GDRC members have secured a number of significant, high profile grants and plans are in place to actively respond to current and emerging opportunities, thereby continuing research to improve the knowledge gap between the short term recovery and long term re-construction efforts associated with major disasters; raise awareness and develop skills; set up mechanisms for the transference of knowledge to the market, government and professionals; develop tools specific to each type of disasters; map gender relations and time use; assess access to and control of resources, and the different coping strategies, vulnerabilities and capabilities of men and women; and enhance the role of women as owners, users and creators of the built environment, including situations associated with pre-disaster and post-disaster.
Further, together with colleagues, funding will be sought from schemes such as Horizon 2020 and Erasmus + scheme. These proposals would generate an excellent focus for: identifying, capturing and disseminating skills and good practices; sharing accumulated knowledge from global experiences; developing common tools and mechanisms; and, promoting post-disaster recovery as a research area. As part of this bidding activity, GDRC is keen to give opportunities to junior researchers. Funding that will be obtained will help them to further expand the critical mass, as well as to expand our work in new directions and develop new international collaborations.
GDRC is leading and contributing to several major research projects, including:
Upstream-downstream interface
A study of upstream-downstream interface in end-to-end tsunami early warning and mitigation systems
Coastal Urban Agglomeration Policy
Mainstreaming integrated disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation strategies into coastal urban agglomeration policy
CABARET
Capacity Building in Asia for Resilience Education
Localising Strategies
Localising Strategies for Making Cities Resilient to Disasters
CRESCENDO
Community Resilience Engaging Society, Culture, and Environment against Disaster Outcomes
ASCENT
Advancing Skill Creation to Enhance Transformation
Ensuring Accountability
Ensuring Accountability in Disaster Risk Management and Reconstruction
CADRE
Collaborative Action towards Disaster Resilience Education
Coastal Communities
Development of disaster resilient coastal communities to enhance economic development and social welfare
Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka
Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka: Ten Years On
Tsunami Exercises in Indian Ocean Countries
Enhancing Tsunami Risk Assessment and Management, Strengthening Policy Support and Developing Guidelines
CASCADE
Collaborative Action towards Societal Challenges through Awareness, Development and Education
ANDROID
Academic Network for Disaster Resilience to Optimise educational Development
Critical Road Infrastructure
Enhancing resilience of critical road infrastructure: bridges, culverts and flood ways
RESINT
Collaborative reformation of curricula on resilience management with intelligent systems in open source and augmented reality
CENEAST
Reformation of the Curricula on Built Environment in the Eastern Neighbouring Area