The Centre for Integrated Research on Risk and Resilience (CIRRR) brings together researchers and practitioners from across disciplines to explore transformational responses to risk reduction and how to build resilient and adaptive societies.

The CIRRR community builds on interdisciplinary approaches to understand, identify and respond to the interaction of social, political, economic, cultural, and physical underpinnings of environmental risks.

We aim to improve entry points for policymakers and practitioners to engage in solutions from transformational adaptation pathways, local decision-making and comprehensive and cascading risk assessments.

Our researchers specialise in climate threats from heat risk to flooding, to social and economic risks of insurance and poverty risks, to climate and energy-security concerns and disaster risk reduction.

We also work on thinking across existential risks and the interactions between them. CIRRR builds on a community of individual research groups at King’s which support the broader CIRRR architecture.

Objectives

Overall, CIRRR has five interconnected objectives: 

1. To drive vulnerability reduction by advancing local and Indigenous understandings of risk and resilience;
2. To improve understanding of novel, cascading and transboundary risks;
3. To understand the interaction of existential risks including climate-related risks, and implications for societal security;
4. To better connect policymakers and practitioners to risk and resilience research, to build supportive knowledge infrastructure for policymaking;
5. To support and develop a community of early-career scholars who can drive innovation and develop novel approaches to risk and resilience across disciplines.

Work streams

CIRRR's objectives are achieved by: 

1. Supporting, advancing and promoting our Centre’s research;
2. Building effective engagement with the policy and practice communities on climate-related risk and resilience;
3. Undertaking transdisciplinary research practices to advance understandings of risk.

 CIRRR collaborates with other research centres at King’s, external partners, and NGOs to deliver its goals. We pursue research, academic teaching, professional training and education, public seminars and workshops, consultancy, and advocacy.

Get in touch

CIRRR is based in the Department of Geography at King’s and co-directed by the Department of War Studies. We are interested in partnering with and supporting institutions working towards our objectives.