, environment and product improvement through integrated solutions. Holistic solutions to real world problems are facilitated by the flow, interaction and creation of knowledge across multi-disciplinary groups and networks. Centre benefits from a number of such networks, which provide a solid platform, to further develop and extend their multi-disciplinary focus to actively engage and shape national and international 'communities of practice.' This dynamic environment both facilitates the integration of newer researchers into the research community and provides realistic focus and targets.
Contact
Centre Director
E r.d.g.amaratunga@salford.ac.uk
http://www.disaster-resilience.salford.ac.uk/
The Centre is particularly interested in receiving PhD research proposals in the following areas:
- Capacity building for disaster mitigation and reconstruction
- Project management for post disaster reconstruction
- Disaster risk reduction
- Risk management and sustainability
- Development and construction
- Post-conflict reconstruction
- Stakeholder management and Corporate social responsibility
- Community engagement and participation in reconstruction
- Social impact of reconstruction
- Protection and empowerment of women and other vulnerable groups
- Role of women in mitigating and managing disasters
- Livelihood development, micro finance and community co-operatives
- Knowledge management and integration
- Impact of culture towards disaster risk reduction
- Post disaster waste management
- Disaster management and theory building
- Process improvement / Production management/Lean production
- Public policy, governance & procurement
- Complexity science
- Extreme weather events and coping strategies
- Business continuity analysis and planning
