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EPSRC Flooding Focus
Philippa Hemmings
EPSRC Strategic Plan
Our strategy has three clear goals
Delivering impactEmbedding impact throughout our portfolio by creating an environment in which is arise naturally, in whatever form, from the knowledge base
Shaping capabilityEnsuring we have the right people, with the right resource, in the right place to deliver the highest quality long-term research in areas where the UK leads internationally and where there is current or future national need
Developing leadersNurturing the visionary leaders who set research agendas and inspirational team leaders who act as role models
EPSRC’s portfolio
EPSRC portfolioOverview and analysis of entire EPSRC portfolio
Available at: http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/ourportfolio/Pages/default.aspx
EPSRC Water Portfolio
Shaping Strategy for Coastal and Waterway Engineering
Definition: Engineering research pertaining to coastal and waterway structures, management and defences (both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ defences), estuarine engineering, reservoir and dam engineering and hydrodynamics.
Current portfolio: £15.8M, 30 grants
www.epsrc.ac.uk/ourportfolio/researchareas/Pages/waterway.aspx
EPSRC Water PortfolioShaping Strategy for Coastal and Waterway Engineering
Importance:
Given that at least 6 million properties in the UK are at risk of flooding, addressing flooding in terms of prevention and mitigation with due regard for the economic and social costs is a high priority.
Flood risk, both in the UK and globally, is likely to increase in the future in the face of both climate change and socio-economic pressures. The potential societal impacts and economic damages from flood risk are therefore significant.
The area is multi-disciplinary (encompassing fluid dynamics, civil engineering and materials science as well as social, biological and environmental sciences)
Quality:
Current investment in this area is FRMRC, which has generated high quality research
Opportunity to develop research in exciting and innovative directions
Impacts could be potentially transformative, raising the UK’s profile in an international context and contributing to societal challenges.
EPSRC Water Portfolio
Shaping Strategy for Coastal and Waterway Engineering
Action: Maintain: Looking to focus on developing novel and disruptive challenges going beyond those driven by current legislation and generating more creative, visionary and longer term research. Need to draw fresh thinking into the area to broaden the portfolio wider than flooding.
EPSRC Flooding Portfolio
Portfolio Highlights
Flood Risk Management Research Consortium (FRMRC)
£7.3m multi-institution consortium
Managed by Heriot-Watt University
Work Packages in:
Inundation Modelling – Catchment
Inundation Modelling – Coastal
Urban Flood Modelling
Infrastructure Management
Land Use Management
EPSRC Water Portfolio
Portfolio Highlights
Innovative Solutions to Flood Risk Sandpit (April 2012)
Developing creative and novel research projects to answer some of the challenges identified in the LWEC FCERM report
Three Funded Projects
Organisational Operational Response and Strategic Decision Making for Long Term Flood Preparedness in Urban Areas
Delivering and Evaluating Multiple Flood Risk Benefits in Blue Green Cities
Clustering of floods and impacts on resilience of physical and socio-economic systems
EPSRC Water Portfolio
Links to Other Research Areas
Research in “Water” also links to different areas across EPSRC
Energy Challenge Theme
Living with Environmental Change (LWEC)
Physical Sciences
ICT
Also links to:
NERC
ESRC
EPSRC Water Portfolio
Links to Other Research Areas
Key Activities
RCUK Water Interest Group (WIG)
Informal cross-council group
Representatives from EPSRC, NERC, ESRC, BBSRC, STFC, MRC
RCUK Water Showcase Event
March 2012
Organised by LWEC programme
Showcasing the breadth of RCUK research in water
Summing Up - Useful Links
www.epsrc.ac.uk/plans/strategicplan/
www.epsrc.ac.uk/plans/deliveryplan/
www.epsrc.ac.uk/ourportfolio/
www.epsrc.ac.uk/ourportfolio/researchareas/
