Professor Richard Haigh

Research Professor

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By appointment

I am a Research Professor and Deputy Director of Centre for Disaster Resilience, within the School of the Built Environment.

I am the Founding Editor-In-Chief of the International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment (2009-date) and Co-Chair of the International Conference series on Building Resilience, which held conferences in Sri Lanka in 2008, 2011 and 2013.

I am a Fellow of International Institute for Infrastructure Renewal and Reconstruction (IIIRR) (2010-date) and was Proposer and Joint Coordinator of CIB Task Group 63, Disasters and the Built Environment (2006-10). I am also an Academic Advisor (alternate) to United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) Making Cities Resilient campaign (2009-date) and an Advisor to the Ministry of Disaster Management, Sri Lanka (2009-date).

I have delivered over 40 invited speeches and keynote presentations for audiences in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Canada, Estonia, Lithuania, and South Africa.

I have obtained twelve research grants since 2005 in the areas of disaster resilience, construction management and education, covering issues such climate change adaptation, social impact of post-conflict reconstruction, gender, curricular development, knowledge management, capacity building for resilience, and education in the built environment. Current/recent grants include:

• Co-Investigator (2012-15), Reformation of the Curricula on Built Environment in Eastern Neighbouring Area CEN-EAST, EC – TEMPUS, €78,860 (from €998,601 total grant).
• Principal Investigator (2011-14), ANDROID: Academic Network for Disaster Resilience to Optimise Educational Development, EU Lifelong Learning Programme, £536,447. The network is a consortium of partners from 64 European institutions from 28 European countries, and three institutions from ‘third countries’. This is the largest partnership Salford has ever engaged in a research initiative.
• Co-Investigator (2011-14), Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaption, British Council, £39,921, with Patuakhali Science and Technology University (PSTU), Bangladesh.

Since 1998 I have published: an edited book, published by Wiley Blackwell; seven book chapters in three edited books; twenty-three journal articles, of which five are in ISI ranked journals and eighteen are in Scopus journals (supplier of 2013 REF data); fourteen refereed journal articles in the REF 2014 reporting period (2008-2013); one hundred and seventy one refereed conference papers; six edited conference proceedings; eight journal editorials for ISI and Scopus indexed journals; eleven research reports; and, twenty eight newspaper & magazine articles written by me or about my research activity.

Further details about my work is available at www.richardhaigh.info

My teaching interests include strategic management, organisational management, disaster resilience, risk management, culture and people.

My research interests are in field of disaster resilience in the built environment, with a particular interest in the conceptual understanding of resilience, capacity building for resilience, and the social impact of post-disaster and post-conflict reconstruction.

BSc (Hons) Construction Management

PhD

Books

Amaratunga, D. & Haigh, R. (2011). Post-Disaster Reconstruction of the Built Environment: Rebuilding for Resilience. First edit. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

Chapters in books

Sutton, R. & Haigh, R. (2011). Private construction sector engagement in post-disaster reconstruction. In: D. Amaratunga & R. Haigh (eds.). Post-Disaster Reconstruction of the Built Environment: Rebuilding for Resilience. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 192-207.

Siriwardena, N. & Haigh, R. (2011). Stakeholder consultation in the reconstruction process. In: D. Amaratunga & R. Haigh (eds.). Post-Disaster Reconstruction of the Built Environment: Rebuilding for Resilience. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 117-132.

Haigh, R., Amaratunga, D., Keraminiyage, K. & Pathirage, C. (2008). Infrastructure lifecycles and disaster mitigation. In: H. Smyth & S. Pryke (eds.). Collaborative Relationships in Construction: Developing Frameworks and Networks. Wiley-Blackwell.

Haigh, R. (2008). Interviews: a negotiated partnership. In: A. Knight & L. Ruddock (eds.). Researching the Built Environment - Advanced Research Methods in Construction. Blackwell Publishing, pp. 111-120.

Articles in refereed journals

Pathirage, C., Seneviratne, T.K.K., Amaratunga, D. & Haigh, R. (2012). Managing disaster knowledge: identification of knowledge factors and challenges. International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment. 3 (3). pp. 237-252.

Haigh, R. & Sutton, R. (2012). Strategies for the effective engagement of multi-national construction enterprises in post-disaster building and infrastructure projects. International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment. 3 (3). pp. 270-282.

Kulatunga, K., Kulatunga, U., Amaratunga, D. & Haigh, R. (2011). Client’s championing characteristics that promote construction innovation. Construction Innovation: Information, Process, Management. 11 (4). pp. 380-398.

Palliyaguru, R., Amaratunga, D. & Haigh, R. (2010). Integration of “disaster risk reduction” into infrastructure reconstruction sector: Policy vs practise gaps. International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment. 1 (3). pp. 277-296.

Haigh, R. & Amaratunga, D. (2010). An integrative review of the built environment discipline’s role in the development of society's resilience to disasters. International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment. 1 (1). pp. 11-24.