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.
Watch our past webinars
Intergenerational learning to strengthen community resilience to disruption
19 January 2026
This webinar explored intergenerational learning and how by bringing together young and old, communities can expand how they understand disruption, preparedness, and survival.
Assessing the public value of societal resilience to disruption
12 March 2026
This webinar explored how every £1 invested in societal resilience to disruption generates £35.12 of public value.
A lifetime of resilience: Flood engagement through every life stage
25 March 2026
This webinar explored how life-stage engagement can create sustained, cross-generational approaches to flood preparedness.
What works, what doesn't, and why: resilience insights from essential sectors
28 January 2025
This webinar focused on how to better understand and strengthen the resilience of an essential sector.
How to retain volunteers
6 May 2025
This webinar focused on effective strategies for how to attract and retain volunteers.
How to address flood risk
2 June 2025
This webinar focused on flood prevention and response and how communities can self-help to address flood risk.
Respecting animals and respecting cultures in times of disruption
25 June 2025
This webinar focused on learning from New Zealand on how to respect cultures and animals in disaster planning, response, and recovery.
How to support the wellbeing of volunteers
1 July 2025
This webinar focused on different aspects of mental health and psychosocial supports for volunteers in an emergency.
Enhancing Community Resilience: the role of the private sector
22 September 2025
This webinar explored how private sector organisations can contribute to disaster risk reduction and enhance the resilience of communities.
Localising Resilience: rethinking community-led disaster management
13 November 2025
This webinar explored the practical link between localisation, co-creation, and resilience building and why it is not only a moral imperative, but a strategic one.
Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction
11 December 2025
This webinar explored disability inclusion across the disaster management cycle and how it strengthens community resilience, improves outcomes, and builds systems that are more equitable and effective.
What is societal resilience and where do we begin
30 January 2024
This webinar focused on the principles and key features of a new approach to societal resilience based on operationalising societal resilience as a local resilience capability.
The role of the voluntary sector (VCSE) in societal resilience
5 February 2024
This webinar focused on the role of voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations in enhancing the resilience of society to disruption.
Implementing societal resilience in New Zealand
14 May 2024
This webinar explored good practice, developed alongside local communities, of implementing societal resilience including the Community Emergency Hub model in New Zealand.
Introducing AI and societal resilience
14 June 2024
This webinar provided a beginner's guide to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and considered how AI can help us to enhance the resilience of society to disruption.
Leading societal resilience
9 July 2024
This webinar focused on the mindsets and skillsets needed to lead societal resilience.
Measuring resilience and vulnerability
21 October 2024
This webinar focused on new approaches to measuring community resilience and vulnerability.
What works, what doesn't, and why: resilience insights from community groups
20 November 2024
This webinar focused on how community groups solve local problems for resilience across the UK.
NCSR+ webinar: Fermanagh
12 January 2023
This webinar was run by the National Consortium for Societal Resilience [UK+] . It was delivered by Jason Donaghy (Fermanagh Community Transport) who discussed societal resilience building activities being undertaken in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
NCSR+ webinar: North Yorkshire
16 February 2023
NCSR+ presents the societal resilience work being carried out in North Yorkshire, sharing insights and lessons that others may find useful, particularly in relation to the ‘Ready for Anything’ volunteer community resilience project established by North Yorkshire County Council.
NCSR+ webinar: Sellafield Community Support Cell
14 March 2023
This webinar was delivered by Mark Roberts (Sellafield Ltd) who discussed the societal resilience work carried out by the Sellafield Community Support Cell established as part of crisis management arrangements during Covid-19.
Strengthening local resilience
25 May 2023
Professor Duncan Shaw (Alliance Manchester Business School) and David Powell (Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute) share insights from the journey through the Covid-19 pandemic years and ask what did we learn about the future of resilience?
Whole of society resilience: a strategy for local government
12 September 2023
This webinar launched and introduced the National Consortium for Societal Resilience's [UK+] Strategy and Manual to create a Local Resilience Capability.
NCSR+ webinar: community emergency hubs
6 December 2023
This webinar focused on several UK community emergency hub initiatives and shared experiences and emerging thinking on what works, and the challenges faced in developing a new approach.
INJUUV webinar
31 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.
NCSR+ webinar: Northern Ireland and Test Valley - supporting community resilience to disruption
6 October 2022
This webinar was run by the National Consortium for Societal Resilience [UK+]. It was delivered by Joan McCaffrey (Emergency Preparedness Northern Ireland) and Andy Ferrier (CEO, Test Valley Borough Council) both talking about resilience building activities with their local communities.
NCSR+ webinar - Cumbria
3 November 2022
This webinar was run by the National Consortium for Societal Resilience [UK+]. It was delivered by Carolyn Otley (Cumbria CVS) and Mike Park (Mountain Rescue England and Wales) who discussed resilience building activities undertaken with their local communities in Cumbria.
NCSR+ webinar - West Sussex
6 December 2022
NCSR+ presents the societal resilience work being carried out in West Sussex, sharing insights and lessons that others may find useful, particularly in relation to the 'What If?' community resilience programme established by West Sussex County Council.
One year of COVID-19: Delivering a Green and Just Recovery
25 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.
Recovery and renewal from COVID-19: A year of The Manchester Briefing
26 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.
Communities: The new local resilience capability
7 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.
Recovering from COVID-19
29 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.
COVID-19: Resilience planning and emergency management
7 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.
Continuity & Resilience Series: Looking beyond COVID-19
7 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.
A Collective Memory: A webinar examining post-pandemic commemoration
25 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.
Continuity & Resilience Series: Building the resilience of essential services post-COVID
7 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.
Continuity & Resilience Series: Human aspects of resilience
3 September 2021
In the third in the Continuity & Resilience Series our panel will examine the human aspects of resilience.
Managing meaningful recovery from Covid
23 September 2021
In this webinar our panel will examine what is ‘meaningful recovery’ from Covid.
Launch of National Consortium for Societal Resilience [UK+]
13 October 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.
Anticipating a resilient future
15 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.
NCSR+ webinar - FEMA's CERT programme
3 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.
NCSR+ webinar - Search and Rescue Volunteer Association of Canada (SARVAC)
24 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).
New Zealand's Community Hubs for Response and Resilience
15 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.