Comparing community emergency planning strategies and preparedness

Run by volunteers and launched in 2021, the Islington Climate Centre is a vibrant community hub and a solution-oriented education centre, building community resilience and adaptation for a sustainable future in Islington and beyond. We are an important connector in the sustainability space, linking together communities, organisations, and authorities to engage and connect people through thought leadership and community events.

We are seeking a master’s student to produce a research project on civil society emergency responses. We are seeking to understand the innovators in this field and learn from best practice, so we can create an effective community emergency planning strategy here in Islington. We are particularly interested in the effective organisation and mobilisation of community volunteers during emergencies.

We are flexible in terms of the directions and methodologies this project may take. The student would be encouraged to study local examples, such as the London Communities Emergencies Partnership (LCEP), and to look further afield within and beyond the UK. We’d also be interested in understanding how to better prepare London for flooding from an architectural perspective, if this is more interesting to students.