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Biography
Professor Richard Haigh joined the University of Huddersfield in 2014 as Co-Director of the Global Disaster Resilience Centre, now located in the Department of Biological and Geographic Sciences, School of Applied Sciences. This multi-disciplinary Centre is committed to excellence in research and collaboration to improve the resilience of nations and communities to disasters.
Richard was previously a Professor at the University of Salford, where he studied and worked for 20 years. He undertook a degree in Construction Management before commencing his doctoral studies in 1998, which focused on the development of a process capacity maturity model for the construction industry. Richard worked as a research assistant and fellow in several major EPSRC and NHS funded projects prior to joining the University as a lecturer in 2003. Richard went on to contribute to a wide range of teaching and research activities at Salford’s School of the Built Environment, while also serving in several School management roles, including as Director of Research Training and Co-Director of Postgraduate Research for the School’s 200+ PhD students. Richard became a Professor in 2012 and prior to joining Huddersfield in 2014, was Acting Associate Head of Research & Innovation at Salford’s School of the Built Environment, No.1 in Research Power at the last RAE for Architecture and the Built Environment.
In 2019, Richard won the Newton Prize for Indonesia, in collaboration with his colleagues, Professor Dilanthi Amaratunga, and and Dr Harkunti Rahayu from Institut Teknologi Bandung, for a project that is helping to protect coastal communities from the devastation caused by coastal hazards such as flooding and tsunamis.
Research Expertise and Interests
His research interests are in field of disaster resilience in the built environment, with a focus on disaster risk governance and accountability, multi-hazard early warning and the last mile, convergence of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaption, and post-conflict reconstruction.
Research Expertise and Interests
- Disaster Management
- Natural Hazards
- Disaster Preparedness
- Disaster Planning
- Disaster Risk Reduction
- Disaster Risk Governance
- Disaster Studies
- Early Warning
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Projects
ESPREssO: Enhancing Synergies for disater PRevention in the EurOpean Union
1/05/16 → 31/10/18
Project: Research
Mainstreaming Integrated Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaption Strategies into Coastal Urban Agglomeration Policy
1/03/17 → 31/08/18
Project: Research
CENEAST: Reformation of the Curricula on Built Environment in the Eastern Neighbouring Area
15/10/12 → 14/10/15
Project: Research
Research Output
A micro scale study of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in coastal urban strategic planning for the Jakarta
Rahayu, H. P., Haigh, R., Amaratunga, D., Kombaitan, B., Khoirunnisa, D. & Pradana, V., 1 Jan 2020, In : International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment. 11, 1, p. 119-133 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
A study of people-centered early warning system in the face of near-field tsunami risk for Indonesian coastal cities
Rahayu, H. P., Comfort, L., Haigh, R., Amaratunga, D. & Khoirunnisa, D., 16 Jan 2020, In : International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment. 11, 2, p. 241-262 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
1
Citation
(Scopus)
How do we organise for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience? A Study on Disaster Risk Governance in Sri Lanka
Amaratunga, D., Malalgoda, C., Haigh, R. & De Silva, A., 1 Jan 2020, University of Huddersfield. 79 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
Open Access
Societal Impact of the Research Study on Governance of Upstream-Downstream Interface of Tsunami Early Warning - The Case of Sri Lanka
Dias, N., Amaratunga, D., Haigh, R., Premalal, S. & Basnayake, S., 19 Mar 2020, 2019 From Innovation to Impact (FITI). IEEE, 6 p. 9037636Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
The upstream-downstream interface of Sri Lanka’s tsunami early warning system
Haigh, R., Sakalasuriya, M., Amaratunga, D., Basnayake, S., Hettige, S., Premalal, S. & Jayasinghe Arachchi, A., 10 Jan 2020, In : International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment. 11, 2, p. 219-240 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Activities
9th International Conference on Building Resilience
Dilanthi Amaratunga (Member of programme committee), Richard Haigh (Member of programme committee)13 Jan 2020 → 15 Jan 2020
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participating in a conference, workshop, ...
4th International Workshop on Multi Hazard Early Warning for Coastal Resilience and 6th CABARET Steering Committee Meeting
Dias Hemachandra (Member of programme committee), Dilanthi Amaratunga (Chair), Richard Haigh (Chair)5 Jan 2020 → 10 Jan 2020
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participating in a conference, workshop, ...
Enablers for Effective Multihazard Early Warning System: A Literature Review
Dias Hemachandra (Speaker), Richard Haigh (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Dilanthi Amaratunga (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)12 Dec 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
10th International conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management
Dilanthi Amaratunga (Member of programme committee), Richard Haigh (Organiser)12 Dec 2019 → 14 Dec 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
High Level Forum on Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
Dilanthi Amaratunga (Organiser), Richard Haigh (Member of programme committee), Nuwan Dias (Organiser)12 Jul 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
Press / Media
BDC Magazine - Uni Takes Lead At International Conference On Building Resilience
Dilanthi Amaratunga & Richard Haigh
15/01/18
1 item of Media coverage, 1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
Boxing day Tsunami Disaster
Dilanthi Amaratunga & Richard Haigh
9/11/17
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
Global project to empower coastal communities
Dilanthi Amaratunga & Richard Haigh
31/07/17
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
Training for global agreements, Ceylon Today
Dilanthi Amaratunga & Richard Haigh
15/07/16
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
€1,000,000 Multi National-Project Will Reduce the Impact of Major Natural Disasters
Dilanthi Amaratunga & Richard Haigh
26/01/16
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research