Risky Cities outputs, publications and resources
The Risky Cities Toolkit
A practical toolkit of creative, place-based methods to support participatory conversations about flood risk and coastal erosion, developed through the University of Hull’s Risky Cities project.
Authors: Edward Brookes, Briony McDonagh, Steven Forrest, Gill Hughes, Stewart Mottram, Kate Smith, Katerina Velentza, Hannah Worthen
Reporting Date: 10 Feb 2026
Wet Feet Warm Hearts Strong Places
A community created zine about flood resilience in Hull
Authors: Louis Dorton, Kate Smith, Ed Brookes, Briony McDonagh, Jack Chamberlain, Gill Hughes
Reporting Date: 8 Aug 2023
Journal Article: Watery archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement
Authors: Hannah Worthen, Claire Weatherall
Journal: Area
Publisher: The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) / Wiley
Reporting Date: 21 November 2024
Journal Article: Place-Based Arts Engagement and Learning Histories: An Effective Tool for Climate Action
Authors: Kate Smith, Ed Brookes, Briony McDonagh
Journal: Environmental Communication
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Reporting Date: 28 Jul 2024
Magazine: People Power and Water Politics
Authors: Hannah Worthen, Briony McDonagh, Kate Smith, Ed Brookes, Gill Hughes, Stewart Mottram
Publisher: History Workshop Journal
Reporting Date: 16 Jan 2024
Journal Article: Learning histories, participatory methods and creative engagement for climate resilience
Authors: Briony McDonagh, Ed Brookes, Jack Chamberlain, Thomas Coulthard, Gill Hughes, Stewart Mottram, Amy Skinner, Kate Smith, Hannah Worthen
Journal: Journal of Historical Geography
Publisher: Elsevier
Reporting Date: 1 Oct 2023
Report: Floodlights Review Infographic
Infographic summarising the audience evaluation following the FloodLights event, hosted in partnership with Absolutely Cultured in Hull City Centre
Authors: Kate Smith, Ed Brookes, Briony McDonagh
Reporting Date: 14 Jan 2022
Governing flood risk in mid seventeenth-century England
Authors: Briony McDonagh, Hannah Worthen, Stewart Mottram
Journal: Journal of Historical Geography
Publisher: Elsevier
Reporting Date: 18 Mar 2025
Journal Article: Living with water and flood in medieval and early modern Hull
Authors: Briony McDonagh, Hannah Worthen, Stewart Mottram, Stormm Buxton-Hill
Journal: Environment and History
Publisher: White Horse Press
Reporting Date: 12 Feb 2024
Book Chapter: Learning from arts and humanities approaches for building climate resilience in the UK
Authors: Ed Brookes, Briony McDonagh, Kate Smith, Jenna Ashton, Alice Harvey-Fishenden, Alan Kennedy-Asser, Neil Macdonald, Corinna Wagner,
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Reporting Date: 31 Oct 2023
Journal Article: Deluge and disease: plague, the poetry of flooding, and the history of health inequalities in Andrew Marvell’s Hull
Author: Stewart Mottram
Journal: Seventeenth Century
Publisher: Routledge
Reporting Date: 5 Dec 2022
Policy Document: Reimagining where we live: cultural placemaking and the levelling up agenda.
Authors: Kate Smith, Briony McDonagh, Ed Brookes, Lynnsey Pilmer
Written evidence to the Inquiry submitted from the Energy and Environment Institute, University of Hull.
Reporting Date: 22 Mar 2022
