Holistic Urban Resilience (HARMONISE) – enhancing the security, resilience and sustainability of large scale urban built infrastructure
Planning Responses to Urban Shock – enhancing the adaptive capacity of urban and regional systems to respond to disruption in the UK and Japan
Designing Safer Urban Spaces (DESURBS) – developing design-based tools to protect crowded urban areas from security threats and natural hazards
Critical Local Infrastructure Resilience – exploring radically different ways of adapting and valuing infrastructure to make it resilient in an uncertain future.
Olympic and Mega-Event Security – highlighting the material, social and economic implications of urban areas hosting and securing mega-events
Resilient Communities – investigated how principles of resilience can be embedded within local communities
Resilient Design (RE-DESIGN) – explored effective and socially acceptable counter-terrorism solutions in crowded public palces
Radicalisation and Resilience investigated how the construction of ‘shared spaces’ can mediate community conflict
Energy Security, Risk and Resilience – explored how future energy supplies will be risk-managed
The Everyday Resilience of the City – investigated how urban security has been normalised through a discourse of resilience
Terrorism, Risk and the City – explored how the financial zones of London coped with terrorsim in the 1990’s