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@AHRCpress funded project based @UniofHull using arts, learning histories & heritage to work with communities to build flood resilience. PI @brionymcdonagh

Hull, United Kingdom
Joined August 2020
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Great piece on the BBC news pages about the Risky Cities project and the value of arts-led engagement to drive climate action and flood resilience👇👇
Hull's flood stories highlighted in university art event bbc.in/3A7masd
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A great list of @UniOfHull 2024 highlights, including the EEI-led UK Coastal Resilience Network and co-led @EPSRC CDT in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience. Here's to 2025! #OSWCDT #CoastRNetwork
We set standards globally through our research in 2024. Here’s just a few highlights 👇🧵 🧠 £11m awarded for a our addiction & mental health research centre. 🔬 Pioneered the first ever guidelines for stem cell based embryo use. 🫶 Tackling experiences of poverty in Hull.
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Many thanks to our #PhD researchers from the @LeverhulmeTrust DSC for Water Cultures @UniOfHull for organising the 3rd annual conference - a great day with external speakers and exciting presentations and posters from our students. Congratulations all! hull.ac.uk/work-with-us/rese…
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Welcome to all our new postgraduate researchers starting their #phdjourney with us @UniofHull including new #AuraCDT @PanoramaDTP, Fluid Dynamics and @LeverhulmeTrust DSC for Water Cultures students
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Best of luck to @drnicholasevansand @Hull_Museums who, with members of the Wilberforce House Museum Advisory Board, have been shortlisted for the @timeshighered Knowledge Exchange/Transfer Initiative of the Year category in the 2024 #THEAwards: timeshighereducation.com/new…
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Come join us for this! The launch of the @UKRI_News and @DefraGovUK funded Resilient Coastal Communities & Seas Programme and coordinating Coast-R Network, Wed 6 Nov @UniOfHull. Register via Eventbrite eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-resil… Pls RT. #coasts #seas #marine #resilience #community
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The planters on our beautiful campus provide vibrant splashes of colour but they also conceal sustainable drainage systems that both keep things lush and green, and help us to research and manage surface water @UniofHull #SuDSlab
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After a quick coffee break, we’re on with part 2 of our Creative Participatory Mapping session. Paper 4 is @Edward_Brookes_ et al on ‘Mapping Memories of Coastal Erosion’ on the E York coast, working with the @East_Riding Council’s Changing Coasts team
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Paper 6 is @HannahWorthen and @AlexOsborne_Geo on ‘Water Data for People: Using Participatory Mapping for Socio-Hydraulic Modelling’. The project explores using data from monitored sustainable drainage schemes to engage communities & young people in #climateaction
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Finally, another participatory session led by @christiankeeve on ‘Experiments in Deep Seed Time Mapping’. First Q: what’s your earliest or most significant memory of a seed? as an opening for exploring counter-cartographies of agrobiodiversity
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Standing room only for a 9am session on the first morning of #rgs2024 for the Creative Participatory Mapping for Climate & Environmental Change session! First up: @criscapiner of University of Siena talking about participatory mapping and citizen science in Tuscany
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Paper 3 is by @sforrest1, Aviv Kruglanski & co-authors on ‘Climate Dialogue Mapping for a Climate Resilient & Net Zero Hull’. Steven talks briefly about the project then gets everyone started with a hands on activity mapping our journeys to #RGSIBG24 this morning
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Felt tip pens at the ready! Creative participatory mapping in practice in session 1 this morning, led by @sforrest1 #rgs2024 #climateaction #Hull #mapping #envhums
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If you live in Derringham and have any questions about flood resilience in the area, please come to our Drop-In Event at Fred Moore Library today. #BeFloodAware #ProtectYourHome 💧
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The Flood Recovery Game developed by our Mapping Flood Recovery Gaps team will be featured at the @RGS_IBG Conference on 30th August! 🎉 We'll demonstrate serious gaming as a powerful tool in research and disaster recovery - join our workshop: rgs.org/research/annual-inte…
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New paper out today! 🚨Written by the wonderful Kate Smith, @BrionyMcDonagh and I - which discusses the role of place-based art 🎨in being able to drive community engagement and action in relation to flood and climate issues. 🌍 Check it out 👇👇 tinyurl.com/2hr42j6h
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It’s always a delight to see our former PhD students use their research, working on some of society’s greatest challenges. In this blog, @SaphiaFleury introduces her two-year project on climate change and human migration. hull.ac.uk/research/institut…
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Colleagues at @EEIatHull invite Hull residents to delve into historical documents, and share stories about their experiences and feelings about water at three Community Waterscapes workshops in July, in partnership with @HullMaritime & @LivingWithH2O eventbrite.co.uk/o/universit…
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I’m proud that we’ll lead a network to generate knowledge, action, and resilience for UK coastal communities. The £2m COAST-R Network will be headed by Prof @BrionyMcDonagh. It unites @UniversityLeeds @UofGlasgow @LivUni @unisouthampton @AberUni. Read: hull.ac.uk/work-with-us/more…
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