Anyone using the F-word 🤬 when reacting to a warning? Explore more via our latest blog 'F Words for Warning Reactions'
🔗 /warning-research-centre/2026/03/09/f-words-for-warning-reactions/
Join @UCLWRC to launch the world’s first publicly available warning database, with a demo followed by a Q&A session.
Date: 04 March 2026, 15:00 – 16:00
Format: Hybrid - online and in person at UCL Campus
Book your free place here: /mathematical-physical-sciences/events/2026/mar/launch-event-ucl-warning-database-launch
As you may notice, our branding has changed! 2026 marks a major milestone for UCL - 200 years since we were founded as the first university in London, and we have a new look to celebrate. See more here: /brand-and-experience/brand/about-our-brand.
Just 2 weeks to go until our next event!
Join us online as we launch Santiago Zabala's latest book 'Signs from the Future: A philosophy of warnings'.
📅 26 November, 3.00PM GMT
💻 Online/Zoom - join from wherever you are in the world!
✏️ Book your free place now: /mathematical-physical-sciences/events/2025/nov/book-launch-signs-future-philosophy-warnings-santiago-zabala
Upcoming Event: Warnings for Mental Health During Climatic Extremes 🧠 ☁️. ⏰ 29th October 15:00–17:00 in person & online. ℹ️ Launch of the world’s first mental health index by Rhiannon Hawkins, with panellists Virginia Murray, Emma Lawrance, & Tilly Alcayna 🔗 /mathematical-physical-sciences/events/2025/oct/launch-event-warnings-mental-health-during-climatic-extremes
Today is International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2025: Fund Resilience, Not Disasters. It is time to work across silos & with expertise in the financial & insurance markets to think more creatively about how this can be done. #ResiliencePays #DRRday /
Take a look at the latest addition to our Warning Briefing Note series titled 'Enhancing Early Warning Systems for Nuclear Plant Water Contamination' by Yungi Jiang from University of Glasgow /mathematical-physical-sciences/sites/mathematical_physical_sciences/files/2025-10/nuclear%20EWS%20Concept%20report%20final.pdf
oin us online for the book launch of 'Signs from the Future. A Philosophy of Warnings' by Prof Santiago Zabala, ICREA Research Professor at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona Spain.
⏰ 26 Nov 2025, 15:00 – 16:3 UK time
💻 Online Event
ℹ️ /mathematical-physical-sciences/events/2025/nov/book-launch-signs-future-philosophy-warnings-santiago-zabala
Titled "Signs from the Future. A Philosophy of Warnings" this book explores the philosophy behind warnings, ignoring warnings, and being warned, focusing on why we do not heed warnings - a critical question when considering the effectiveness of warnings. We will hear an overview of the books key points from Santiago followed by a discussion and Q&A that will no doubt be rich and at the edge of our understanding of warnings.
Join us for an in-person workshop & roundtable 'Building Effective Health Warnings for Users: The First Mile' with Medici con l'Africa Cuamm/ Doctors with Africa CUAMM 🦠💉
We will discuss with a wide range of stakeholders on how to build effective warnings for health issues, with a focus on emergent infectious diseases (EID) via a workshop with simulations, a roundtable event, and networking opportunities.
⏰ Date: 30 Oct 2025, 14:00–18:00
📍 Location: UCL Campus
👤 Meeting Type: In-person only
➡️ Details and registration: /mathematical-physical-sciences/events/2025/oct/building-effective-health-warnings-users-first-mile-workshop-and-roundtable-event
We are delighted to announce the publication of the 'Mental Health Vulnerability Index (MHVI): preparing communities, societies and authorities for the impacts of climate change on mental health' written by UCL WRC internship student @rhiannonhawkins8 , from the @uofglasgow 😃🙂😐🙁😢
You can download the world’s first mental health index ⏬: https://lnkd.in/e5jnaVv8
The report will be launched on 29th October, 15:00 – 17:00, both in person and online. For more details and to register ➡️: https://lnkd.in/ee79ftQZ
Summary 🧠 🗂️
This report highlights how climate change poses a significant challenge to mental health and well-being both on local to global spatial scales and on immediate and long-term temporal scales, for instance, individuals who experience flooding are shown to have more persistent experiences of mental health conditions three years after the event than those who do not experience flooding. Currently, Early Warning Systems (EWS) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) strategies attempt to overcome challenges which are increasing because of the increased frequency and intensity of climatic hazards. Therefore, to ensure that EWS and DDR strategies continue to work in an era of growing climatic variability, this report undertakes an analysis of the current literature and policy of EWS and DRR strategies and proposes a novel solution (MHVI), to help a range of agencies identify communities most vulnerable to developing mental ill health during climatic hazards. This is to facilitate the implementation of solutions with are more anticipatory rather than responsive to help improve community resilience to the mental health implications of climate change.
Value 🔧 📄
The MHVI intends to be a tool which can be used by academics and policy makers to identify areas and communities which are most vulnerable to developing mental ill health during a climatic hazard. The MHVI, thus, enables academics and policymakers the chance to facilitate anticipatory warnings and disaster risk reduction approaches in areas and communities of high vulnerability.
Amazing opportunity with @royalcollegeofart Royal College of Art and UCL Warning Research Centre for a Postdoctoral Researcher for a new AHRC funded project, 'Scoring Warnings'. Details & info: /Vacancy.aspx?ref=088-25-R
Article: Tsunamis and atolls: why warnings must be locally meaningful
See: /drr-community-voices/tsunamis-and-atolls-why-warnings-must-be-locally-meaningful
