FLOOD-CDT is proud to present our ongoing seminar series, delivered monthly by academic and industry specialists from the flooding, water and environmental sectors as well as our very own doctoral researchers.

Seminars are typically delivered online via Teams webinar format on the first Wednesday of every month and cover an expansive range of topics around flooding. Everyone is welcome to register and attend.

To receive monthly invites to our seminars, please register here

You can access recordings of our past seminars here.

2026 Seminar Schedule

 

DateSpeakerInstitutionSeminar title
7 January 2026Richard DawsonNewcastle University

Coupled Human-Natural Systems Modelling for Flood Resilience

 

4 February 2026

Chris Bean

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Hamish Wilkinson

University of Bristol

Chronic flooding drives cumulative exposure inequalities across cities globally

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Tropical cyclone surge emulation using machine learning

 

11 March 2026

Matt Palmer

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Jennifer Weeks

Met OfficeSea Level Storylines to Inform Coastal Adaptation Planning and Decision-Making for the UK
1 April 2026

Christian Kenwright

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Lily Sharp

University of Southampton

Tidal Time Machine: Recovering Historical Tide Records from the Clyde Estuary

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Compounding and Cascading Drivers of UK Household Inland Flood Impacts: A Systematic Review

 

6 May 2026Michael LomoteyUniversity of SouthamptonAre flood experiences of Hull’s Black community redolent of antiblackness in policy and practice?
3 June 2026

Sarah Drummond

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Henry Rong

Newcastle University

Optimising gully blocks to reduce flood discharge

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Spatial optimisation of catchment-wide natural flood management strategies

 

1 July 2026Peter RobinsBangor UniversityShould we resolve estuaries in national scale coupled land-ocean models?
5 August 2026

Chloe Combs

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Joe Haines

University of Southampton

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Newcastle University

Flood Gardens: Ruin, Resilience and Renewal in a Wet World

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Improved hydrodynamic modelling with UAV-derived topography and bathymetry

2 September 2026Katie ParsonsLoughborough University

Flood Stories: Intergenerational, Inclusive and Creative Conversations

 

7 October 2026

Pamela Jemio

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Fardis Pourezza

Newcastle University

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University of Southampton

An Integrated Framework for Resilient Flood Risk Management in Data-scarce Watersheds

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Understanding process interactions that cause wave overtopping for hazard managers

 

4 November 2026Blueheart Team (Eleanor, Maja, Tegan)Blueheart TeamResilience for the uncommitted (or unconvinced)
2 December 2026Nurul (Taza) TazarohUniversity of SouthamptonAn approach to integrating tide gauge and multi-satellite data to see how sea levels vary spatiotemporally in coastal regions