Draft:Richard Dawson (Engineer)

Richard Dawson FREng
Nationality	British
Education	University of Bristol (MEng, 1999) University of Bristol (Ph.D, 2003)
Known for	Infrastructure systems; Flood and coastal risk management; Water security; Adaptation to climate change; Earth Systems Engineering
Honours	Institution of Civil Engineers Fellow (2021) Royal Academy of Engineering Fellow (2023) Queen's Anniversary Prize (2024)
Scientific career
Institutions	Newcastle University University of Bristol Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Thesis	Performance based management of flood defence systems (2003)
Doctoral advisor	Jim Hall

Richard Dawson FREng is Professor of Earth Systems Engineering at Newcastle University in the UK.

In 2020 he was appointed as Director of Research for the School of Engineering.

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Education

Dawson received an MEng in Civil Engineering with study in Continental Europe from the University of Bristol. His year abroad was spent studying civil engineering in French at the Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France.

His Ph.D. in flood risk management was also from University of Bristol.

Career

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CCC visited Kyoto, Arizona epsrc fellow turing fellow tyndall which adapted systems engineering and performance management approaches to develop broad-scale flood risk models, water hub

Prof ESE - Earth Systems Engineering and Management

oral evidence to parliament bbc eminent scientists Newcastle University Research programme of global excellence in water security

Honours and Awards

• 2022 Co-awarded the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity, shared with other co-authors of IPCC and IPBES
• 2019 Aon foundation Jose Maria Sarriegi Major Catastrophe Research Award for work on: “How are cities planning to respond to climate change? Assessment of local climate plans from 885 cities in the EU-28”
• Five year EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship (2010-2015)
• Winner of the Lloyds of London Science of Risk prize for “Integrated analysis of risks of coastal flooding and cliff erosion under scenarios of long term change” (2012)
• Institution of Civil Engineers Robert Stephenson Award for the “Northeast Climate Change Adaptation Study” (2009)
• Institution of Civil Engineers Robert Alfred Carr Prize for “A methodology for national-scale flood risk assessment” (2004)
• Short Research Fellowship, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (2003)
• International Association of Hydraulic Research Young Scientists Paper Prize for “Risk based approach to beach nourishment” (1999)

Selected publications

A full list of Dawson's peer-reviewed publications can be found on his Google Scholar profile.

• Dawson RJ (2023). How civil engineers can help the UK deliver a resilient, net-zero-emissions energy system. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Civil Engineering, 176(3):102 (doi: 10.1680/jcien.2023.176.3.102).
• Wolf K, Dawson RJ, Mills JP, Blythe P, Robson C, and Morley J (2023). Assessing the impact of heavy rainfall on the Newcastle upon Tyne transport network using a geospatial data infrastructure, Resilient Cities and Structures, 2(2): 24-41 (doi: 10.1016/j.rcns.2023.07.001).
• Polaine XK, Dawson RJ, Walsh CL, Amezaga J, Peña-Varón M, Lee C, Rao S (2022) Systems thinking for water security, Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems, 39:3, 205-223. (doi: 10.1080/10286608.2022.2108806).
• Ming, X, Liang Q, Dawson RJ, Xia X, Hou J, (2022) A quantitative multi-hazard risk assessment framework for compound flooding considering hazard inter-dependencies and interactions, J. Hydrology, 607: 127477 (doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127477).
• Haasnoot M, Winter G, Brown S, Dawson RJ, Ward PJ, Eilander D (2021) Long-term sea-level rise necessitates a commitment to adaptation: a first order assessment, Climate Risk Management, 34: 100355. (doi: 10.1016/j.crm.2021.100355).
• Yesudian A, Dawson RJ (2021) Global analysis of sea level rise risk to airports, Climate Risk Management, 31:100266. (doi: 10.1016/j.crm.2020.100266)
• McClean F, Dawson RJ, Kilsby CG (2020) Implications of using Global Digital Elevation Models for Flood Risk Analysis in Cities, Water Resources Research, (doi: 10.1029/2020WR028241).
• Caparros-Midwood D, Dawson RJ, Barr S (2019) Low Carbon, Low Risk, Low Density: Resolving choices about sustainable development in cities, Cities, 89: 252-267 (doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2019.02.018).
• Reckien D, Salvia M, Heidrich O, Church JM, Pietrapertosa F, De Gregorio-Hurtado S, D'Alonzo V, Foley A, Simoes SG, Krkoska Lorencova E, Orru H, Orru K, Wejs A, Flacke J, Olazabal M, Geneletti D, Feliu E, Vasilie S, Nador C, Krook-Riekkola A, Matosovic M, Fokaides PA, Ioannou BI, Flamos A, Spyridaki N-A, Balzan MV, Fulop O, Paspaldzhiev I, Grafakos S, Dawson RJ (2018) How are cities planning to respond to climate change? Assessment of local climate plans from 885 cities in the EU-28, J. Cleaner Production, 191:207-219. (doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.03.220).
• Bai X, Dawson RJ, Ürge-Vorsatz D, Delgado GC, Barau AS, Dhakal S, Dodman D, Leonardsen L, Masson-Delmotte V, Roberts DC, Schultz S (2018) Six research priorities for cities and climate change, Nature, 555, 23-25. (doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-02409-z).
• Dawson RJ, Thompson D, Johns D, Wood R, Darch G, Chapman L, Hughes P, Watson GVR, Paulson K, Bell S, Gosling SN, Powrie W, Hall JW (2018) A systems framework for national assessment of climate risks to infrastructure, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, 376(2121): 20170298 (doi: 10.1098/rsta.2017.0298).
• Guerreiro S, Dawson RJ, Kilsby C, Lewis E, Ford A (2018) Future heat-waves, droughts and floods in 571 European cities, Environment Research Letters. (doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aaaad3).
• Pregnolato M, Ford A, Glenis V, Wilkinson S, Dawson RJ (2017). Impact of Climate Change on Disruption to Urban Transport Networks from Pluvial Flooding. ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 23(4): 04017015 (doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)IS.1943-555X.0000372)
• Fu G, Wilkinson S, Dawson RJ (2016) A Spatial Network Model for Civil Infrastructure System Development, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 31(9): 661-680. (doi: 10.1111/mice.12204).
• Dawson RJ (2015) Handling Interdependencies in Climate Change Risk Assessment, Climate, 3(4):1079-1096. (doi:10.3390/cli3041079).
• Sandberg, Sartori I, Heidrich O, Dawson RJ, Dascalaki E, Demetrioue S, Vimmr R, Filippidoug F, Stegnarh G, Zavrlh MS and Helge Brattebø (2016) Dynamic Building Stock Modelling: Application to 11 European countries to support the energy efficiency and retrofit ambitions of the EU. Energy and Buildings, 132(15):26-38. (doi: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2016.05.100).
• Walsh, C., Manning, L., Burton, A., Kilsby, C., Hall, J. W., Dawson, R. J. (2015) Managing water resources in changing socio-economic and climatic conditions in the Thames basin, Hydrology and Earth Systems Sciences Discussions, 12, 8853–8889.
• Khoury M, Bullock S, Fu G, and Dawson RJ (2015) Improving measures of topological robustness in networks of networks and suggestion of a novel way to counter both failure propagation and isolation, J. Infrastructure Complexity, 2(1):1-20. (doi: 10.1186/s40551-015-0004-9).
• Blanc, J.; Hall, J.; Roche, N.; Dawson, R.; Cesses, Y., Burton, A. and Kilsby, C. G. (2012) Efficient pluvial flood risk estimation in urban areas using spatial-temporal rainfall simulations, J. Flood Risk Management, 5(2):143–152 (doi: 10.1111/j.1753-318X.2012.01135.x)
• Dawson, R. J., Peppe, R. and Wang, M. (2011) An agent based model for risk-based flood incident management, Natural Hazards, 59(1):167-189 (doi: 10.1007/s11069-011-9745-4).
• Dawson, R. J., Dickson, M. E., Nicholls, R. J., Hall, J. W., Walkden, M. J. A., Stansby, P., Mokrech, M., Richards, J., Zhou, J., Milligan, J., Jordan, A., Pearson, S., Rees, J., Bates, P., Koukoulas, S., Watkinson, A. (2009), Integrated analysis of risks of coastal flooding and cliff erosion under scenarios of long term change, Climatic Change, 95:249–288 (doi: 10.1007/s10584-008-9532-8).
• Dawson, R. J., Speight, L., Hall, J. W., Djordjevic, S., Savic, D. and Leandro, J. (2008), Attribution of flood risk in urban areas, J. Hydroinformatics, 10(4):275-288. doi: 10.2166/hydro.2008.054.
• Dawson, R.J. and Hall, J.W. (2006) Adaptive importance sampling for risk analysis of complex infrastructure systems, Proc. R. Soc. A, 462(2075): 3343–3362.
• Hall, J.W., Sayers, P.B. and Dawson, R. J. (2005), National-scale assessment of current and future flood risk in England and Wales, Natural Hazards, 36(1-2): 147-164.
• Hall, J.W., Dawson, R.J., Sayers, P.B., Rosu, C., Chatterton, J.B. and Deakin, R. (2003) A methodology for national-scale flood risk assessment. Water and Maritime Engineering, ICE, 156(3) 235-247. (doi: 10.1680/wame.2003.156.3.235)