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UPCOMING EVENT : Conference: 5th Global Congress on Climate Change

A Participatory Action Research strategy to elicit stakeholders’ requirements in the development of a decision support system for natural disasters.

Mariantonietta Morga1, Nadeeshani Wanigarathna1, Keith Jones1, Femke Mulder2 and Ephraim Zulu1
1Anglia Ruskin University
2 University College London

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PAST EVENTS: Engineering and the Built Environment Futures Conference

Chelmsford, 4 July 2025, Anglia Ruskin University
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Road vulnerability to flood disasters in Essex

Dr Mariantonietta Morga1, Mahdi Jahangard1, Dr Nadeeshani Wanigarathna1

Amplified burden of flood risk due to social vulnerabilities

Dr Nadeeshani Wanigarathna1, Dr Mariantonietta Morga1, Dr Ephraim Zulu1, Prof Keith Jones1

A participatory action research in development process of a decision support system for natural disasters

Dr Mariantonietta Morga1, Dr Nadeeshani Wanigarathna1, Prof Keith Jones1

Launch of MEDiate Web-based Platform for Multihazard Risk Assessment in Essex

Chelmsford, 12 June 2025
Type of activity: Dissemination and Participatory Research
Anglia Ruskin University organised the workshop in collaboration with Essex County Council and with the support of EUCENTRE and NORSAR. It aimed to test the MEDiate Decision-support system (DSS) for multi-hazard local and regional disaster risk management; to explore how the platform can add value and support the current regional decision-making for disaster risk in Essex; and to analyse opportunities and challenges of using the DSS platform in practice. 

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Enhancing community resilience to multi-hazard risks workshop – MEDiate Project

Cambridge ARU campus and MSTeams, 11 June 2025.
Type of activity: Dissemination and Participatory Research
The workshop was organised by Anglia Ruskin University. It had the purpose of presenting the MEDiate Decision-support system (DSS) for local and regional multi-hazard disaster risk management to experts in the sectors, of sharing knowledge and looking at advancing multi-hazard risk assessment in practice in Disaster Risk Management with them, and networking.

MEDiate Project: Infrastructure and Social Vulnerability to Floods in Essex – Chelmsford Science Festival

Chelmsford, 28 October 2024
Type of activity:  Dissemination
The talk, organised by Anglia Ruskin University, aimed to present the MEDiate project to the general public, including its Participatory Action Research backbone, the vulnerability of the Canvey Island (Essex) road network to flood events, and the Essex Social Vulnerability Index for floods. 

Essex Stakeholder Workshop on Interacting Disasters and Disaster Risk Management (MEDiate)

Chelmsford, 19 June 2024
Type of activity: Participatory Research
The workshop was co-hosted by Essex County Council and Anglia Ruskin University, with the collaboration of the University College London and the University of Strathclyde. It aimed to characterise the stakeholders and gather their preferences about the MEDiate platform for multi-hazard indicators and risk and resilience metrics.

Conference: UKADR 2023
Huddersfield, 18 and 19 December 2023

Type of activity: Dissemination
conference presentation: MEDiate project stakeholders’ engagement: reflections after the first Participatory Research Action Cycle

Dr Mariantonietta Morga1,Dr Nadeeshani Wanigarathna1 , Prof Keith Jones1, Femke Mulder1
1Anglia Ruskin University
2 University College London