Dr Selin Tekin reflects on the first event in the Rising Together series, hosted by the BPS Social Psychology Section.

Some initially assumed the commotion was a Halloween prank, but soon realised something awful was unfolding

Survivors in Valencia call for consequences, particularly for regional president, after country’s worst natural disaster this century

Welsh voters have rejected Labour and Starmerite managerialism. By offering hope and not division we showed the populist right can be beaten, says Rhun ap Iorwerth, leader of Plaid Cymru

Pushing more responsibility for disaster response onto the states will mean depending more on private contractors.

Temperatures of 44C predicted as blazes rage across Europe

A new study published by Transport for London (TfL) has shown that the introduction of 20mph speed limits and zones on local authority-managed roads in London between 1989 and 2013 led to significant…

Each NATO member country needs to be resilient in order to withstand a major shock such as a natural disaster, failure of critical infrastructure, or a hybrid or armed attack. Resilience is the indivi...

Crowd behaviour in emergencies has previously been explained in terms of either ‘mass panic’ or strength of pre-existing social bonds. The present paper reports results from a study comparing high- v...

This guidance is primarily focussed on Vehicle As a Weapon (VAW) detection technology as part of NPSA’s wider Vehicle Borne Threats, HVM and MTA programmes of work

When I first read Professor Lucy Easthope’s first book When the Dust Settles we hadn’t met, and yet I suddenly felt like I knew her so well. She wrote candidly and honestly about her life in disast…

NCE and Fathom brought experts together for a debate about how we achieve a better understanding of flood risk, and what can be done about it

Some thoughts on strengthening national resilience, by increasing highway-sector preparedness for emergencies

Windstorms are the leading cause of major power outages in the UK, primarily due to windthrow - the uprooting or breakage of trees by strong winds - which then fall on overhead power lines.

Rivers are dynamic, with channel size and shape adapting to fluctuations in water and sediment supplied from their upstream catchments. These changes directly affect flood conveyance capacity, yet sed...

Show Me the Bodies: Lucy Easthope and Peter Apps on Grenfell Tower. In this interview, originally recorded for At Your Own Peril – a five-part series about the history of risk that was broadcast on BB...

This study proposes a novel approach to improve the classification of severe building losses caused by river floods (i.e., identification of buildings with high flood damages). In addition to traditio...

Journalist, author, conspiracy expert

Five members of the same family died trying to escape a storm on South Uist in 2005.

Consultant - Disaster Risk Reduction

An interdisciplinary team of researchers has projected that if the rate of global CO2 emissions continues to increase and reaches a high emission scenario, sea levels would as a result very likely ris...