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UK Alliance for Disaster Research (UKADR) Annual Conference 4-5 September 2025

Programme Schedule (Tentative)

(A fuller programme will be posted 25 August 2025)

Day 0 (pre-conference) – Wednesday 3 September 2025

15:00-17:00 Pre-Conference Skills Session for ECRs (but all welcome): Using AI Ethically in Research and Manuscript Preparation: Reflections and Examples with a Hazard and Risk perspective. See here (opens in new window) for further information and sign up (separate from conference registration).

Day 1 – Thursday 4 September 2025

Time

Session

09:00 – 09:30

Registration and Welcome Coffee

09:30 – 10:30

Panel Debate 1 (Interactive, audience engagement encouraged)

10:30 – 11:20

Pop-up Talks Session 1 (2-minute, 1-slide presentations)

11:20 – 11:30

[Transition to Poster Session]

11:30 – 12:30

Poster / Idea Wall Session 1 + Coffee

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 13:45

[Transition to Breakout Rooms]

13:45 – 14:35

Breakout Session 1 (Small groups, 7–10 people)

14:35 – 14:50

[Return from Breakouts]

14:50 – 15:40

Plenary Feedback and Discussion 1

15:40 – 15:50

[Transition to Poster Session]

15:50 – 16:50

Poster / Idea Wall Session 2 + Coffee

16:50 – 17:00

[Walk to Icebreaker]

17:00 – 18:30

Icebreaker Networking Event

 

Day 2 – Friday 5 September 2025

Time

Session

09:00 – 10:00

Panel Debate 2 (Interactive format, themes TBD)

10:00 – 10:50

Pop-up Talks Session 2

10:50 – 11:00

[Transition to Poster Session]

11:00 – 12:00

Poster / Idea Wall Session 3 + Coffee

12:00 – 13:00

UKADR General Steering Committee Meeting

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 14:15

[Transition to Breakout Rooms]

14:15 – 15:05

Breakout Session 2

15:05 – 15:20

[Return from Breakouts]

15:20 – 16:10

Plenary Feedback and Discussion 2

16:10 – 16:30

Closing and Thank You

 

For a description of activity types, abstract submission, and volunteering visit Abstract Submission and Participation

Programme Themes

  1. Climate, Environment, and the Drivers of Dynamic Risk

1.1 Understanding Dynamic Risk and Resilience in a Changing Climate 

1.2 Multi-Hazard Interrelationships and Compound Hazards: Cascades, Crises, Disasters, and Systemic Consequences 

  1. Place-Based and Context-Specific Approaches to Resilience

2.1 Urban Risk and Resilience in Megacities 

2.2 UK-Based Interdisciplinary Disaster Research: From Knowledge to Resilience and Practice 

  1. Human-Made Hazards and Technological Transitions

3.1 Anthropogenic and Technological Hazards: Research and Practice Perspectives 

  1. Connecting Science, Policy, and Society

4.1 The Science–Policy–Public Interface: Breaking Down Silos for Resilience 

4.2 Education, Training, and Public Engagement for Disaster Resilience 

  1. Innovation and Emerging Tools for Interdisciplinary Hazard and Disaster Science: AI, Remote Sensing, Serious Games, Big Data, and others

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