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Mapping Flood Recovery Gaps Phase 2: Final Report. Scaling up and creating legacy (2025)
Report
Amen-Thompson, E., Davidson, G., Forrest, S., & Smith, K. (2025). Mapping Flood Recovery Gaps Phase 2: Final Report. Scaling up and creating legacy. Aviva

Executive Summary:
the Aviva Foundation, addresses critical gaps in UK post-flood recovery processes. In Phase 1, a systematic literature review and stakeholder interviews were the foundation of an innovative and interactive tool, the bespoke seriou... Read More about Mapping Flood Recovery Gaps Phase 2: Final Report. Scaling up and creating legacy.

Written evidence submitted by the Energy and Environment Institute, University of Hull to the Environmental Audit Committee inquiry on Flood Resilience. FRE0093 (2025)
Report
Smith, K., McLelland, S., Davidson, G., & McDonagh, B. (2025). Written evidence submitted by the Energy and Environment Institute, University of Hull to the Environmental Audit Committee inquiry on Flood Resilience. FRE0093

Opening paragraph:
The Energy and Environment Institute at the University of Hull has a research focus encompassing many of the challenges highlighted by this inquiry’s terms of reference. We work in inter- and transdisciplinary ways on a range of f... Read More about Written evidence submitted by the Energy and Environment Institute, University of Hull to the Environmental Audit Committee inquiry on Flood Resilience. FRE0093.

Community Waterscapes Storymap (2024)
Digital Artefact
Velentza, K. (2024). Community Waterscapes Storymap

This digital 'Storymap' presents heritage from Hull Community Waterscapes participants. The stories, photographs, landmarks, experiences and memories on the map represent their relationships with water in the city of Hull and beyond.

Place-Based Arts Engagement and Learning Histories: An Effective Tool for Climate Action (2024)
Journal Article
Smith, K., McDonagh, B., & Brookes, E. (in press). Place-Based Arts Engagement and Learning Histories: An Effective Tool for Climate Action. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2024.2382473

Artistic works informed by the global climate emergency are now common. Yet research typically focuses on the role of art in climate communication, rather than evaluating opportunities for large-scale public art to drive climate action and behavioral... Read More about Place-Based Arts Engagement and Learning Histories: An Effective Tool for Climate Action.

People Power and Water Politics (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine
Worthen, H., McDonagh, B., Smith, K., Brookes, E., Hughes, G., & Mottram, S. (2024). People Power and Water Politics. London

Opening paragraph:
In 1622, the town of Kingston-Upon-Hull submitted a petition to King Charles I. In it, urban governors outlined the watery hazards faced by the town, namely that it stood ‘upon the dangerous river of Humber, being a great and very... Read More about People Power and Water Politics.

Learning from arts and humanities approaches to building climate resilience in the UK (2023)
Book Chapter
Brookes, E., McDonagh, B., Wagner, C., Ashton, J., Harvey-Fishenden, A., Kennedy-Asser, A., Macdonald, N., & Smith, K. (2023). Learning from arts and humanities approaches to building climate resilience in the UK. In S. Dessai, K. Lonsdale, J. Lowe, & R. Harcourt (Eds.), Quantifying Climate Risk and Building Resilience in the UK (75-89). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39729-5_6

• This chapter shares insights from five arts and humanities-led UK Climate Resilience Programme (UKCR) projects, presenting key learnings and pathways for future research and policy interventions. • We highlight the significant potential of place-ba... Read More about Learning from arts and humanities approaches to building climate resilience in the UK.

Learning histories, participatory methods and creative engagement for climate resilience (2023)
Journal Article
McDonagh, B., Brookes, E., Smith, K., Worthen, H., Coulthard, T., Hughes, G., Mottram, S., Skinner, A., & Chamberlain, J. (2023). Learning histories, participatory methods and creative engagement for climate resilience. Journal of Historical Geography, 82, 91-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2023.09.002

The potential of place-based, historically-informed approaches to drive climate action has not yet been adequately interrogated. Recent scholarly work has focussed on climate communication and the role of arts and humanities-led storytelling in engag... Read More about Learning histories, participatory methods and creative engagement for climate resilience.

Wet Feet Warm Hearts Strong Places: a community created zine about flood resilience in Hull (2023)
Digital Artefact
Smith, K., Brookes, E., McDonagh, B., Chamberlain, J., Hughes, G., & Dorton, L. (2023). Wet Feet Warm Hearts Strong Places: a community created zine about flood resilience in Hull

Introduction
Welcome to the Risky Cities zine. The art, poetry, imagery and stories in this zine have been created as part of the Risky Cities project at the University of Hull, which has explored the city of Hull's long history of living with water... Read More about Wet Feet Warm Hearts Strong Places: a community created zine about flood resilience in Hull.