Dr Namrata Bhattacharya-mis
Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader in Natural Hazard Management
Biography
Namrata Bhattacharya Mis is an Associate Professor (Disaster Risk and Resilience) in Geography and Environment in the Faculty of Social Science at University of Chester. She is the programme leader for Natural Hazard management course. Namrata is the Co-Chair of university Race Equality And Cultural Heritage Group. She is passionate about enhancing equality and diversity in HE. Her other most recent positions include Chair and advisor of the Ethics Committee (within Geography and Environment).
Teaching and Supervision
Namrata is an experienced lecturer, having taught Geography, International Development Studies and Natural Hazard Management over a number of years. Her more recent focus on teaching is use of innovative technology to enhance inclusion in disaster management. She contributes towards teaching and supervision of Under Graduate and Post Graduate Degree modules. She is currently supervising two PhD students.
Research and Knowledge Exchange
Namrata's research interest is positioned at the intersection of physical geography, human geography and development studies. She aims to understand the complexities of coupled human nature interaction with special reference to disasters. Namrata is a Geographer by training with interest in multidisciplinary research, she is particularly engaged in the understanding and managing the consequence of water extremes and the vulnerabilities of the dynamic socio-economic systems. Her most recent works involves community led knowledge cocreation and participatory research concerning flood risk management. Namrata has experience of working with multidisciplinary teams on research projects focusing on topics including (but not exhaustive): understanding risk perception and memory through social-hydrology; adaptation of urban infrastructure to enhance climate resilience in the global south; exploring the effects of temporal clustering of flood events on natural built and socio-economic systems to identify critical vulnerabilities; use of technology and nature based solutions to enhance flood resilience.