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Resilience

Resilience

The Resilience Research theme is a cluster of multi-disciplinary collaborations focused on the theme of resilience.

The project commenced with a joint online workshop in May 2021 which brought together academics from both universities to identify common interests and funding opportunities. The focus of the workshop was climate and environmental resilience, resilient societies, resilient organisations, and resilient infrastructure and sustainable cities.

There is now a programme of on-line and face to face events in place that provide researchers from across multiple disciplines with an opportunity to come together to tackle some of the key issues arising from rapidly changing economic, social, and natural environments as well those that have been raised by the Covid-19 pandemic. Current subthemes are:

  • Resilient Building and infrastructure
  • Innovations for Resilience
  • Territorial/ Community Resilience
  • Data Modelling for risk and vulnerability

Click here to read more about previous resilience events.

To find out how to get more involved in the seminar series and partnership with UGA please contact the Global Engagement team.

Vulnerable communities and resilience approaches

Vulnerable communities and resilience approaches: Toward a more inclusive risk governance

A one-day conference including speakers from both Swansea and Grenoble was held at UGA on Friday, June 23rd 2023.

Swansea visit to Grenoble

In June 2023, UGA hosted a delegation of Swansea academics to further develop the Resilience theme.

The morning session focused on each institution’s research structures and explored common funding opportunities. The afternoon session took the form of four discussion groups each exploring a separate theme. Focus areas were:

  • Resilient Building and infrastructure
  • Innovations for Resilience
  • Territorial/ Community Resilience
  • Data Modelling for risk and vulnerability

Innovations for Resilience workshops

Swansea staff were invited to participate in UGA's 2022-2023 workshops series "Innovations for Resilience" hosted by the Grenoble Risk Institute and the SFR Innovacs:

  • Putting innovation back into society: what's the plan ?
  • Thermalism, vulnerability and territories - The evolution of the municipal government of thermalism and its implications on the offer and the image of the thermal towns
  • Territorial Ecology and Socio-ecological Transition - Innovations for vulnerable territories: sustainable development as an opportunity for new patterns?
  • Innovations in Crisis Management and Response: digital humanitarians and early warning, early action systems
  • The participatory patient in the geriatric health living lab
  • Making, experimenting and documenting low tech. The Farmer fablab case
  • Frugal Innovation in a Crisis (Digital Fabrication and Resilient Manufacturing)
  • E-Health & Health Crisis: Teleconsultation Devices - Caregivers’ perspectives
  • E-Health & Health Crisis: Teleconsultation Devices - Caregivers’ perspectives
  • The digitization of public action - Citizens’ inclusion issues