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Thomas Ashton Institute for Risk and Regulatory Research

Security and resilience

Addressing critical questions related to security and resilience in various domains.

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The Security and Resilience Platform focuses on addressing critical questions related to security and resilience in various domains:

  1. Energy security and climate change: Exploring strategies to ensure stable and sustainable energy supplies while mitigating climate change impacts.
  2. Cyber security: Developing measures to protect against cyber threats and enhance the security of digital infrastructures.
  3. Resilience of online spaces: Strengthening the resilience of online environments to safeguard critical national assets.
  4. Workplace resilience: Ensuring the resilience and well-being of individuals in their work environments.
  5. System-level resilience: Building robust systems capable of withstanding and recovering from disruptions.

Leads

  • Richard Kirkham, The University of Manchester
  • David Johnson, HSE
  • Matt Clay, HSE

Tackling UK's national security and resilience

Learn how academic's are partnering to conduct research and innovation in support of the UK's national security and resilience.

Building safety network

Read how our Building Safety Network is amplifying interdisciplinary research approaches to building safety, and promoting knowledge exchange across boundaries to address under-explored dimensions of risk, trust, quality, procurement, management, and transparency.

Platform Membership

  • Matt Clay
  • David Johnson
  • Richard Kirkham
  • David Ling
  • Phoebe Young

Proposals

  • UoM and Project X contributed to House of Commons Science and Technology Committee - A new UK research funding agency
  • Keeping the UK Building Safely (KUBS) mobilising the resources/capabilities of UoM and HSE science division to help enable UK to build safely at speed – a scoping study
  • Building safety network – EPSRC Network Grant. 
  • Developing a new ‘Ashton module’ on the BEng/MEng Civil Engineering and MSc Construction and Engineering Project Management using the NEBOSH standard.