Work Packages
SALIENT research will be driven by six clearly defined work-packages.
Work package 1 is a crosscutting Leadership and Governance work package that will provide the co-ordination and central oversight of SALIENT activity, including the devolved funding portfolio.
Work packages 2-6 will focus research on the UKRI’s Building a secure and resilient world priority sub-themes
Work package: 1 Leadership and Governance
Providing the co-ordination and central oversight of SALIENT activity, including the devolved funding portfolio
Led by Richard Kirkham, Connie Smith, Maya Vachkova
Work Package 2: Global Order in a Time of Change
Help strengthen UK role in shaping an international order that is secure, resilient and just.
Led By Paul Nightingale and Maya Vachkova
Work package 3: Technologies for Resilient Security and Defence
Advance the capacity of state defence and security, economy and society to reduce vulnerabilities, to respond to and recover from shocks through innovation and technological advancement.
Led By Richard Kirkham and Mark Elliott
Work package 4: Resilient and Secure Supply Chains
Increase the resilience of supply chains (food, critical materials, manufacturing, complex systems) to a wide variety of potentially interacting shocks.
Led by Michael Lewis
Work Package 5: Behavioural and Cultural Resilience
Reduce the impact of shocks on individuals and communities through adaptation and embracing change, deployment of resources for personal resilience that is fair and just.
Led by Sharon Clarke, Duncan Shaw and Connie Smith
Work Package 6: Strengthening Resilience in Natural and Built Environments
Mitigate impact of natural and anthropogenic hazards and risks on wider societal processes and operations in rural and urban contexts being responsive to particular requirements of place.
Led By Philipp Theis and James Evans
