Prof. Bingunath Ingirige joins GDRC
Tue, 07 Jun 2016 09:46:00 BST
We are delighted to announce that Prof. Bingu Ingirige is the latest member of our growing team at the Global Disaster Resilience Centre. Bingu joins the School of Art Design & Architecture as Chair in Project Management and Resilience. He joins us from the School of the Built Environment at the University of Salford and brings with him considerable experience of research and scholarly activities in community resilience, including several studies on communities in the UK.
Bingu has extensive experience of investigating resilience measures of small businesses, the private sector and other stakeholder collaborative engagement processes. He was a co-investigator of the EPSRC funded Community Resilience to Extreme Weather (CREW) project, where he led his team in investigating resilience of small businesses against extreme weather events. He has also led a RICS Research trust funded project that looked into the recovery of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in Cockermouth Cumbria. In a recent project, Bingu profiled the resilience and adaptation measures of a small business community in Braunton, North Devon after their devastating flood event in 2012. Via these initiatives, he has worked very closely with several stakeholders in the area of flood resilience and adaptation.
He is currently a co-investigator of the EU Horizon 2020 funded EU-CIRCLE project that looks into critical infrastructure resilience. He is also an investigator of the CIOB’s Bowen Jenkins legacy research funded project that looks into sustainability of post disaster housing in Sri Lanka.
Bingu has published widely and among his publications is a background paper titled “private investment and disaster risk management” as part of UNISDR’s 2015 Global Assessment Report (GAR). He is also a contributing author of the report of the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (UK CCRA) on business and industry. Prof. Ingirige is a member of the Flooding and Insurance Working Group of the RICS and also served as a member of the Salford Strategic Flood Forum, which is led by the Salford City Council and was established as a response to the Pitt Review on the 2007 floods.
In the coming months and years, our research community will hear more about Prof. Ingirige’s work at GDRC, where he will lead its resilience and small businesses theme.
