Dr Jitendra Agarwal
BTech, Ph.D.(Bristol)
Expertise
I am a Civil Engineer working across disciplinary boundaries. Approaching from a systems perspective, I have made substantial contributions to structural safety, and resilience of infrastructures and communities.
Current positions
Senior Lecturer in Structural Engineering
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
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Biography
During my postdoctoral work, I examined the vulnerability and robustness of structures. This took me to nuclear industry before I became an academic. I continued to research on structural safety and risk whilst undertaking teaching responsibilities in the same areas.
With increasing frequency of natural hazards, I started to study the vulnerability and resilience of infrastructure systems as well. This has broadened to include the communities who depend upon infrastructure systems and thus the even wider issue of human security.
Research interests
My research on vulnerability and resilience examines the way structures and infrastructures are designed to protect against low probability, high consequences events. During extreme natural hazards, communities expect continued availability of infrastructure to recover from the impact of hazards. This demands an understanding of the interactions and interdependency of a wide range of systems. I use systems thinking approaches to model these as exemplified by recent projects: Resilient Economy and Society by Integrated Systems Modelling (in China), Seismic Safety and Resilience of Schools (in Nepal), and Beyond the Network Cities (in Africa).
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Beyond the networked city: building innovative delivery systems for water, sanitation and energy in urban Africa
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
01/04/2020 to 30/06/2024
Critical Human Security and Sustainable Urban Development in India
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
As population growth and migration have put increasing pressure on India’s major cities, peri-urban development and satellite towns have emerged to relieve the pressure points as well as to become…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
02/01/2020 to 30/06/2020
8035 GCRF GLOBAL RESEARCH TRANSLATIONAL AWARDS EP/T015462/1 - SAFER PREPARED
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
SAFER PREPARED is a UKRI funded GCRF project 2020-2021 led at University of Bristol in partnership with colleagues in Malawi.
It is part of a wider Programme on "Innovative data…Managing organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
01/10/2019 to 31/03/2022
SAFER Seismic safety and resilience of schools in Nepal
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
This project aims at developing a comprehensive scheme for enhancing the seismic safety and resilience of school buildings in Nepal. The circle of resilience initiates from a holistic seismic hazard…Managing organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
01/05/2017 to 30/06/2021
Resilient Economy and Society by Integrated SysTems modelling (RESIST)
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
In the past decades, great progresses have been made in tackling disaster risk around the world especially since the Hyogo Framework for Action in 2005. However, there are still many…Managing organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
25/01/2016 to 24/01/2020
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
24/01/2024Safer and Resilient Schools in Seismic Regions
Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems
Critical human security and the uneven distribution of risk and insecurity: Neighbourhoods and the pandemic in Delhi, India
Improving Safety Through Statistical Analysis of Construction Fatalities
SAFER: Improving seismic resilience of schools and educational communities
Smart tools for self assessing community resilience in seismic regions: a case study from Nepal
Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Earthquake Engineering & Seismology - 3ECEES
Teaching
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