University of Manchester

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Academic & Scientific

Mission

The University of Manchester is part of the prestigious Russell Group of universities and highly respected across the globe as a centre of teaching excellence and research innovation and discovery. The University is a centre of teaching excellence, world-class research, outstanding student experience, and social responsibility.

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Publication
The Manchester Briefing on COVID-19: International lessons for local and national government recovery and renewal, Issue 40
This week’s Manchester Briefing (Issue 40) launches the University of Manchester searchable databas
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The Manchester Briefing on COVID-19: Planning for recovery from COVID-19, Issue 39
This week’s Manchester Briefing (Issue 39) details our new international standard ‘ISO/TS 22393 Guidelines for planning Recovery and Renewal’. ISO/TS 22393 provides a framework for how to assess the impacts of COVID-19 on communities, and address these through transactional recovery activities and transformational renewal initiatives. Lessons are shared from: 
Meetings and conferences
Online
07 July 2021
Webinar: Continuity & Resilience Series: Building the resilience of essential services post-Covid
Second webinar in the 'Continuity and Resilience Series', University of Manchester and the British Standards Institute
Publication
The Manchester Briefing on COVID-19: International lessons on local and national government recovery and renewal, Issue 38
The focus of this week’s Manchester Briefing (Issue 38) is the role of the individual in relation to crises and the benefits of public involvement in emergency planning.
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The Manchester Briefing on COVID-19: International lessons for local and national government recovery and renewal, Issue 37
Risk communications as part of the Local Resilience Capability is the focus of this week’s Manchester Briefing (Issue 37). The briefing explores the communication of risk before and during emergencies, and identify how two-way communications are central to local resilience capabilities.
Training event
Online
25 June 2021
A Collective Memory: A webinar examining post pandemic commemoration
In this webinar we will consider how we will collectively remember the Covid-19 pandemic, reviewing lessons from history about building resilience through coproduced commemoration.
Publication
The Manchester Briefing on COVID-19: International lessons for local and national government recovery and renewal, Issue 36
This week’s Manchester Briefing summarises a further eight COVID-19 research topics, within three areas: Communities; Systems; Recovery, Renewal, Resilience Frameworks. These projects will contribute to an overarching project.
Publication
The Manchester Briefing on COVID-19: Building local resilience capability, Issue 35
This week’s Manchester Briefing details some COVID-19 topics that are being worked on across three research areas: Communities; Systems; Recovery, Renewal, Resilience Frameworks. The briefing summarises six research topics and details how these aim to enhance understanding of Recovery, Renewal, Resilience in the context of COVID-19.

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Voluntary Commitments

The organization has no registered commitments.

The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.

Contact information

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/
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