Strengthening local resilience

Local resilience is at the forefront of peoples’ mind as they think about today’s emergency and the next looming disruption.

The Local Resilience Forum (LRF) is the local body that convenes resilience practitioners to prepare for/respond to/recover from emergencies and there are 38 LRFs covering England. Those LRFs are looking forward to substantial changes as government seeks to strengthen LRFs ready for the new national ambition to deliver a whole of society approach to resilience. This webinar considers how strengthened LRFs can deliver local resilience.

Offering a unique opportunity to calibrate experiences & learning from the same disruptive event, the University of Manchester completed an ethnographic study of (inter)national and local resilience meetings at the heart of recovery efforts throughout 2020–2022, culminating in 30 research interviews examining the experiences of strategic recovery leads from partnerships across England.

Strengthening local resilience

Join us as Professor Duncan Shaw (Alliance Manchester Business School) and David Powell (Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute) share insights from the journey through the Covid-19 pandemic years and ask what did we learn about the future of resilience?

Was Covid-19 just the ‘fire-drill’, or first in a new class of pandemic? How can we strengthen LRFs for future disruptions?  

In this webinar we will examine

• learning of strategic recovery leads for the future of LRFs 
• how LRFs can meet the national ambition for societal resilience 
• how to operationalise societal resilience as a future capability
• the importance of local capability

Read more about our Recovery, Renewal, Resilience research