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Flood Resilience, Community Voices, and a Panoramic Perspective

Friday 4 Jul 2025

The Open University’s Research Image of the Month for June 2025 highlighted the research of PhD student Claude Nsobya, based in the School of Engineering and Innovation.

The image and accompanying story can be found here: https://research.open.ac.uk/news/research-image-month-flood-resilience-community-voices-and-panoramic-perspective

Claude’s research explores how communities are leading the way in managing flood risk through local knowledge and natural solutions. The research considers the importance of the two-way flow of knowledge and experience, from community to academia and back again, so that they can work together to find sustainable and scalable responses to the climate crisis.

You can read more about Claude’s research in his recent co-authored paper ‘Roles and benefits of community involvement in implementing Natural Flood Management in Maziba catchment, Uganda’.