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Risk, Disaster and Resilience MSc graduate wins innovation award

Racha Doumit
Recent MSc studentRacha Doumit has won the լƵ MAPS 2023 Postgraduate (MSc) Innovation & Enterprise Competition with her project "Reimagining the Beirut blast, a counterfactual analysis assessing disaster risk management (DRM) policies".

“To me, August 4 was an eerie near miss, one that often left me pondering “What if?”. For the past three years, my reasoning dragged me into downward spirals, imagining the worst possible scenarios. This study was the first time I thought of the blast in an upward manner. My question turned into: “What if we could do things differently?”

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PhD theses

2020–2024

McMillan, Lauren;(2024)Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).

Harris, Myles;(2024)Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).

Vanderpuye, Melodie Rose-Teres;(2023)Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).

Almehmadi, Mater Matar;(2023)Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).

Al Zaabi, Saqar Obaid Mohammed;(2023)Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).

Sgambato, Claudia;(2022)Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).

Velázquez Ortíz, Omar Alejandro;(2021)Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).

Tabassum, Tasnuva;(2020)Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).

2015–2019

O'Connor, Aeron;(2019)Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).

Pescaroli, Gianluca;(2018)Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).

Stavrianaki, K;(2018)Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).

Mildon, ZK;(2017)Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).

Ahmed, Bayes;(2017)Doctoral thesis , UCL (University College London).

Wedmore, LNJ;(2017)Doctoral thesis , UCL (University College London).

Tilling, RL;(2016)Doctoral thesis , UCL (University College London).

Cartwright-Taylor, ALG;(2015)Doctoral thesis , UCL (University College London).