School of Business
Crisis and Disaster Risk Management
Co-leads: Dr Ayse Yildiz and Dr Jamie Wardman
‘Disasters’ and ‘crises’ associated with natural, human and technological systems are common place in the modern world. Accordingly, societies need to be better able to reduce the risks and prepare to cope with worst-case scenarios. The Crisis and Disaster Risk Management (CDRM) group will address the most pressing ‘crisis and disaster risk management’ challenges (i.e. the UN’s SDGs). We will develop strategic transdisciplinary research capability (within ULSB and across the University) that is needed for the sustainable enhancement of more resilient societies, commerce, and developmental practices by integrating activities across all the risk management phases. Our research will foster cutting-edge and impactful research through externally funded projects and through joint PhD supervisions. The CDRM Research Group will achieve this by working with local and national stakeholders to maximise the relevance and impacts of our work, through the following objectives:
- delivering excellent transdisciplinary research that will generate whole-system decision-support to help inform strategic decision-makers/stakeholders who are facing multiple, interacting challenges impacting societies in the UK, across Europe and globally;
- promoting scientific understanding and theoretical development of uncertainty, risk creation and complexity in the (re)development and management of resilient and sustainable societies; and
- enabling scientifically informed decision-making that can proactively address risks to society and the complex systems that society has become so reliant upon.
People
Dr Jamie Wardman
Dr Ayse Yildiz
Professor Lee Bosher
Professor Nibedita Ray-Bennett
Dr Georgios Patsiaouras
Dr Ayman Omar
Dr William Darler
Dr Lucy Ferdous
Professor John Maltby
Professor Heiko Balzer
Muhammad Asad Tahir
Aliasghar Aliakbari
Selected publications
2025
Bryce, C. , Dowling, M., Long, S. & Wardman, J. K. (2025). Media amplification under the floodlight: Contextualising 20 years of US risk news. Risk Analysis, https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.17701
Yeboah, R., Ferdous, L. T., Gerged, A. M., & Liu, Z. (2025). Corporate response to catastrophic events: An analysis of executive compensation strategies following Hurricane Katrina disasters. Journal of Accounting Literature. ISSN 0737-4607
2024
Yildiz, A., Shaw, R. (eds). 2024. Disaster and Climate Risk Education Insights from Knowledge to Action. Springer Nature Singapore. 2196-4114 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-5987-3
Guan, L., Merigó, J.M., Löfstedt, R.E. and Wardman, J.K., (2024). Twenty-five years of the Journal of Risk Research: a bibliometric overview. Journal of Risk Research, pp.1-44. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13669877.2024.2377093
Yildiz, A. & Shaw, R. (2024). Perspective on future directions of risk-informed education: lessons from Japan and Türkiye. Journal of Risk Research, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2024.2368187
2023
Yildiz, A., Dickinson, J., Priego-Hernández, J., Teeuw, R. & Shaw, R. (2023). Effects of disaster education on children's risk perception and preparedness: A quasi-experimental longitudinal study. The Geographical Journal, 00, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12556
Chmutina K., Von Meding J., Lizarralde G., and Bosher L.S. (2023), ‘Standardised indicators for ‘resilient cities’: The folly of devising a technical solution to a political problem’, International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, April 2023 https://doi.org/10.1108/IJDRBE-10-2022-0099
Hill B., Liang Q., Bosher L.S., Chen H. and A. Nicholson, (2023), ‘A systematic review of Natural Flood Management modelling; approaches, limitations, and potential solutions’, Journal of Flood Risk Management, e12899 https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12899
Ray-Bennett NS, Clarke K, Mendez D (2022) Sendai framework’s global targets A and B: opinions from the global platform for disaster risk reduction’s ignite stage 2019. Int J Disaster Risk Sci 13:651–663. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-022-00432-3
Williams S.N., Dienes K., Jaheed J., Wardman J.K., Petts J. (2023). Effectiveness of communications in enhancing adherence to public health behavioural interventions: a COVID-19 evidence review. Phil.Trans.R.Soc. A381: 20230129.https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2023.0129