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How do the systems designed to protect people end up trapping them?
Join @PrfAyebKarlsson's inaugural lecture on lawfare, intersectional justice and climate-induced immobility.
13 October | UCL | Free registration: ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physi…
#ClimateJustice #UCL200 #HumanRights
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More memories from our recent graduates - the people really do create the experience! Excited for our freshers to start theirs… 🙌 piped.video/shorts/3uuyPXu14…
#freshers #FreshersWeek #memory #LoveUCL #UCLGrad @UCLRDR @stsucl
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How has @ECHR_CEDH shaped legal protections against domestic violence?
Join Judge Saadet Yüksel for a public lecture on the evolving case law and its implications for human rights. Moderated by @yuliaioffe
29 October 2026. Free registration: ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physi…
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🚀 DPH2027 CALLS ARE OPEN!📍 London | 15-17 June 2027
Deadlines:
⚡ Fast Track (pre-acceptance for ECRs & LMICs): 30 Sep
🧑🏫 Workshops/Tutorials/Panels: 7 Oct
📄 Main Track: 11 Nov
🎓 Students/Posters/Demos: 9 Dec
🔗 dphconf.org/calls-for-papers…
#DigitalPublicHealth #Innovation #Open
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Catching up with fresh Master’s graduates from UCL #EarthSciences
and @UCLRDR 🎓 piped.video/shorts/bZATHuBnI…
#UCLgrad #graduation #LoveUCL #masters #geophysics #disasters #risk
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✨ Reliving #DPH2026! ✨
We brought together the global digital health community in Barcelona for inspiring conversations on #AI, #HealthData, #OneHealth, #DigitalHealth, and the future of public health.
🎥 Watch the highlights and relive the moments!
@PattyKostkova @UCLRDR
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🔥 Hot off the press: new blog @ConversationUK 'Three ways climate action can be more inclusive for 1.3 billion disabled people' who have no formal @UNFCCC representation 🔗theconversation.com/three-wa…💬@ucl @IDA_CRPD_Forum @WID_org @UNDRR @UNEP @globalnetworkdr @UCLRDR @stsucl
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Today's final panel, chaired by Estella Carpi, explores how displacement reshapes urban communities.
Dr Carpi joins the panel with @AstolfoGiovanna and Olga Demetriou.
Co-moderated by Sabrina Devj and Sumaya Hashi
#RDR16
ALT Estella Carpi stands with a microphone, addressing the audience at the 16th UCL Risk and Disaster annual conference. Either side of her are students Sabrina Devji and Sumaya Hashi, and behind a table with a purple, UCL-branded tablecloth, are academics Olga Demetriou and Giovanna Astolfo
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Wrapping up #RDR16 after a day of sharp debate, new connections and big ideas for the cities of tomorrow. Thanks to all speakers, panellists, moderators, participants and organisers. Onwards to building more resilient, equitable and imaginative urban futures!
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Join us 25 June for the launch of the 'Handbook of Climate Mobility', eds. @bayes_ahmed @BishawjitMalli2, exploring how climate change is reshaping mobility, governance and policy.
📍@UNmigration 🕒 2pm to 5pm
Register: ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physi…
#ClimateMobility #UCL
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Join us on 25 June for the relaunch of the @UCLHI: 'The future of humanitarianism in changing contexts of crisis'.
Panel discussion, networking and reception.
UCL Jeremy Bentham Room, 5:30pm to 9pm
Register free: ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physi…
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Disasters aren’t natural.
Join our five‑day #DRR Summer School (10–14 August 2026) to explore vulnerability, climate change, displacement and the #NoNaturalDisasters approach.
Register now ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physi…
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I am delighted to contribute cover photos to the "Journal of Climate Change and Health". The first sciencedirect.com/journal/th…
Thanks to Amelia Cussans and @DrRitaIssa.
#katuali #SeaSnake #Niue #ClimateChange #HealthTwitter #HealthClimate #ClimateHealth #ClimateTwitter #GlobalHealth
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The prelimary programme is live for the 16th UCL RDR annual conference (24 June, UCL East).
• Keynote: @LoriHG_UN
• Panels: Responsible Intelligence, infrastructure risk, displacement and cities
• Urban climate hackathon (limited places)
Register now direc.to/ozXi
ALT Portrait of Loretta Hieber Girardet with short blonde hair, smiling subtly on a purple background. Text reads "Keynote: Loretta Hieber Girardet, UNDRR." UCL 200 logo at bottom.
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