MPLS Social Impact Award success for Reuben Fellow, Richard Walker

Congratulations to Reuben Official Fellow, Richard Walker, who has won the 2023 MPLS Social Impact Award.

Richard won the award for his research on ‘Building earthquake resilience in Asia’, where he focuses on improving the understanding of large earthquakes in continental interiors where long recurrence times between seismic events mean that such risks are rarely thought about in local communities. You can read more about his research, and the other winners of  here.

Richard says: 

I am truly honoured by this award, which reflects long-term collaborative efforts with many colleagues in the UK and internationally. There is still much to do to build resilience to earthquake hazards, and requires long-term research programs.

The citadel of Bam, eastern Iran. This two-thousand year old fortress was destroyed by a moderate-sized earthquake of M6.6 on the 26 Dec 2003. It highlights the challenge of identifying and mitigating for the effects of these rare, but devastating hazards