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
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Seminar title |
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| 7 January 2026 | Richard Dawson | Newcastle University | Coupled Human-Natural Systems Modelling for Flood Resilience
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| 4 February 2026 | Chris Bean & Hamish Wilkinson | University of Bristol | Chronic flooding drives cumulative exposure inequalities across cities globally & Tropical cyclone surge emulation using machine learning
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| 11 March 2026 | Matt Palmer & Jennifer Weeks | Met Office | Sea Level Storylines to Inform Coastal Adaptation Planning and Decision-Making for the UK |
| 1 April 2026 | Christian Kenwright & Lily Sharp | University of Southampton | Tidal Time Machine: Recovering Historical Tide Records from the Clyde Estuary & Compounding and Cascading Drivers of UK Household Inland Flood Impacts: A Systematic Review
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| 6 May 2026 | Michael Lomotey | University of Southampton | Are flood experiences of Hull’s Black community redolent of antiblackness in policy and practice? |
| 3 June 2026 | Sarah Drummond & Henry Rong | Newcastle University | Optimising gully blocks to reduce flood discharge & Spatial optimisation of catchment-wide natural flood management strategies
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| 1 July 2026 | Peter Robins | Bangor University | Should we resolve estuaries in national scale coupled land-ocean models? |
| 5 August 2026 | Chloe Combs & Joe Haines | University of Southampton & Newcastle University | Flood Gardens: Ruin, Resilience and Renewal in a Wet World & Improved hydrodynamic modelling with UAV-derived topography and bathymetry |
| 2 September 2026 | Katie Parsons | Loughborough University | Flood Stories: Intergenerational, Inclusive and Creative Conversations
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| 7 October 2026 | Pamela Jemio & Fardis Pourezza | Newcastle University & University of Southampton | An Integrated Framework for Resilient Flood Risk Management in Data-scarce Watersheds & Understanding process interactions that cause wave overtopping for hazard managers
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| 4 November 2026 | Blueheart Team (Eleanor, Maja, Tegan) | Blueheart Team | Resilience for the uncommitted (or unconvinced) |
| 2 December 2026 | Nurul (Taza) Tazaroh | University of Southampton | An approach to integrating tide gauge and multi-satellite data to see how sea levels vary spatiotemporally in coastal regions |