Recovery, Renewal, Resilience: The Manchester Webinar Series
What to expect from our events
Over the coming months, our team, in collaboration with partners will be running a series of webinars that will explore recovery and renewal from COVID-19.
The webinars will mark key dates, discuss the themes emerging and developing through our project and report on key findings, good practice and global learning.
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INJUUV webinar details: 31st January 2022
31st January 2022
This webinar was run by the National Consortium for Societal Resilience [UK+]. It was delivered by Dr Jenny Moreno who works closely with local and national government in Chile and Argentina on spontaneous volunteers.
Watch 31st January 2022 webinar.
New Zealand’s Community Hubs for Response and Resilience
15th December 2021
This webinar will cover Wellington Region Emergency Management Office Community Emergency Hub model. This model could be an intermediate between an NGO-led CERT-type teams and the official emergency response.
Watch 15th December 2021 webinar.
NCSR+ webinar - Search and Rescue Volunteer Association of Canada (SARVAC)
24th November 2021
This webinar was run by the National Consortium for Societal Resilience [UK+]. It was delivered by Cindy Sheppard and Paul Olshefsky from Search and Rescue Volunteer Association of Canada (SARVAC).
Watch 24th November webinar
NCSR webinar - FEMA's CERT programme
3rd November 2021
This webinar was run by the National Consortium for Societal Resilience [UK+]. It was delivered by Suu-Va Tai who is the President of FEMA's Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) programme.
Watch 3rd November webinar
Anticipating a resilient future
15th October 2021
Our panel of experts from a global community of emergency managers reflect on their learning from the global pandemic along with severe weather events, consider the main challenges ahead and discuss what this all means for the emergency management profession.
Watch 15th October webinar
Launch of National Consortium for Societal Resilience [UK+]
13th Oct 2021
A panel debate to discuss the reasons behind the launch of the National Consortium for Societal Resilience [UK+], and hear from members on why it is such an important initiative and what they hope to achieve.
Watch 13th October webinar
Managing Meaningful Recovery from Covid
23rd Sept 2021
In this webinar our panel will examine what is ‘meaningful recovery’ from Covid?.
Watch 23rd September webinar
Continuity & Resilience Series: Human Aspects of Resilience
3rd Sept 2021
In the third in the Continuity & Resilience Series our panel will examine the human aspects of resilience.
Watch 3rd September webinar
Continuity & Resilience Series: Building the resilience of essential services post-Covid
7th July 2021
In the second in the Continuity & Resilience Series our panel will examine the contribution of standards to resilience planning, business continuity, and city resilience for recovering from Covid-19
Watch 7th July webinar
A Collective Memory: A webinar examining post pandemic commemoration
25th June 2021
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.
Watch 25th June webinar
Continuity & Resilience Series: Looking beyond Covid-19
7th June 2021
In this, the first in a three-part series of webinars co-produced with the British Standards Institute (BSI), we examine the inter-dependencies between business continuity and resilience planning, and look at how we will move beyond the responses to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Watch 7th June webinar
COVID-19: Resilience Planning & Emergency Management
7th May 2021
In the latest of our series of webinars our speakers will explore more of the key lessons and themes that have emerged from the Covid-19 crisis, concentrating on the perspectives of strengthening resilience planning and the implications for the emergency management profession going forward.
Watch 7th May webinar
Recovering from COVID-19
29th April 2021
This event is aimed at students and others who are interested in hearing how academic research can have a real world impact through the application of tools, theories and social science.
Watch 29th April webinar
Communities - the new local resilience capability
7th April 2021
This webinar asks whether community resilience can be a local and national resilience capability, and explores different models of community action from the US, Chile and the UK to illustrate how this might be achieved.

Recovery and renewal from COVID-19: A year of The Manchester Briefing
26th March 2021
One year since the launch of The Manchester Briefing, this event explores and collates the key lessons and themes that have emerged from around the globe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Watch 26th March webinar
One year of COVID-19: Delivering a Green and Just Recovery
25th March 2021
This webinar reflects on the lessons learned since the pandemic struck, jointly organised by Resilience Cities Network, the World Bank, and The University of Manchester.
View 25th March webinar