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Richard Haigh is a Professor and Co-Director of the Huddersfield Centre for Disaster Resilience at the University of Huddersfield. He is the Founding Editor-In-Chief of the International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, Co-Chair of the 2008, 2011, 2013 and 2014 International Conferences on Building Resilience, Co-Chair of the 2014 CIB International Conference on Construction in a Changing World, and Co-Chair 2005-2007 International Postgraduate Research Conferences, held at Salford Quays, UK and Delft, the Netherlands.

Richard has secured sixteen research grants since 2005 in the areas of disaster resilience, construction management and education, covering issues such climate change adaptation, social impact of post-conflict reconstruction, gender, curricular development, knowledge management, capacity building for resilience, and education in the built environment. He was Principal Investigator of ANDROID (Academic Network for Disaster Resilience to Optimise Educational Development), a partnership of 67 institutions across 31 countries committed to promote co-operation and innovation to increase society’s resilience to disasters of human and natural origin. UNDRR was a key partner in the project. He was also Principal Investigator of Conflict Prevention through Infrastructure Reconstruction, a 12-month intervention to enhance the capacity of local stakeholders to deliver conflict sensitive infrastructure reconstruction programmes within the North and East of Sri Lanka, and thereby to help prevent future conflict in the region. The project was funded by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office through the British High Commission in Colombo. Most recently, Richard has been appointed as the UK lead organiser on developing resilient, connected communities to tackle coastal hazards, a British Council Newton Fund Researcher Links Workshop Grant to develop stronger links between the UK and Indonesia.

Richard has given over 50 invited speeches and keynote presentations for audiences in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Canada, Estonia, Lithuania, and South Africa. He has also published over 25 peer reviewed journal articles, 1 edited book, 7 book chapters, and 13 reports for a variety of stakeholders.

A full list of Richard’s publications, projects, and national and international activities can be found at www.richardhaigh.info.

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