About Us

Capitalizing on the already existing research in Queen Mary, the Crisis and Resilience MDT is collaborative network that pools together knowledge and resources to create cutting edge research on all aspects housed under the overall umbrella of crisis. The network is dedicated to exploring the following over-arching themes and answering the following questions: 

Cross Cutting Themes

Click here to learn more about our cross cutting themes and subthemes.

The Crisis and Resilience MDT, will facilitate the following activities: 

• Establishing the Network as a hub for supporting research activity in the identified subthemes and encouraging cross-cutting practices within the Network 
• Leading the Network as a hub for education in crisis prevention, management, and recovery along with interpersonal violence and violence reduction
• Develop a self-sustaining network of academics and industry understanding of mass casualty events, mental health crisis, social health, and trauma (among others), and contemporary responses and that will explore emergency response resilience. 
• To scope and road map emerging technologies, research, and advancements which could provide resilience in the response to major crisis in the future, effectively providing a strategy for predicting and mitigating crisis. 

Meet the Team

The Crisis and Resilience theme is led by academic lead Dr Karim Brohi and  supported by deputy academic lead Dr Soha Sobhy.

The Crisis and Resilience theme is further supported by a Research Project Manager and a diverse steering group made up of academics from across Queen Mary faculty reflective of the identified themes. 

For more information about our steering group members, please contact Rossye Alvarez (cpmr-mdt@qmul.ac.uk)