Our research
CIReN brings infrastructure sectors together to innovate and improve national infrastructure resilience to climate change and global pandemics, and to support Net Zero initiatives.
Research themes
CIReN’s research in critical national infrastructure centres around the threats, systems and methodologies we use to analyse their resilience.
- CIReN’s research diagram (text version)
Infrastructure systems: Telecoms, Electricity, Gas, Transport, Water
Threats: Climate change, Cybersecurity, Pandemics, Security of Supply
Methodologies: System modelling (intersects with Infrastructure systems), Dynamics (intersects with Infrastructure systems), Threat detection (intersects with Threats), Social impact (intersects with Threats), Network science, Climate modelling, Control
Intersecting themes: Resilience, Adaptation, Mitigation
Our expertise` will allow us to tackle infrastructure resilience holistically, as represented by the "infrastructure resilience" cube":
- Infrastructure resilience cube (text version)
Three axes of infrastructure resilience, with examples in increasing severity. Each sub-box in the cube also represents severity.
Sectors: Electricity, Gas, Water, Telecoms, Transport
Threats: Pandemics, Security of Supply, Climate, Cyberattacks
Impacts: Disruption, Emergency, Collapse, Loss of life
Mitigation, Adaptation and Resilience encompass the whole cube.
The core purpose of CIReN is to gather and expand this expertise by setting up and maintaining a toolbox of methodologies in the form of an organised database. The tools that we have already developed and ones that will be developed collaboratively will be openly available to our partners – and that includes the researcher-time spent to develop these tools.
We will apply our skills and tools to current and relevant real-world problems. There is sometimes a shortage of case studies and realistic problems that we can address. If you have one that needs solving, contact us and we can help.
- Our word cloud
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