FLOOD-CDT is proud to present our ongoing seminar series. Hosted by our very own doctoral researchers, and delivered by academic and industry specialists from the flooding, water and environmental sectors – we warmly welcome anyone to join. 

Seminars are typically delivered on the first Wednesday of every month. 

To receive monthly invites to our seminars, please register here:

We want our seminars to be accessible for everyone, and we encourage you to look at our 2025 schedule below:
 

Date

Speaker

Institution

Seminar title

8 January 2025

(recording available)

Lucy Bricheno

National Oceanography Centre (Liverpool)

Flood risk from sea waves in a changing climate

5 February 2025

(recording available)

Jed Ramsay

Buckinghamshire Council – Project Groundwater

Project Groundwater – the Forgotten Flooding

5 March 2025

(recording available)

Patrick Ebel

European Space Agency

Deep learning for short-to medium-range forecasting of storm surges and (near-) coastal floods

7 April 2025

(recording available)

Hannah Bloomfield

Newcastle University

Climate change impacts on the UK energy sector

7 May 2025

(recording available)

Charlotte Lyddon

Liverpool University

Sensitivity of estuaries to climate hazards

11 June 2025

Sara Alexander

Environment Agency

Rescuing orphan hydrometric data

2 July 2025

Tom Coulthard

Hull University

Digital twins for hydrology and flood management

6 August 2025

Jack Heslop

University of East Anglia

Global impacts of sea level rise to 2300

3 September 2025

Louise Slater

Oxford University

Strengths, weaknesses and future challenges or machine learning for fluvial flood hydrology

1 October 2025

Paul Sayers 

Sayers & Partners

A coherent approach to assessing the opportunity for natural flood management to contribute to fluvial flood risk reduction across Great Britain

5 November 2025

Richard Dawson

Newcastle University

Coupled human-natural systems modelling for flood resilience

3 December 2025

Katie Parsons

Loughborough University

Flood stories: intergenerational, inclusive and creative conversations

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Moreover, if you are interested in delivering a seminar for FLOOD-CDT, we’d love to hear from you. Please email floodcdt@soton.ac.uk and we can discuss further. 

Recordings of our previous seminars are available here.