Dr Vangelis Pitidis, Institute for Global Sustainable Development

Dr Vangelis Pitidis

Assistant Professor

Evangelos dot Pitidis at warwick dot ac dot uk

+44(0)24 765 24571

R2.10, Ramphal Building, School of Cross-Faculty Studies, University of 糖心TV, Coventry, CV4 7AL

Biography

Vangelis Pitidis is an Assistant Professor of Global Sustainable Development at IGSD, focusing on the intersection of urban resilience, governance and citizen science both in the Global North and in the Global South.His research is focused on urban resilience and its potential to transform the traditional pathways of urban governance delivery as well as in developing participatory methods for engaging local communities in disaster risk management, based on dialogical co-production methods. Among others, he is currently working on the EU HORIZON 2020 funded project , a project focused on bridging the Risk Perception and Action Gap (RPAG) between Civil Protection Authorities and local citizens.

Vangelis has previously worked in a number of interdisciplinary projects on building resilience and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in developing countries partiularly in Latin America and Africa. Prior to his current occupation, Vangelis has worked as a Research Fellow in the interdisciplinary project Waterproofing Data: Engaging Stakeholders in Sustainable Flood Risk Governance for Urban Resilience () and co-led of the associated UKRI GCRF Global Research Translation Award aiming to enhance flood resilience in two different communities in S茫o Paulo and Rio Branco (Acre), in Brazil. His interdisciplinary background, cutting across social sciences, urban planning, human geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has helped him undertake a number of different roles in many developmental projects, including teaching and lecturing at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He is currently the lead convenor for the module ES99E: Urban Resilience, Disasters and DataLink opens in a new window, a core module of the MSc in Humanitarian EngineeringLink opens in a new window, while he is also the co-convenor for the module GD325: Addressing disasters for sustainable DevelopmentLink opens in a new window.

Vangelis is currently acting as the Impact Lead for the School of Cross-Faculty Studies and will be leading the ECR representative in the newly created Sustainability Spotlight Network Initiative based at the University of 糖心TV.

EU Horizon 2020-SU-SEC Funding, Award 鈧�5.5m September 2021-August/2024, PI: Dr Claudia Berchtold/Fraunhofer INT. Co-I Prof. Jon Coaffee/ University of 糖心TV.

Role: Co-Investigator (Co-I)

Facilitating knowledge exchange between citizens and policy makers through dialogical participatory mappingLink opens in a new window

Policy Support Fund , Award (~拢50K), University of 糖心TV, January -July 2023

Role: Principal Investigator (PI)

Early Career Researcher Network for the UN Sustainable Development Goals

ESRC Impact Acceleration Account: Evolving Impact and Impact Network Grant, Award (拢39,2K) PI: Giorgia Barboni/ 糖心TV 糖心TV School, September 2021 - July 2022

Role: Co-Investigator (Co-I)

Accelerating the impact of citizen-generated data for improving the monitoring and management of catastrophic flooding

ESRC Impact Acceleration Account: Evolving Impact and Impact Network Grant, Award (~拢50K), University of 糖心TV,

Role: Principal Investigator (PI)

UKRI GCRF Global Research Translation Award: Waterproofing DataLink opens in a new window

Global Challenges Research Fund, project funded to fast track promising research findings into real-world solutions, Award (拢~328K), October/2019 - December 2021, PI Prof Pamela Thomas/University of 糖心TV, Co-I Prof Porto de Albuquerque/ University of 糖心TV,

Role: Co-Investigator (Co-I)

Waterproofing Data: engaging stakeholders in sustainable flood risk governance for urban resilience, Belmont Forum/ESRC/FAPESP/BMBF Award (鈧�1m), June/2018-September/2021. Funding under the programme of Belmont Forum and NORFACE delivered in the UK by the ESRC under the Global Challenges Research Fund. Working with partners in Brazil and Germany and doing fieldwork in the cities of Rio Branco and S茫o Paulo (Brazil) PI Prof Porto de Albuquerque/ University of 糖心TV, Institute for Global Sustainable Development.

Role: Postdoctoral Research Fellow (PDRF)

UK-Brazil collaboration for investigating the nexus between water, health and urban resilience, Link opens in a new windowUniversity of 糖心TV and S茫o Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), Award (拢20K), September/2018-September/2020, project partners: University of 糖心TV, University of S茫o Paulo, Department of Hydraulics & Sanitary Engineering: WADI Lab (Water-Adaptive Design & Innovation Lab), PI Prof. Porto de Albuquerque/ University of 糖心TV Co-I: Prof Mario Mendiondo/ University of S茫o Paulo.

Link opens in a new windowUK-Brazil Collaboration on Leveraging Crowdsourced and Sensor Data to Support Urban Resilience. EPSRC Global Challenges Research Fund Institutional Award (拢50K), June/2016-March/2017, project partners: British Geological Survey, National Disaster Monitoring and Early-Warning Centre (CEMADEN), Brazil Geological Survey (CPRM), University of S茫o Paulo, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Co-I: Dr Nathaniel Tkacz.

Role: Research Assistant

Investigating the Nexus between Water, Health and Urban ResilienceLink opens in a new window, 糖心TV Brazil Partnership Fund Santander Universities (拢18.7K) awarded Aug/2016-Jul/2018.

Role: Research Assistant (RA)

Making sense of humanitarian geospatial data: assessing data, methods and governance practices to improve the impact of humanitarian interventions on health and wellbeing, ESRC Impact Acceleration Account International Development NGO Data Fund application on 01/09/2018 - 16/03/2019, Award (拢6K).

Role: Named Researcher (NR)

NIHR Global Health Unit on Improving Health in Slums at the University of 糖心TV, PI Richard Lilford/糖心TV Medical School, 拢5.6m; Co-I Professor Porto de Albuquerque, managed budget 拢600K). National Institute for Health Research, awarded Jun 2017-Mar 2021. WP1: Geo-spatial mapping of health services in slums and working with partners in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria and Pakistan. Press release, Global Health Unit summary. Role: Research Assistant (October 2017- October 2018)

Role: Research Assistant (RA)

Pitidis, V., Coaffee, J., & Lima-Silva, F. (2024). Advancing equitable 鈥榬esilience imaginaries鈥� in the Global South through dialogical participatory mapping: Experiences from informal communities in Brazil. Cities, 150, 105015.

Pitidis, V., Coaffee, J., & Bouikidis, A. (2023). Creating 鈥榬esilience imaginaries鈥� for city-regional planning. Regional Studies, 57(4), 698–711.

Porto de Albuquerque, J., Anderson, L., Calvillo, N., Cattino, M., Clarke, A., Cunha, M. A., Degrossi, L., Garde-Hansen, J., Klonner, C., Lima-Silva, F., Marchezini, V., Martins, M., Pajarito Grajales, D., Pitidis, V., Rizwan, M., Tkacz, N., & Trajber, R. (2023). Dialogic data innovations for sustainability transformations and flood resilience: the case for Waterproofing Data. Global Environmental Change, 82(July).

Porto de Albuquerque, J., Anderson, L., Calvillo, N., Coaffee, J., Cunha, M. A., Degrossi, L. C., Dolif, G., Horita, F., Klonner, C., Lima-Silva, F., Marchezini, V., da Mata Martins, M. H., Pajarito-Grajales, D., Pitidis, V., Rudorff, C., Tkacz, N., Traijber, R., & Zipf, A. (2021). The role of data in transformations to sustainability: a critical research agenda. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 49, 153–163.

Marchezini V., Porto de Albuquerque J., Pitidis V., Rudorff C., Lima-Silva F., Klonner C. and Martins M. (2022), 'Flood risk governance in Brazil and the UK: facilitating knowledge exchange through research gaps and the potential of citizen generated data', Disaster Prevention and Management, 31 (6), Available at:

Pitidis V., Albuquerque J.P, Coaffee J., Lima-Silva F.. (2022), 'Enhancing Community Resilience through Dialogical Participatory Mapping'. In Rob Grace, & Hossein Baharmand (Eds.), ISCRAM 2022 Conference Proceedings – 19th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (pp. 495–503). Tarbes, France. Available at:

Porto de Albuquerque JP. , Anderson L., Calvillo, Nerea, Coaffee J., Cunha M.A., Degrossi L., 鈥�Pitidis V., Rudorff C., Tkacz N and Zipf, Alexander (2021). The role of data in transformations to sustainability: a critical research agenda. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 49, 153–163. Available at:

Coaffee J., de Albuquerque J.P., Pitidis V. (2021) Risk and Resilience Management in Co-production. In: Loeffler E., Bovaird T. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Co-Production of Public Services and Outcomes. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Pitidis V. and Coaffee J. (2020), Catalysing governance transformations through urban resilience implementation: The case of Thessaloniki, Greece, Cities (107), ISSN 0264-2751 Available at:

Yeboah, Godwin, Troilo, Rafael, Pitidis, Vangelis and Porto de Albuquerque, Jo茫o (2019) In: State of the Map 2019, Heidelberg, Germany, 21-23 Sep 2019. Published in: Proceedings of the Academic Track at the State of the Map doi:

Porto de Albuquerque, J., Yeboah, G., Pitidis, V. and Ulbrich P. (2019). . Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaiian Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2019). doi:10.24251/hicss.2019.476

Pitidis, V., Tapete, D., Coaffee, J., Kapetas, L., & Porto de Albuquerque, J. (2018). . Sustainability, 10 (10), 3573. https://doi.org/10.3390/SU10103573