Research and innovation
Research helps us to better understand local flood risk. It helps us to learn about new ways to approach flood risk management and make decisions. HCC leads, supports, and shares research with many organisations. The aim is to work towards a more resilient and sustainable future.
People’s Panel survey
The People’s Panel is made up of more than 3000 local residents from Hull and East Riding. The results of People’s Panel surveys are regularly used to -
- plan and shape services
- create policy
- apply for external funding
- monitor satisfaction
- influence local decision making
The infographic shows the results of the survey in April 2021. It was when residents were asked to share their views on flood risk and resilience. The results of this survey were used when writing Hull’s Local Flood Risk Management Strategy. The survey will be repeated during the next strategy update. This will be to help us monitor and understand the needs of our residents.
Some more examples include -
- Living with Water baseline survey
- to understand local understanding and levels of flood resilience
- recommendations from the survey include more community engagement and sharing of information and resources. We want to support the most vulnerable people before, during and after a flood event
- The University of Hull
- supporting research through a Masters degree in Flood Risk Management and Living with Water PhD cluster at the Energy and Environment Institute. Themes of research include natural flood management, flood prediction and local flood histories
- develop and support research projects including -
- Risky Cities
- Water Cultures
- Mapping Flood Recovery Gaps
- SuDSLab-UK
- On the Edge
- INSECURE
- Ark – National Flood Resilience Centre
- Yorkshire Pathfinder Project
- working with partners and communities across Yorkshire to raise awareness of local flood risk
- promoting flood resilience measures, including property flood resilience
- Yorkshire integrated catchment solutions programme (iCASP)
- approaching flood risk on a catchment scale in Yorkshire
- research projects in Hull include catchment telemetry integration
- smart cities
- Hull is one of the first cities in the UK to have its own Smart City platform. The platform will connect, centralise, and distribute real-time information in a simple and secure way. This will allow information and data collected to be used more efficiently and effectively
- the centralised platform will bring together different datasets. These include real-time environmental information, such as weather forecasts, flood warnings and river levels, from our owned assets. This is as well as from open access data from other agencies. The platform combines all the information into a single viewing platform. It will improve decision making and help drive future flood risk management policy
City Water Resilience Framework
Hull was one of 5 global cities chosen to explore the water related shocks and stresses that cities face. The framework identifies ways to promote resilience and barriers preventing resilience. Water resilience describes the capacity of cities to function in the face of water-related stresses so that those living and working within the city can survive and thrive.
The CWRF diagram identifies 4 distinct but connected dimensions of resilience. It shows a series of increasingly specific requirements on goals and sub-goals. These are for building resilience in each dimension. 4 dimensions, 12 goals, 53 sub-goals.
These dimensions of resilience are -
- leadership and strategy
- strategic vision
- coordinated basin governance
- effective regulation and accountability
- planning and finance
- adapted and integrated planning
- sustainable funding and finance
- effective disaster response
- health and wellbeing
- healthy urban spaces
- prosperous communities
- empowered communities
- infrastructure and ecosystems
- effective asset management
- protected natural environments
- equitable provision of essential services