The University of Salford

Faculty Member, School of the Built Environment

Head of Centre for Disaster Resilience /Associate Head of School (International Development)

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Professor Dilanthi Amaratunga (r.d.g.amaratunga@salford.ac.uk) is the Professor of Disaster Management at the University of Salford, UK where she leads the University's Centre for Disaster Resilience, responsible for supporting research on disaster management portfolios. She is also the Associate Head of International Development for the School of the Built Environment. Her research interests include post disaster reconstruction including conflict mitigation, gender and projection; Capability and Capacity building in managing disasters; Socio‐economic measures for conflict affected re‐construction and women in construction. She is the Co‐Editor of International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment. She has presented widely at International conferences, has led international disaster management workshops and seminars and working actively with the UN. Dilanthi is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). As a member of the RICS, she leads several of their disaster management initiatives. She has supervised and supported a wide range of Postgraduate Research students and to date she has produced over two hundred publications, refereed papers and reports, and has made a large number of presentations in around 25 countries. She was the Coordinator of the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction's (CIB) Task Group 53 on Postgraduate Research from 2003 until 2010. Dilanthi’s  profile can be found at www.dilanthiamaratunga.net

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