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Staff Profile

Professor Claire Walsh

Professor in Water Security

  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 6447
  • Address: School of Engineering
    Room 3.13, Cassie Building
    缅北禁地
    缅北禁地 upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
Background

I am Director of Civil and Geospatial Engineering in the School of Engineering. My research interests focus on long-term change in both natural environments and urban systems, with a strong focus on water security and sustainable infrastructure. 

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Director of Civil and Geospatial Engineering
  • Co-Director, 缅北禁地's Centre of Research Excellence in Water
  • Co-Director, National Green Infrastructure Facility
  • Editorial Panel Member for Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability
  • Champion of 缅北禁地's Global Challenges Academy’s Sustainable Water Network 

Current PhD Students

  • Alethea Goddard: Green Infrastructure: understanding its role in mitigating current and future flood risk in urban areas.
  • Ashwini More: Water sensitive urban planning and design, based on ecosystem services 
  • Asid Ur Rehman: Optimising flood risk management interventions in catchments and cities.
  • Samalia Kanoma: Climate change impacts of water resources in Nigeria.
  • Tsendenya Tafesse: Earth observation and land surface model applications for water resource potential assessment and water scarcity indices over Ethiopian basins towards sustainable water resource utilization
  • Dominic Kay: Multiple environmental risks in the Johor State (based at NUMed).
  • Ellie McGrady: Groundwater resilience under extreme drought
  • Abdulrahman Badaoud: Impact of the extensive use of groundwater for irrigation in an arid region, and benefits of the virtual water trade, case study for Saudi Arabia
  • Andre Madson Araujo Frota: Catchments as the first stage of treatment
  • Vladislav Dmitrievich Dukhovskoy: City-scale strategies for urban drainage to regulate quantity and quality of flow.
  • Medha: Natural flood management: monitoring and modelling
  • Pablo De La Fuente Cusicanqui: Understanding and modelling surface-subsurface flow interactions in urban areas during floods.
  • Usman Soja Bala:
  • Madeleine Tate: Peri-urban strategies for sustainable surface water management.
  • Joshua Weatherill-Frew: Post-conflict water infrastructure reconstruction in Ukraine.

Past PhD Students

  • Matt Kirby (2024): Multifunctional green belts - mainstreaming nature in a contentious policy space to address the climate and ecological emergencies.
  • Farzana Ahmed Mohuya (2024): A Holistic Framework for Urban Flood Risk Management in Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Rixia Zan (2023): Biochar amended sand as pollution attenuating materials for sustainable stormwater management 
  • Johannes Senn (2023): Geometric calibration for geomorphological photogrammetric surveys
  • Laura McGinty (2020): Business model innovation for green urban infrastructure
  • Golnaz Jahanshah (2018): Uncertainties in long-term management of water resources 

Qualifications

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 
  • PhD Civil Engineering at 缅北禁地
  • BSc (First Class Honours) Geography at 缅北禁地

Memberships

  • Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy
  • British Hydrological Society

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Research

Research Interests

Global water security

Flood risk assessment and management in urban areas

Green infrastructure

Climate impacts on water resources

Infrastructure business models

Hydromorphology 

Funding

EPSRC. Centre for Doctoral Training in Water Infrastructure and Resilience II. (£6M, 2024-2032). Co-I.

UK – Ukraine R&I twinning grant. Programme to Enhance Academic Collaboration for Enabling Regenerative Reconstruction in Ukraine (PEACE-R2UK) (£164k, 2023) Co-I.

ESRC. Using participatory approaches to instigate improvements in water quality: UK and Taiwan (£60k, 2021-2023). PI.

NERC. PYRAMID: Platform for dYnamic, hyper-resolution, near-real time flood Risk AssessMent Integrating repurposed and novel Data source. (£787k, 2020-2022). Co-I. 

EPSRC. Centre for Doctoral Training in Water Infrastructure and Resilience. (£6.6M, 2019-2027). Co-I.

GCRF. Water Security and Sustainable Development Hub. (£20M, 2019-2024). Co-I.

NERC. Building resilience to pluvial flood risk (Kampala, Uganda). (£250k, 2018-2020). PI

EPSRC. UKCRIC - UK Collaboratorium for Research in Infrastructure & Cities: 缅北禁地 Laboratories. ( £9.7M, 2016 - 2021). Co-I.

EPSRC. Grand Challenge in Water: Tailored Water to ENsure sustainabiliTY beyond 2065 (£3.9M, 2016-2021). Co-I.

NERC Drought resilience in ecosystem services and rural communities in China. (£160k, 2016-2017). Co-I.

EPSRC Preparing for GCRF: Advancing planning of drainage in Low and Middle Income Countries. (£20k, 2016-2017). PI.

EPSRC Prosperity Outcomes: Resilient Nation: Planning and building new tools for climate resilient. (£35k, 2016-2017). PI.

EPSRC. Impact Acceleration Award: Web-service simulation model and tool for flood risk management in urban areas (£80k, 2016-2017). PI.

NERC. Delivering green infrastructure in cities through a new business model. (£30k, 2016-2016). Co-I.

Institute for Sustainability, 缅北禁地. BUG: Bio-informing Urban Gardening (£34k, 2015-2016). PI.

Science Central, 缅北禁地. MINT Community Action and Knowledge Exchange. (£8k, 2015-2016). Co-I.

Science Central, 缅北禁地. SPATIAL: Sparse data acquisition via societal collaboration. (£7k, 2014-2015). PI. 

Workers Education Association. Greening Wingrove Barometer. (£18k, 2013-2017). PI.

EPSRC. Knowledge Transfer Secondment at 缅北禁地 City Council (£70k, 2011-2012).

Other Research Projects

iBUILD (Infrastructure BUsiness models, valuation and Innovation for Local Delivery). Research programme/Centre Manager and core research fellow; jointly-funded by EPSRC and ESRC. 2013-2017.

Reconciling Adaptation, Mitigation and Sustainable Development for Cities. Named researcher; EU FP7 funded. 2012-2017.

SHOCK Project. Named researcher; EPSRC funded. 2011-2013.

Adaptation and Resilience in Cities: Analysis and Decision making using Integrated Assessment. Research co-ordinator; EPSRC funded. 2009-2012.

Platform Grant on Earth Systems Engineering. Named researcher; EPSRC funded. 2008-2014.

Severe Weather Events Risk and Vulnerability Estimator. Researcher Co-Investigator; EPSRC funded. 2008-2011.

Sustaining Knowledge for a Changing Climate. Core researcher; EPSRC funded. 2006-2008.

Incorporating Climate Change into River Typologies. Core researcher; Environment Agency funded. 2006-2007.

Engineering Cities Project. Named researcher; Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research; NERC funded. 2006-2009.

Equivalent Flows for Freshwater Fisheries. Core researcher; Environment Agency funded. 2004-2006.

Sustainable Water Uncertainty, Risk and Vulnerability in Europe. Research assistant; EU FP5 funded. 2003-2004.

Esteem Indicators

  • Awarded 缅北禁地's 'Best Environment Research Project' in 2016 (BUG) and 2014 (Cafe Waste).
  • Invited guest speaker and mentor at The National Center for Atmospheric Research’s Institute for Mathematics’ Applied to Geosciences Theme of the Year Workshop on Uncertainty in Climate Change Research: An Integrated Approach, held in Boulder Colorado, August 2012.
  • Guest Editor for a double Special Issue of Hydrology Research, published January 2012.
  • Elected Honorary Secretary of the British Hydrological Society for two terms (2008-2012).
  • Chair of the Organising Committee for the British Hydrological Society six-yearly International Symposium held at 缅北禁地, 2010. 
  • Organising committee member for the British Hydrological Society National Symposium, Dundee, 2012.
  • Won a prestigious scholarship to attend Brown University’s International Advanced Research Institute on Climate Change and Water Resources in 2011.
  • 2009 – 2011: Meetings’ Committee Member of the Royal Meteorological Society.
  • 2006 – 2008: Elected Committee Member of the British Hydrological Society.
  • 2004 – 2008: Chair of the Pennines’ Hydrological Group.


Teaching

CEG 3503: Hydrosystems Engineering (Stage 3, Civil Engineering) Module Leader

CEG 3099: Individual Project (Stage 3, Civil Engineering)

CEG 8099: Investigative Research Project (Stage 4, Civil Engineering) Module Leader

CEG 8512: Integrated River Basin Management (MSc, Hydrology and Water Management) Module Leader

CEG 8524: Water Management: Issues and Challenges (MSc, Hydrology and Water Management) Module Leader

CEG 8596: MSc Project and Dissertation in Water Resources (MSc, Hydrology and Water Management)

Publications

  • Articles

    • Carr AB, Trigg MA, Haile AT, Bernhofen MV, Alemu AN, Bekele TW, Walsh CL. . Frontiers in Environmental Science 2024, 12, 1330295.
    • Tedla HZ, Bekele TW, Nigussie L, Negash ED, Walsh CL, O'Donnell G, Haile AT. . Journal of Hydrology 2024, 635, 131076.
    • Gurmassa BK, Gari SR, Solomon ET, Goodson ML, Walsh CL, Dessie BK, Alemu BM. . BMC Infectious Diseases 2024, 24(1), 961.
    • Starkey E, Jones A, Ochoa-Rodriguez S, Mahajan S, Wei C-L, Chen P-C, Liu S-Y, Wang L-P, Walsh CL. . Frontiers in Environmental Science 2024, 12, 1371048.
    • Kwa YC, Suboh N, Kay DSW, Lee CIS, Walsh CL, Goodson ML. . Medical Journal of Malaysia 2024, 79(4), 397-407.
    • Balcha SK, Hulluka TA, Awass AA, Bantider A, Ayele GT, Walsh CL. . Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 2024, 52, 101733.
    • Ali AS, Gari SR, Goodson ML, Walsh CL, Dessie BK, Ambelu A. . International Journal of Environmental Health Research 2025, 35(4), 909-921.
    • Zeleke G, Kassawmar T, Tadesse M, Demessie E, Girma A, Anteneh Y, Gelaw F, Walsh C, O'Donnell G. . Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 2024, 8, 1393863.
    • Gurmassa BK, Gari SR, Solomon ET, Goodson ML, Walsh CL, Dessie BK, Alemu BM. . Tropical Medicine and Health 2024, 52(1), 41.
    • Dessie BK, Aschale M, Polaine X, Melaku S, Alamirew T, Walsh CL, Werner D, Zeleke G. . Science of the Total Environment 2024, 908, 168326.
    • Zan R, Stirling R, Blackburn A, Walsh C, Werner D. . Science of the Total Environment 2024, 931, 172831.
    • Goodson ML, Kwa YC, Suboh N, Sing CLI, Wei DKS, Walsh CL. . Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development 2023, 13(10), 825-832.
    • Kirby MG, Scott AJ, Walsh CL. . Ecosystems and People 2023, 19(1), 2276752.
    • Dessie BK, Mehari B, Gari SR, Mihret A, Desta AF, Melaku S, Alamirew T, Walsh CL, Werner D, Zeleke G. . Biological Trace Element Research 2023, 201, 577-591.
    • Ali AS, Gari SR, Goodson ML, Walsh CL, Dessie BK, Ambelu A. . Urban Water Journal 2023, 20(9), 1207-1218.
    • Assegide E, Shiferaw H, Tibebe D, Peppa MV, Walsh CL, Alamirew T, Zeleke G. . Remote Sensing 2023, 15(4), 1155.
    • Ali AS, Gari SR, Goodson ML, Walsh CL, Dessie BK, Ambelu A. . PLoS ONE 2023, 18(11), e0288425.
    • Hashemi Monfared SA, Walsh CL, Curtis TP, Jarvis AP, Dehghani Darmian M, Khodabandeh F. . Ecological Informatics 2023, 75, 101999.
    • Tibebe D, Degefu MA, Bewket W, Teferi E, O'Donnell G, Walsh C. . Climate 2023, 11(10), 212.
    • Alemu AN, Haile AT, Carr AB, Trigg MA, Mengistie GK, Walsh CL. . Natural Hazards Research 2023, 3(3), 395-407.
    • Ali AS, Gari SR, Goodson ML, Walsh CL, Dessie BK, Ambelu A. . Environmental Health Insights 2023, 17, 11786302231181307.
    • Zan R, Blackburn A, Plaimart J, Acharya K, Walsh C, Stirling R, Kilsby C, Werner D. . Science of The Total Environment 2023, 889, 164282.
    • Negash ED, Asfaw W, Walsh CL, Mengistie GK, Haile AT. . Sustainable Water Resources Management 2023, 9(3), 78.
    • Dessie BK, Mehari B, Tefera M, Osman M, Tsegaye Y, Gari SR, Desta AF, Melaku S, Alamirew T, Goodson ML, Walsh CL, Zeleke G, Mihret A. . Toxicology Reports 2022, 9, 1777-1787.
    • Polaine XK, Dawson R, Walsh CL, Amezaga J, Pena-Varon M, Lee C, Rao S. . Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems 2022, 39(3), 205-223.
    • Hiruy AM, Mohammed J, Haileselassie MM, Acharya K, Butte G, Haile AT, Walsh C, Werner D. . Science of the Total Environment 2022, 826, 153912.
    • More A, Walsh CL, Dawson RJ. . Blue-Green Systems 2022, 4(2), 340-347.
    • Senn JA, Mills J, Walsh CL, Addy S, Peppa M-V. . Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 2022, 47(6), 1615-1634.
    • Bekele TW, Haile YM, Trigg MA, Walsh C. . Natural Hazards Research 2022, 2(2), 97-110.
    • Dessie BK, Mehari B, Osman M, Gari SR, Desta AF, Melaku S, Alamirew T, Goodson ML, Walsh CL, Zeleke G, Mihret A. . BioMetals 2022, 35, 1341–1358.
    • Walsh CL, Glendinning S, Dawson RJ, O'Brien P, Heidrich O, Rogers CDF, Bryson JR, Purnell P. . Frontiers in Sustainable Cities 2022, 4, 825801.
    • Butte G, Solano-Correa YT, Peppa MV, Ruiz-Ordonez DM, Maysels R, Tuqan N, Polaine X, Montoya-Pachongo C, Walsh C, Curtis T. . Water 2022, 14(18), 2907.
    • Khadem M, Dawson RJ, Walsh CL. . Climate Risk Management 2021, 33, 100322.
    • Frantzeskeki N, McPhearson T, Kendal D, Bulkeley H, Dumitri A, Walsh CL, Noble K, Van Wyk E, Ordonez C, Oke C, Pinter L. . BioScience 2019, 69(6), 455-466.
    • Walsh C, Stirling R, Stott K, Cherry B. . Water Industry Journal 2018, (8), 48-49.
    • Palmero V, Walsh CL, Dawson RJ, Fichera A, Inturri G. . Journal of Cleaner Production 2018, 187, 893-902.
    • Bridgens B, Powell M, Farmer G, Walsh CL, Reed E, Royapoor M, Gosling P, Hall J, Heidrich O. . Journal of Cleaner Production 2018, 189, 145-154.
    • Carhart C, Bouch C, Walsh CL, Dolan T. . Infrastructure Asset Management 2016, 3(4), 143-153.
    • Walsh CL, Blenkinsop S, Fowler HJ, Burton A, Dawson RJ, Glenis V, Manning LJ, Jahanshahi G, Kilsby CG. . Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 2016, 20, 1869-1884.
    • Dolan T, Walsh CL, Bouch C, Carhart N. . Infrastructure Asset Management 2016, 3(4), 132-142.
    • Brown S, Aplin KL, Jenkins K, Mander S, Walsh CL, William PD. . Weather 2015, 70(7), 198–204.
    • Sayers P, Walsh CL, Dawson RJ. . Infrastructure Asset Management 2015, 2(2), 69-83.
    • Walsh CL, Glendinning S, Castán-Broto V, Dewberry E, Powell M. . Futures 2015, 67, 1-10.
    • Castán Broto V, Glendinning S, Dewberry E, Walsh CL, Powell M. . Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2014, 84, 186-196.
    • Powell M, Glendinning S, CastanBroto V, Dewberry E, Walsh C. . Anthropology in Action 2014, 21(2), 14-22.
    • Heidrich O, Dawson RJ, Reckien D, Walsh CL. . Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Viewpoints 2014, 10, 17-21.
    • Dawson RJ, Walsh CL, Purnell P, Rogers CDF. . Infrastructure Asset Management 2014, 1(3), 66-67.
    • Walsh CL, Roberts D, Dawson RJ, Hall JW, Nickson A, Hounsome R. . Environment and Urbanization 2013, 25(2), 361-380.
    • Walsh CL, Glendinning S, Dawson RJ, England K, Martin M, Watkins CL, Wilson R, Glenis V, McLoughlin A, Parker D. . Proceedings of the ICE - Engineering Sustainability 2013, 166(2), 98-107.
    • Heidrich O, Dawson RJ, Reckien D, Walsh CL. . Climatic Change 2013, 120(4), 771-784.
    • Walsh CL, Dawson RJ, Hall JW, Barr SL, Batty M, Bristow AL, Carney S, Dagoumas A, Ford AC, Harpham C, Tight MR, Watters H, Zanni A. . Urban Design and Planning 2011, 164(2), 75-84.
    • Orr H, Large ARG, Newson M, Walsh CL. . Geomorphology 2008, 100(1-2), 32-40.
    • Walsh CL, Kilsby CG. . Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 2007, 11(3), 1127-1143.
    • Mayes WM, Walsh CL, Bathurst JC, Kilsby CG, Quinn RF, Wilkinson ME, Daugherty AJ, O'Connell PE. . Water and Environment Journal 2006, 20(4), 217-226.

  • Book Chapters

    • Hall JW, Dawson RJ, Barr SL, Batty M, Bristow AL, Carney S, Dagoumas A, Ford A, Tight MR, Walsh CL, Watters H, Zanni AM. . In: Bose, R.K, ed. Energy Efficient Cities: Assessment Tools and Benchmarking Practices. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank, 2010, pp.43-64.
    • Dawson RJ, Hall JW, Barr SL, Batty M, Bristow A, Carney S, Dagoumas A, Evans S, Ford AC, Harwatt H, Kohler J, Tight M, Walsh CL, Zanni A. . In: Tang, K, ed. Green CITYnomics: The Urban War against Climate Change. Sheffield: Greenleaf Publishing, 2009, pp.32-52.

  • Editorials

    • Walsh CL. . Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Engineering Sustainability 2020, 173(4), 161-162.
    • Walsh C, Fowler H, Kilsby C, Black A. . Hydrology Research 2012, 43(5), 548-550.

  • Letter

    • Brown S, Aplin KL, Jenkins K, Mander S, Walsh C, Williams PD. . BMJ 2016, 352, i265.

  • Reports

    • Hall JW, Dawson RJ, Walsh CL, Barker T, Barr SL, Batty M, Bristow AL, Burton A, Carney S, Dagoumas A, Evans S, Ford AC, Glenis V, Goodess CG, Harpham C, Harwatt H, Kilsby CG, Kohler J, Jones P, Manning L, McCarthy M, Sanderson M, Tight MR, Timms PM, Zanni A. . The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 2009.
    • Walsh CL, Hall JW, Street RB, Blanksby J, Cassar M, Ekins P, Glendinning S, Goodess C, Handley J, Noland R, Watson SJ. . 缅北禁地, 2007.
    • Dawson RJ, Hall JW, Barr SL, Batty M, Bristow A, Carney S, Evans S, Ford A, Köhler J, Tight M, Walsh CL. . Tyndall Centre for Climate Change, 2007. 104.

  • Review

    • Ho JY, Lavinya AA, Kay DSW, Lee CIS, Razmi AH, Walsh CL, Goodson ML, Eswaran J. . Frontiers in Water 2022, 4, 779860.