Find out more about the key issues, organisations and themes in our list of useful resources. Let us know if you discover any new ones you think we'd like!
- Articles and Books
o Ahmed, B., Rahman, M. S., Sammonds, P., Islam, R., & Uddin, K. (2020).
o Alam, A., Sammonds, P., Ahmed, B. (2020). Science of The Total Environment, 704, 135360.
o Alexander, D. (2020) Building emergency planning scenarios for pandemics. London: UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction.
o Alexander, D. (2019) Disaster and emergency planning for preparedness, response, and recovery, In: Gerber, B., Esnard, A., Glavovic, B., Wamsler, C., Aginam, O., Birkland, T. and Sim, T. (eds.) Oxford Encyclopaedia of Natural Hazards Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-20.
o Alexander, D. (2016) How to Write an Emergency Plan. Edinburgh: Dunedin.
o Cremen, G., Galasso, C. (2020) Earthquake early warning: Recent advances and perspectives. Earth-Science Reviews, 205 103184.
o Duda, P., Kelman, I., Glick, N. (2020) Informal disaster governance. Politics and Governance, 8 (4), 375-385.
o Field, J., Johar, A. (2020) Perspectives on “Giving Back”: A Conversation Between Researcher and Refugee. In The Companion to Peace and Conflict Fieldwork. Palgrave Macmillan.
o Field, J., Burra, S. (Eds.), (2020) The Global Compact on Refugees: Indian Perspectives and Experiences. UNHCR India and Academicians Working Group.
o Gentile, R., Galasso, C. (2020) Simplified seismic loss assessment for optimal structural retrofit of RC buildings. Earthquake Spectra, 875529302095244.
o Kelman, I. (2020) Disaster by Choice: How our actions turn natural hazards into catastrophise. Oxford University press, Oxford.
o Kelman, I. (2020). Disaster vulnerability by demographics? Journal of Population and Sustainability.
o Kelman, I. (2020). Introduction to "Five Years of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction". International Journal of Disaster Risk Science.
o Kelman, I., Gaillard, J., Lewis, J. and Mercer, J. (2016) “”. Natural Hazards, 82 (1), pp. 129-143.
o Mueller, S., Soriano, D., Boscor, A., Saville, N., Arjyal, A., Baral, S., ...Kayastha, R. (2020) MANTRA: development and localization of a mobile educational health game targeting low literacy players in low and middle income countries. BMC public health, 20 (1), 1171.
o Panda, D.K., Ambast, S.K., Shamsudduha, M. (2020) Groundwater depletion in northern India: Impacts of the sub-regional anthropogenic land-use, socio-politics and changing climate. Hydrological Processes.
o Rodríguez, H., Donner, W. and Trainer, J. (2018) Handbook of disaster research. 2nd ed. Cham: Springer.
o Velazquez, O., Pescaroli, G., Cremen, G., Galasso, C. (2020) A Review of the Technical and Socio-Organizational Components of Earthquake Early Warning Systems. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8.
o Watts, N., Amann, M., Arnell, N., Ayeb-Karlsson, S., Beagley, J., Belesova, K., ...Campbell-Lendrum, D. (2020) The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises. Lancet.
o Yadav, P. (2020). Can women benefit from war? Women’s agency in conflict and post-conflict contexts. Journal of Peace Research
o Yadav, P. and Horn, D.M. (2021). “Continuum of violence: feminist peace research and gender-based violence”, in Tarja Väyrynen, Swati Parashar, Élise Féron, and Catia Cecilia Confortini (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Feminist Peace Research. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge
o Yadav, P., Saville, N., Arjyal, A., Baral, S., Kostkova, P. and Fordham, M. (2021). A feminist vision for transformative change to disaster risk reduction policies and practices, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Vol 54,
o Zaman, S., Sammonds, P., Ahmed, B., & Rahman, T. (2020). International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 50, 101694.
o Geographic Information System (GIS) Esri Books (open access):
o Uddin, N. (2020). Oxford University Press.- UCL Specific
oUCL Humanitarian Institute
oIRDR Centre for Gender and Disaster
-The GRRIPP project
oUCL Warning Research Centre
oUCL Institute for Global Health
oIRDR Space Health Risks Research Group
oUCL EPICentre
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o- Important Websites
o The United Nations (UN)
o The New Humanitarian:
o ReliefWeb:
o Overseas Development Institute (ODI):
o UN News:
o The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR):
o The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA)
o PreventionWeb
o Humanitarian Practice Network
o ALNAP
o Devex
o Save the Children Disaster Risk Reduction resource centre
o Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
o Sphere
o RedR UK
o The UK Alliance for Disaster Research:
o Understanding Risk:
o The International Humanitarian Studies Association:
o The Humanitarian Leadership Academy:
o The Humanitarian Data Exchange:
o UN OCHA Humanitarian Response:
o The Platform on Disaster Displacement:
o The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre:
o The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC):
o The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):
o BRAC NGO:
o South American Network for Environmental Migrations (RESAMA):
o The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
o The International Organization for Migration (IOM):
o The Conversation (Independent News and Views, Sourced from the Academic Community):
o Thomson Reuters Foundation News:
o The International Court of Justice (ICJ):
o The International Criminal Court (ICC):
o The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF):
o Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/ Doctors Without Borders:
o The World Bank Climate Change Knowledge Portal:
o IOM Environmental Migration Portal:
o United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (UNDPPA):
o World Meteorological Organization (WMO):
o United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC):
o UN Women:
o Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR):
o PreventionWeb - Knowledge platform for disaster risk reduction:
o International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD):
o National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA):
o National Geographic:
o NASA: Climate Change and Global Warming:
o- Online courses/training/MOOCs
o Sphere’s first ever Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) (free online course) “Sphere in Practice”
o RedR courses
o LinkedIn learning (general personal + professional development for wider skills and awareness)
o Geographic Information System (GIS) MOOC (Esri)
o Disaster Displacement (e-learning course)
o Kaya – A free humanitarian learning platform
o NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training Program
o Introduction to Imagery and Remote Sensing (Esri)
o UN CC: Learn (The One UN Climate Change Learning Partnership)- Videos/Documentaries
o Interview with Dr Jessica Field on Global Humanitarian Studies at 911 – The Curious Geographer:
o Digital photo exhibition on the Rohingya crisis:
o A Safer Place (the Rohingya crisis):
o- Podcasts/Audio news
o The New Humanitarian
o The Response
o Disasters: Deconstructed
o In Their Own Words – Amnesty International
o Stories and Humanitarian Action
o UN News – audio hub
o Humanitarianism by the University of Oxford
o Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
o Everyday Emergency: The MSF podcast
o Disaster Area – History Podcast
o ODI podcast series :
- Constructive Deconstruction
- When disasters and conflict collide
o ODI Live Events Podcasts:
- A feminist approach to international assistance
- The Paris Climate Commitments:
- Merging International NGOs:- Conferences/Events
o Understanding Risk Forum (2020 online for re-watch)
o The UK Alliance for Disaster Research (UKADR) Conference
o International Humanitarian Studies Conference
o Gobeshona Conference
o American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting
o American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
o The Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week (HNPW)- Jobs/Careers
• United Nations (UN) Jobs
• Human Rights Careers
• Human Rights Watch
• UN Jobs for Humanitarian Assistance
• Peace Direct
• Relief International
• MSF Jobs
• LinkedIn Jobs (search Humanitarian Jobs)
• Plan International
• UNICEF
• International Rescue Committee
• The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
• The British Red Cross
• Islamic Relief
• Catholic Relief Services
• The European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations
• Action Against Hunger
• Care International
• World Relief
• World Vision International
• Save the Children
• UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF)
• The World Food Programme (WFP)
• Human Rights Watch
• Devex
• ALNAP
• USAID
• The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
• Christian Aid
• The Aga Khan Foundation
• The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
• Mercy Corps
• ODI
• Academic Jobs
• IMC Worldwide
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)