Dr Laurence Hawker
BSc (Hons), PhD
Current positions
Senior Research Associate
School of Geographical Sciences
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Floods and livelihoods in the Central Highlands--Connecting
Principal Investigator
Role
Collaborator
Description
This proposal will inform the production of a comprehensive index of socio-economic vulnerability to flood risk, aggregated from household-specific exposure, in a typical DAC country on the path to structural…Managing organisational unit
School of EconomicsDates
02/03/2020 to 31/07/2020
How can flood data be more useful?
Principal Investigator
Description
We aim to find out how scientists can make their flood data more useful to the decision-making community through a co-produced online survey. This is motivated from a recent disaster-relief…Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/01/2020 to 01/10/2020
SHEAR II
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Flood hazard and risk maps form the evidence base for decision-marking regarding issues such as land use planning, insurance and capital provision, emergency response and disaster preparedness. None of these…Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
16/10/2018 to 30/05/2022
High resolution flood modelling of deltas
Role
Researcher
Description
This project will help strengthen the understanding of flood
modelling in the complex environment of deltas with a number of academics
at Kyoto University. The visit will be hosted by Professor Yasuto…Managing organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
20/05/2016 to 01/07/2016
Publications
Recent publications
01/03/2025FathomDEM
Environmental Research Letters
Data, guidelines and ethics for managing flood risk when people are already forcibly displaced
Environmental Research Letters
Assessing LISFLOOD-FP with the next-generation digital elevation model FABDEM using household survey and remote sensing data in the Central Highlands of Vietnam
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Integrating social vulnerability into high-resolution global flood risk mapping
Nature Communications
Ranking of 10 Global One-Arc-Second DEMs Reveals Limitations in Terrain Morphology Representation
Remote Sensing
Thesis
Regional Flood Models and Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Uncertainty
Supervisors
Award date
25/06/2019
Related people
Professor Paul Bates
Professor of Hydrology
School of Geographical Sciences
Dr Jonty Rougier
Honorary Professor
School of Mathematics
Professor Jeffrey Neal
Professor of Hydrology
School of Geographical Sciences
Dr Sean Fox
Associate Professor in Global Development
School of Geographical Sciences
Dr Leanne Archer
Research Associate
School of Geographical Sciences