New film series kicks off by exploring uncertainty and resilience
A premiere screening of Resilience Engineered Episode 1: ‘Preparing for an uncertain future’ is taking place on Wednesday 22 September 2021 17.00-18.00 BST at New York Climate Week.
Tag: education
Economic viability and resilient communities – how to measure resilience meaningfully
How do you measure resilience? The Resilience Shift talks to resilience pioneer, Dr Murali Chandrashekaran, about why people do the things they do, and the need for a human-centred approach to resilience – along with solid data to support it.
‘Lessons learned’ and the changing face of engineering
Professor Paul Jowitt shares his reflections on what makes an engineer today, why ‘lessons learned’ about failure don’t seem to be, and how systems thinking is fundamental to resilience.
Covid’s disruptive influences… and seizing the opportunity
How can the disruption resulting from Covid-19 teach us to be more resilient to future crises and uncertainties? We share insights from the Engineering a Safer Future: Learning from crisis series of roundtables in partnership with Lloyd’s Register Foundation.
Thinking about studying infrastructure resilience?
Why not start by exploring our list of resilience-related infrastructure education specialisations, departments and courses. For a relatively new academic subject, the choices are extensive.
“Resilience resonates with people… we know we are vulnerable”
Course Director of Cambridge’s Construction Engineering Masters, Dr Kristen MacAskill, tells us what’s on her mind, lessons learned from the resilience round-tables, and the challenges for resilience as a discipline.
Exploring ways to create change
What are the key drivers of a change in practice to more resilient infrastructure? This question has been front of mind during May.
Mapping where to study infrastructure resilience
For those interested in studying infrastructure-related resilience, there are opportunities world-wide to undertake undergraduate and postgraduate education.
