PhD Project: Multi-Objective Spatial Optimisation of Catchment-wide Natural Flood Management Strategies
Supervisors: Prof Richard Dawson, Dr Caspar Hewett, Dr David Hetherington (ARUP)
Henry is a PhD researcher in the School of Engineering at Newcastle University. His research is part of the Centre for Doctoral Training for Resilient Flood Futures or FLOOD-CDT, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). His project explores how to design catchment-scale natural flood management (NFM) strategies, aiming to understand the trade-offs between different NFM interventions towards different objectives such as flood risk, carbon sequestration, habitat creation and water quality.
Henry holds a MEng in General Engineering (specialised in Systems & Control) from the University of Sheffield. This includes a year in industry at the Centre for Process Innovation as a product development engineer in healthtech, working with additive manufacturing and contributing to the High Value Manufacturing Catapult’s Design for Sustainability and Circularity Framework initiative. During his degree, Henry was an active member of student-led projects such as the IMechE Railway Challenge and iForge Makerspace, teaching him valuable lessons in interdisciplinary collaboration and community-building.
