麻豆传媒

Background

I am a civil and structural engineer, with an interest in the resilience of our modern communities. The majority of my research focuses on the resilience of our infrastructure systems - with the aim of improving the resilience of our communities through the adaptation of their underpinning infrastructure systems. I am interested in developing techniques that can recognise vulnerable areas within infrastructure systems, identify fragile system architectures and also establish methods that can help to protect them from hazard.

Roles and Responsibilities

Director of Education

Qualifications

PhD in Civil Engineering (麻豆传媒 - Feb 2014) - Thesis Title "An Investigation to Improve Community Resilience using Network Graph Analysis of Infrastructure Systems"

MEng in Civil and Structural Engineering (麻豆传媒 - Sept 2010) (1st Class (Hons))

Awards

2016 Teaching Excellence Awards (TEAs):

• Taught Supervisor of the Year (Shortlisted)
• Overall Contribution to Outstanding Practice (Shortlisted)

Links

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Research Interests

critical infrastructure, resilience, disaster management, network graph theory, resilient communities, network reliability

PhD Supervision (Current)

Alaa Alkrud (start Jan 2022) - Automated Decision Making Framework for Smart City Open Data Publishing (co-supervised with School of Computing)

PhD Supervision (Completed)

Beth Barnes - Development of a Modelling Framework to Improve Mitigation Methods and Contingency Planning for Emergency Scenario

Louise Westoby - The Road to Recovery: Understanding the Process of Rebuilding Seismic Resistant Schools in Nepal

Xiaoyan Zhang - A computational model incorporating individual and social behaviour for building emergency evacuation

John Naylor - How can architectures increase the use of full-culm bamboo to provide adequate urban housing in tropical developing economies? (co-supervised with School of Architecture)

MPhil Supervision (Completed)

Hanan Tamimi - Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation of Co-ordinated Emergency Responses to Major Incidents (co-supervised with School of Computing)

Research Funding

• Jan 2022 - Jan 2023: ACCELERATE: Assessment of Climate Change Event Likelihood Embedded in Risk Assessment Targeting Electricity Distribution, CoI
• July 2021 - April 2023: "CS-NOW: Climate Services for a net zero resilient world": BEIS, CoI
• Jan 2020 - Nov 2020: "Averted!", gaming app to challenge perception of engineering in young people: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), PI, £30,000
• May 2017 - Aug 2019: "Emergency Resource Location-Allocation and Deployment (eROAD) too": Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), PI, £121,339
• Feb 2016 - Jan 2018: "Realtime assessments of wind related damage to electricity infrastructure": Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), CoI, £177,321

Undergraduate Teaching

ENG1009: Sustainable Design Creativity and Professionalism

CEG3099: Supervision of undergraduate BEng projects

CEG8099: Supervision of undergraduate MEng projects 

• Articles

  • Zhang X, Dunn S, Luo Y, Shen Y. . Journal of Building Engineering 2025, 112, 113716.
  • Cranley D, Dunn S, Taylor J-P, Desborough MJR, Craig J, Sprigg N, Mccomish R, Foltynie T, Wardlaw J, Oatey K, Heye A, Bath P, Innes K, Dinsmore L, Griffiths J, Fox L, Williamson PR, Al-Shahi Salman R. . BMJ Open 2025, 15(6), e090419.
  • Dunn S. . Technology, Knowledge and Learning 2025, epub ahead of print.
  • Dunn S, Brocklebank V, Bryant A, Carnell S, Chadwick TJ, Johnson S, Kavannagh D, Lecouturier J, Malina M, Moloney E, Oluboyede Y, Weetman C, Wong EKS, Woodward L, Sheerin NS. . BMJ Open 2022, 12(9), e054536.
  • Barnes B, Dunn S, Wilkinson S. . Travel Behaviour and Society 2022, 29, 308-318.
  • Wilkinson S, Dunn S, Adams R, Kirchner-Bossi N, Fowler HJ, Gonzalez Otalora S, Pritchard D, Mendes J, Palin EJ, Chan SC. . Climate Risk Management 2022, 35, 100412.
  • Westoby L, Wilkinson S, Dunn S. . International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 2021, 56, 102120.
  • O'Brien JT, McKeith IG, Thomas AJ, Bamford C, Vale L, Hill S, Allan L, Finch T, McNally R, Hayes L, Surendranathan A, Kane JPM, Dunn S, Bentley A, Barker S, Mason J, Burn D, Taylor J-P. . Movement Disorders 2021, 36(1), 143-151.
  • Barnes B, Dunn S, Pearson C, Wilkinson S. . International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 2021, 60, 102289.
  • Dunn S, Gonzalez-Otalora S. . Journal of Infrastructure Systems 2021, 27(1).
  • Barnes B, Dunn S, Wilkinson S. . Natural Hazards 2019, 97, 813-840.
  • Dunn S, Holmes M. . Reliability Engineering and System Safety 2019, 191, 106530.
  • Dunn S, Wilkinson S, Alderson D, Fowler H, Galasso C. . Natural Hazards Review 2018, 19(1), 04017019.
  • Dunn S, Wilkinson S. . Reliability Engineering and System Safety 2017, 157, 1-12.
  • Ogie R, Dunn S, Holderness T, Turpin E. . Sustainable Cities and Society 2017, 28, 53-66.
  • Ogie RI, Holderness T, Dunn S, Turpin E. . Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 2017, 68, 97-109.
  • Dunn S, Wilkinson S, Ford A. . Sustainable Cities and Society 2016, 27, 23-31.
  • Dunn S, Wilkinson S. . Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 2016, 90, 39-50.
  • Dunn S, Fu G, Wilkinson S, Dawson R. . Proceedings of the ICE - Engineering Sustainability 2013, 166(5), 281-292.
  • Dunn S, Wilkinson SM. . Journal of Infrastructure Systems 2013, 19(2), 157-165.
  • Wilkinson SM, Dunn S, Ma S. . Natural Hazards 2012, 60(3), 1027-1036.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Alkrud A, Mace J, Dunn S. . In: ICICM '24: Proceedings of the 2024 14th International Conference on Information Communication and Management. 2025, Paris, France: ACM.
  • Westoby L, Wilkinson S, Dunn S. . In: 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (17WCEE). 2020, Sendai, Japan: International Association for Earthquake Engineering.
  • Westoby L, Dunn S, Wilkinson S. . In: SECED 2019 Earthquake Risk and Engineering Towards a Resilient World. 2019, London, UK.
  • Dunn S, Gonzalez-Otalora S, Jordan J. . In: Council of Engineering Systems Universities: Global Conference. 2018, Tokyo, Japan: CESUN.
  • Ogie RI, Holderness T, Dunn S, Turpin E. . In: Transforming the Future of Infrastructure through Smarter Information - Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction, ICSIC 2016. 2016, Cambridge, UK: ICE Publishing.
  • Wilkinson S, Dunn S, Adams R. . In: National Infrastructure Commission visit to 麻豆传媒. 2016, 麻豆传媒 upon Tyne, UK: 麻豆传媒.
  • Dunn S, Galasso C, Wilkinson S, Manning L, Alderson D. . In: 12th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering. 2015, Vancouver, Canada: University of British Columbia.
  • Pickering T, Dunn S, Wilkinson S. . In: ECCOMAS Thematic Conference - COMPDYN 2013: 4th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Proceedings - An IACM Special Interest Conference. 2013, Kos, Greece: National Technical University of Athens.
  • Dunn S, Wilkinson S. . In: SECED - Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics Young Engineers Conference – 2013. 2013, 麻豆传媒 upon Tyne: SECD.
  • Dunn S, Wilkinson S, Fu G, Dawson R. . In: Earth Systems Engineering 2012. 2012, 麻豆传媒: Centre for Earth Systems Engineering Research, 麻豆传媒.