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Dr Vangelis Pitidis

Assistant Professor

 Evangelos.Pitidis@warwick.ac.uk

 +44(0)24 765 24571

  R2.10, Ramphal Building, School of Cross-Faculty Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL

Biography

Vangelis Pitidis is an Assistant Professor of Global Sustainable Development at IGSD, focusing on the intersection of urban resilience, governance and citizen science both in the Global North and in the Global South.His research is focused on urban resilience and its potential to transform the traditional pathways of urban governance delivery as well as in developing participatory methods for engaging local communities in disaster risk management, based on dialogical co-production methods. Among others, he is currently working on the EU HORIZON 2020 funded project RISKPACC: Integrating Risk Perception and Action to enhance Civil protection-Citizen interactionLink opens in a new window, a project focused on bridging the Risk Perception and Action Gap (RPAG) between Civil Protection Authorities and local citizens.

Vangelis has previously worked in a number of interdisciplinary projects on building resilience and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in developing countries partiularly in Latin America and Africa. Prior to his current occupation, Vangelis has worked as a Research Fellow in the interdisciplinary project Waterproofing Data: Engaging Stakeholders in Sustainable Flood Risk Governance for Urban Resilience (2023 ESRC Outstanding Societal Impact AwardLink opens in a new window) and co-led of the associated UKRI GCRF Global Research Translation Award aiming to enhance flood resilience in two different communities in São Paulo and Rio Branco (Acre), in Brazil. His interdisciplinary background, cutting across social sciences, urban planning, human geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has helped him undertake a number of different roles in many developmental projects, including teaching and lecturing at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He is currently the lead convenor for the module ES99E: Urban Resilience, Disasters and DataLink opens in a new window, a core module of the MSc in Humanitarian EngineeringLink opens in a new window, while he is also the co-convenor for the module GD325: Addressing disasters for sustainable DevelopmentLink opens in a new window.

Vangelis is currently acting as the Impact Lead for the School of Cross-Faculty Studies and the ECR representative in the newly created Sustainability Spotlight Network Initiative based at the University of Warwick.

Warwick Social Capital Assessment Framework
Funded by WWF through the WWF Wholescape and John Lewis Partnership | Award: £55,486 | April 2024 – September 2025
Role: Principal Investigator (PI)

A Habitat of Planetary Ecologies for Sustainable Futures (HoPE Nexus)
EUTOPIA Connected Communities | Award: €10,000 | 2025 – 2028
Role: Project Co-Lead

Localising Global Data through Participatory Interpretation: A Water Security Case Study in Nigeria (GLocalWater)
Participatory Research Fund, University of Warwick | Award: £24,733 | 2024 – 2025
Role: Project Co-Lead

RiskPACC: Integrating Risk Perception and Action to Enhance Civil Protection–Citizen Interaction
EU Horizon 2020-SU-SEC | Award: €5.5m | September 2021 – August 2024
PI: Dr Claudia Berchtold (Fraunhofer INT) | Co-I: Prof. Jon Coaffee (University of Warwick)
Role: Co-Investigator (Co-I)

Facilitating Knowledge Exchange Between Citizens and Policy Makers Through Dialogical Participatory Mapping
Policy Support Fund, University of Warwick | Award: ~£50K | January – July 2023
Role: Principal Investigator (PI)

Early Career Researcher Network for the UN Sustainable Development Goals
ESRC Impact Acceleration Account: Evolving Impact and Impact Network Grant | Award: £39.2K | September 2021 – July 2022
PI: Giorgia Barboni (Warwick Business School)
Role: Co-Investigator (Co-I)

Accelerating the Impact of Citizen-Generated Data for Improving the Monitoring and Management of Catastrophic Flooding
ESRC Impact Acceleration Account: Evolving Impact and Impact Network Grant | Award: ~£50K | University of Warwick
Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
(Recipient of the Outstanding Early Career Impact Award by the Warwick Department of Social Sciences)

UKRI GCRF Global Research Translation Award: Waterproofing Data
Global Challenges Research Fund | Award: ~£328K | October 2019 – December 2021
PI: Prof. Pamela Thomas (University of Warwick) | Co-I: Prof. Porto de Albuquerque (University of Warwick)
Role: Co-Investigator (Co-I)

Waterproofing Data: Engaging Stakeholders in Sustainable Flood Risk Governance for Urban Resilience
Belmont Forum / ESRC / FAPESP / BMBF | Award: €1m | June 2018 – September 2021
Funding under the Transformations to Sustainability programme (Belmont Forum & NORFACE, delivered in the UK by ESRC under GCRF).
Partners in Brazil and Germany; fieldwork in Rio Branco and São Paulo.
PI: Prof. Porto de Albuquerque (University of Warwick, Institute for Global Sustainable Development)
Role: Postdoctoral Research Fellow (PDRF)

UK–Brazil Collaboration for Investigating the Nexus Between Water, Health and Urban Resilience
University of Warwick & São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) | Award: £20K | September 2018 – September 2020
Partners: University of Warwick, University of São Paulo (Dept. of Hydraulics & Sanitary Engineering: WADI Lab)
PI: Prof. Porto de Albuquerque (University of Warwick) | Co-I: Prof. Mario Mendiondo (University of São Paulo)
Role: Research Assistant (RA)

Making Sense of Humanitarian Geospatial Data: Assessing Data, Methods and Governance Practices to Improve the Impact of Humanitarian Interventions on Health and Wellbeing
ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (International Development NGO Data Fund) | Award: £6K | September 2018 – March 2019
Role: Named Researcher (NR)

NIHR Global Health Unit on Improving Health in Slums
National Institute for Health Research | Award: £5.6m | June 2017 – March 2021
PI: Prof. Richard Lilford (Warwick Medical School) | Co-I: Prof. Porto de Albuquerque (budget managed: £600K)
Work Package 1: Geo-spatial mapping of health services in slums (Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan)
Role: Research Assistant (RA)

Investigating the Nexus Between Water, Health and Urban Resilience
Warwick Brazil Partnership Fund / Santander Universities | Award: £18.7K | August 2016 – July 2018
Role: Research Assistant (RA)

UK–Brazil Collaboration on Leveraging Crowdsourced and Sensor Data to Support Urban Resilience
EPSRC GCRF Institutional Award | Award: £50K | June 2016 – March 2017
Partners: British Geological Survey, CEMADEN (Brazil), CPRM (Brazil), University of São Paulo, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Co-I: Dr Nathaniel Tkacz
Role: Research Assistant (RA)

 

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