Group photo of the UNRISK students (both cohorts) at induction, October 2026
The second cohort of UNRISK students have arrived to start their PhD programme.
There are 14 students:
-9 at Leeds
-3 at UCL
-2 at Exeter
Projects are listed below. Click here for full profiles
-Quantifying climate projection uncertainty arising from the signal-to-noise paradox
-Harnessing chaos to estimate climate hazards
-Freezing Points: Ice Nucleation Experiments, Climate Intervention, and the Politics of the Sky
-Climate Change and Uncertainty in Catastrophe Modelling: Aligning UK Flood Risk Perceptions with Reality
-Climate change adaptation targets and indicators under uncertainty
-African heatwaves in a warmer world: risks, impacts and adaptation
-Expert judgement and communication of uncertainty in the production of climate information
-Reducing uncertainty in glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) risk and decision making
-Uncertainty and Predictability of Rainfall for Agricultural Planning in Kenya
-Advanced Machine Learning Techniques for Quantifying Uncertainty in Climate Impact -Assessment on Biological Systems
-Quantifying uncertainty and outlining plausible futures for compound heat-health risks
-Forecasting the ecosystem and biogeochemical responses to sea ice change in the Southern Ocean
-Uncertainty in climate change and its impact on earthquake risk
Space-time extreme value models for heatwaves under different climatic conditions
