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Find out about a career in the Humanitarian and International Development (HID) sector

  • FAQs
  • The framework
  • Realistic overview

These FAQs provide guidance for structural engineers operating in the HID sector.

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This framework is designed to illustrate the types of skills that structural engineers will require to be successful in the sector.

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This article provides a realistic overview of the practical and ethical considerations when seeking to work in the sector.

Working in the sector

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Structural safety and risk conference

Bringing together construction leaders, this conference focuses on managing risk effectively and creating a safer built environment for all.

  • 12 June 2025
  • 10:00 - 17:00 BST
  • Hybrid
  • £25 - £325 + VAT

Dr Yasemin Didem Aktas

Dr Yasemin, a UCL academic and current Chair of the Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team (EEFIT) Management Committee, explores her career path driven by her passion for built heritage and the planet.

Amanda Constantinesco, MIStructE

Amanda Constantinesco, MIStructE describes her career highlights, her structural engineering journey and the role models who shaped her.

Responding to disaster

Global earthquake Disaster Reduction, Response, Reconstruction (DDDR)

Dr Kit Miyamoto, a world expert in disaster resilience engineering explains how to reduce damage and facilitate disaster recovery through earthquake resilient engineering.

Flood resilient housing: a multi-hazard approach

Understand flood risk management and flood resistance, resilience, and avoidance in residential projects. ut labore.

EEFIT mission report: Turkey earthquake sequence Feb 2023

Read the EEFIT field mission report on the 2023 earthquakes.

Lectures on the response to earthquake disasters

Earthquake resilience assessment of urban areas based on data resources and automated modelling.

Development of empirical fragility functions after the 2020 earthquakes in and around Turkey.

Using data to explore the effects of disaster policies on post-earthquake household relocation decisions.

Franky Ken MIStructE

Franky talks about his experiences working in the humanitarian and international development sector.

Seb Kaminski FIStructE

Seb Kaminski talks about his experiences as a full member of the Institution's Humanitarian and International Development Panel, and the sector.

Engineering new schools in Africa's largest slum

Becky Rabjohn talks about her work with Engineers without borders in Kenya, helping to improve school buildings in Kenya.

Humanitarian and International Development

Is rigorous structural engineering possible in a humanitarian context?

This case study explores how emergency shelters were made more resilient in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.

Miriam Graham

Miriam Graham from the Humanitarian and International Development Panel explores her motivations and experiences in the sector.

Build Change: The engineer’s role in improving global housing resilience

This lecture provides an overview of the global challenges to resilient housing and proven solutions for risk reduction.

What is the Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team (EEFIT)?

 

Find out more about EEFIT: this unique joint venture between academia and Industry.

Read about their objectives, their structure, the different membership grades and how you can get involved.

Read about EEFIT