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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 | Lucy Bricheno | National Oceanography Centre (Liverpool) | Flood risk from sea waves in a changing climate |
5 February 2025 | Jed Ramsay | Buckinghamshire Council – Project Groundwater | Project Groundwater – the Forgotten Flooding |
5 March 2025 | Patrick Ebel | European Space Agency | Deep learning for short-to medium-range forecasting of storm surges and (near-) coastal floods |
7 April 2025 | Hannah Bloomfield | Newcastle University | Climate change impacts on the UK energy sector |
7 May 2025 | 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.