October 2019

Let them eat cake!
Let them eat cake!
Technical Lecture Series: Let them eat cake: engineering risk & responsibility in repair Synopsis Dr Kate Crawford will talk about her quest – in research and enterprise – to understand how engineers are embroiled...
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PSB as a Shelter Cluster Working Group
PSB as a Shelter Cluster Working Group
  This year, the Promoting Safer Building project was adopted by the Global Shelter Cluster. The Global Shelter Cluster The Global Shelter Cluster (GSC) is an Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) coordination mechanism that supports...
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Global Challenges Research Fund Translations Award funding announced for a new project researching how best to support ‘Self-Recovery’ in the Humanitarian Shelter Response.

This project, led by the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice at Oxford Brookes and CARE International UK and in partnership with Catholic Relief Services, Habitat for Humanity, CRAterre and the British Geological Survey, builds on previous research focused on understanding how housing self-recovery works to develop guidance and tools, which will help operational agencies support the process