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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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NCSR+ webinar - Leading societal resilience

Leading societal resilience

9th July 2024 10:00-11:30 GMT

This webinar focused on the mindsets and skillsets needed to lead societal resilience.

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NCSR+ webinar - Introducing AI and societal resilience

Introducing AI and societal resilience

14th June 2024 11:00-12:30 GMT

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.

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NCSR+ webinar - Implementing societal resilience in New Zealand

Implementing societal resilience in New Zealand

14th May 2024 09:00-10:30 GMT

This webinar explored good practice, developed alongside local communities, of implementing societal resilience including the Community Emergency Hub model in New Zealand.

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NCSR webinar 5th February

The role of the voluntary sector (VCSE) in societal resilience

5th February 2024 13:00-14:30 GMT

This webinar focused on the role of voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations in enhancing the resilience of society to disruption.

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NCSR+ webinar - What is societal resilience and where do we begin

What is societal resilience and where do we begin

30th January 2024 10:00-11:30 GMT

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.

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NCSR+ webinar - Community emergency hubs

NCSR+ webinar - Community emergency hubs

6th December 2023 11:00-12:30 GMT

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.

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Whole of society resilience: a strategy for local government

12th September 2023 12:00-13:00 GMT

This webinar launched and introduced the National Consortium for Societal Resilience's [UK+] Strategy and Manual to create a Local Resilience Capability.

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Strengthening local resilience

25th May 2023 10:00-12:00 GMT

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?

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NCSR+ webinar - Sellafield Community Support Cell

14th March 2023 12:00-13:30 GMT

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.

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NCSR+ webinar - North Yorkshire

16th February 2023 09:30-11:30 GMT

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.

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NCSR+ webinar - Fermanagh

12th January 2023 12:00-13:30 GMT

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.

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NCSR+ upcoming webinar

NCSR+ webinar - West Sussex

6th December 2022 12:00-13:30 GMT

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.

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NCSR+ webinar - Cumbria

NCSR+ webinar - Cumbria

3rd 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.

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NCSR+ webinar - Northern Ireland and Test Valley

NCSR+ webinar - Northern Ireland and Test Valley - Supporting community resilience to disruption

6th 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.

Watch 6th Oct 2022 webinar
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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.

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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.

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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).

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NCSR webinar - FEMA's CERT programme

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. 

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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.

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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.

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Managing Meaningful Recovery from Covid

23rd Sept 2021

In this webinar our panel will examine what is ‘meaningful recovery’ from Covid?.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

NCSR+ webinar - Introducing AI and societal resilience