UKADR Conference 2024: Collaborative Research to Make a Difference

Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0NS
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About this Event

The UK Alliance for Disaster Reduction (UKADR) 2024 Conference is hosted by the UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction. The conference brings together academics, practitioners and funders interested in disaster risk reduction. This year, there will be 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 flash talks from early career researchers and practitioners to share current work, findings and challenges. Speakers include Frank Savage, Chairman of Commonwealth Disaster Agency and Former Governor of Montserrat; Hélène Galy, MD at WTW Research Network and Adnan Khan, Chief Economist FCDO, LSE.