IRDR Annual Conference 2023 – Risk Without Borders
Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre and Roberts Foyer
Roberts Engineering Building
Malet Place, off Torrington Place
London
WC1E 7JE
United Kingdom
- English
Time
9:00 am - 5:30 pm
What impact do borders – physical and metaphorical – mean for risk researchers and practitioners? The 13th IRDR Annual Conference will examine the definition of borders from multiple perspectives and how to overcome the challenges they pose.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
All
Cost
Free
Organiser
Sarah Jeal – UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction
About the event
Reducing disaster risk and the impact of humanitarian crises has many difficulties. One such challenge is working across, along or through borders, both physical and metaphorical, and overcoming the barriers these can impose. The 13th IRDR Annual Conference will examine the challenges and possible solutions that risk researchers and practitioners face when assessing, managing and reducing risk across different borders from multiple perspectives including economic and political formal and informal borders considering data, communication, collaboration, and diplomacy.
In addition to lively panel discussions, we will also welcome Professor Stefan Dercon from the Blavatkin School of Government, Oxford to give the keynote speech and Judge Mykola Gnatovskyy, European Court of Human Rights, in conversation with our own Dr Yulia Ioffe.
The conference will be followed by a drinks reception and PhD research exhibition.
Programme
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 09:00-09:15 | Welcome, Prof Joanna Faure Walker |
| 09:30-10:45 | Keynote: Stefan Dercon, Professor of Economic Policy, Blavatkin School of Government, Oxford [Chair: Dr Rozana Himaz, IRDR] |
| 10:45-11:15 | Break |
| 11:15- 12:45 | In Conversation: Judge Mykola Gnatovskyy, European Court of Human Rights [Chair: Dr Yulia Ioffe, IRDR] |
| 12:45-14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00-15:30 | Panel 1: Data Without Borders [Chairs: Dr Saman Ghaffarian, IRDR, and Dr Ting Sun, IRDR] Thanks to recent technological advances, we now have unprecedented access to an extensive range of data, encompassing diverse types, sizes, and volumes, complemented by advanced models like Artificial Intelligence and physical modelling techniques. Through remote sensing platforms and techniques, we can now collect data from the most remote areas, while physical modelling and AI methods enable the generation and utilisation of essential data and information. “While this abundance of data offers immense potential for applications in disaster risk reduction, it also gives rise to ethical concerns and necessitates novel approaches from AI and physical modelling to analyse and process these vast datasets.” |
| 15:30-16:00 | Break |
| 16:00-17:30 | Panel 2: Scientists beyond borders? [Chair: Prof Fatemeh Jalayer, IRDR]. Global warming and changing climate, pandemic, disasters, wars, and conflicts have touched our lives in quite different ways; and yet, no one has managed to remain unscathed. The challenges we face and the problems we try to solve as scientists and researchers, have already managed to transcend the boundaries and to span across the various divides. Our sole hope in tackling these challenges and in finding solutions again lies in scientific collaboration and knowledge exchange transcending borders and barriers of political, social, geographic, linguistic, physical, cultural, disciplinary, and sectoral nature. This discussion addresses the barriers to scientific collaboration and how they can be overcome by fostering access and open science initiatives, communication, dialogue, diplomacy, participation, engagement, and logistics. |
| 17:30-19:00 | IRDR PhD poster exhibition and networking reception |
Confirmed speakers
Welcome
Prof Joanna Faure Walker, UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR)
Keynote
Stefan Dercon, Professor of Economic Policy, Blavatkin School of Government, Oxford Chair: Dr Rozana Himaz, UCL IRDR
In Conversation [Chair: Dr Yulia Ioffe, UCL IRDR]
Judge Mykola Gnatovskyy, European Court of Human Rights Chair: Dr Yulia Ioffe, UCL IRDR
Panel 1: Data Without Borders [Chairs: Dr Saman Ghaffarian, IRDR, and Dr Ting Sun, IRDR]
Thanks to recent technological advances, we now have unprecedented access to an extensive range of data, encompassing diverse types, sizes, and volumes, complemented by advanced models like Artificial Intelligence and physical modelling techniques. Through remote sensing platforms and techniques, we can now collect data from the most remote areas, while physical modelling and AI methods enable the generation and utilisation of essential data and information. “While this abundance of data offers immense potential for applications in disaster risk reduction, it also gives rise to ethical concerns and necessitates novel approaches from AI and physical modelling to analyse and process these vast datasets.”
Panel 2: Scientists beyond borders [Chair: Prof Fatemeh Jalayer, UCL IRDR]
Global warming and changing climate, pandemic, disasters, wars, and conflicts have touched our lives in quite different ways; and yet, no one has managed to remain unscathed. The challenges we face and the problems we try to solve as scientists and researchers, have already managed to transcend the boundaries and to span across the various divides. Our sole hope in tackling these challenges and in finding solutions again lies in scientific collaboration and knowledge exchange transcending borders and barriers of political, social, geographic, linguistic, physical, cultural, disciplinary, and sectoral nature. This discussion addresses the barriers to scientific collaboration and how they can be overcome by fostering access and open science initiatives, communication, dialogue, diplomacy, participation, engagement, and logistics.
A full programme and details of expert speakers will be available here as they are confirmed.
Please note, this event will be livestreamed and available on the IRDR YouTube channel.