2026
Academic article
Martin LL and Ruszczyk H (2026) "Humanitarian Frontiering: Competition, Markets and Governance in Refugee Cash Assistance Programs", EPA: Economy and Space.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0308518X261420630?_gl=1*1tadmn0*_up*MQ..*_ga*OTkxMzUxNjc5LjE3NzI0NDI3MzM.*_ga_60R758KFDG*czE3NzI0NDI3MzMkbzEkZzAkdDE3NzI0NDI3MzMkajYwJGwwJGgxMDMzODE1Nzgy
2025
Academic article
E.B. Robson, P. McGowran, H.A. Ruszczyk, B.D. Malamud, E. Simpson, A.L. Densmore, N. Denton, N. Chapplow, P. Gurung, T.E. Hall, R. Harries, J. Jenkins, A. KC, R. Kotter, A. Kumar, B. Limbu, D. Milledge, G. Porter, N. Rosser, F.E. Taylor, D.G. Toll, M.G. Winter, K. Woldearegay,
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Intersections of Roads, Sustainable Development, and Disaster Resilience, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105691
2024
Academic article
Curtis S, Leach M, Ardern K, Beckerman C, Hunter PR, Ruszczyk HA, and Pelling M (2024) ‘Health and wellbeing in the face of crises associated with climate or conflict: How can knowledge from the humanities and social sciences help us respond to disasters?’, Journal of the British Academy,
https://journal.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/articles/12/1and2/a13
Book chapters
Truelove Y. and Ruszczyk H.A. (2024) Conceptualizing Bodies as Urban Infrastructure: Gender, Intimate Infrastructures and Slow Infrastructural Violence in Urban Nepal and India, in Truelove Y. and Sabhlok A. (eds) Gendered Infrastructures: Space, Scale and Identity, West Virginia University Press
Ahmed I and Ruszczyk HA, (2024) “I want to live here”!: Livability of small cities, in: (eds) Next50: Collective Futures, Critical creative perspectives on the built environment in Bangladesh, Open Studio+Context
Book review
Ruszczyk HA (2024) Book review of Krasny E (2023) Living with an Infected Planet: Covid-19, Feminism and the Global Frontline of Care, Bielefield, Germany for the Journal of Disaster Studies, https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/950751
2023
Book
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2023) Gender and Resilience in the City: Infrastructures, aspirations and slow violence in Nepal, Practical Action Publishing, Rugby UK. https://practicalactionpublishing.com/book/2704/gender-and-resilience-in-the-city
Academic articles
Rahman, MF, Lewis, D, Kuhl, L, Baldwin A, Ruszczyk, HA, Nadiruzzaman, MD and Mahid, Y (2023) ‘Managed Urban Retreat: The Trouble with Crisis Narratives’, Urban Geography, June 2023
https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2023.2228094
Ruszczyk H.A., Halligey A., Rahman M.F., and Ahmed I (2023) Liveability and Vitality: an exploration of small cities in Bangladesh, CITIES, 133 February 2023
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.104150
Nugraha E, Wesely J, Ruszczyk HA, De Villiers I and Zhao Y (2023) Overlooked cities: Shifting the gaze in research and practice in global urban studies, CITIES Viewpoint, 133 February 2023
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.104044
Digital Magazine
Martin, L.L. and Ruszczyk, H.A. (2023) Futures of Humanitarian Aid: Cash Assistance to People on the Move, Durham, UK: Durham University, Department of Geography. Available at https://www.glitchspaces.org
Photo essay
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2023) “‘We have arrived’: Gendered Roads in Bharatpur, Nepal.” Roadsides 9: 51–58.
Art
Sabeel S, Vanessita A, Choudhury P, Yadav S with Ruszczyk H (2023) ‘Resilience’, three visual representations of resilience created by artists based on anonymised transcripts of interviews with GRRIPP project stakeholders, implementors and beneficiaries, https://www.grripp.net/artwork
2022
Academic articles
Ruszczyk HA (2022) ‘It’s the right thing to do’: specificities of the Polish response to the Ukrainian crisis, Fennia, 200 (1) 23 Dec 2022, 1-3
https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/125368/75895
Ruszczyk H.A., Castán Broto V.C., and McFarlane C. (2022) Urban Health Challenges: Lessons from COVID-19 Responses, Geoforum 131, 105-115, doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.03.003
Truelove Y. and Ruszczyk H.A. (2022) Bodies as urban infrastructure: Gender, Intimate Infrastructures and Slow Infrastructural Violence, Political Geography, open access, 10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102492
Khan M, Ruszczyk HA, Rahman F and Huq S. (2022) Epistemological Freedom: Decolonising knowledge through activating co-learning and co-production, Disaster Prevention and Management, Special Issue on Decolonization of Knowledge
doi.org/10.1108/DPM-03-2021-0070
Digital Magazine
Ruszczyk, HA, Chmutina K and Desmaison B (2022) Feminism and the City? Digital Magazine, June 2022, https://www.grripp.net/digitalmagazine
Book chapter
Ruszczyk H.A. (2022) Overlooked cities and under researched Bharatpur, Nepal In: Button C and Aiken G T (eds) Over-researched Places? Towards a critical and reflexive approach, Routledge Series: Studies in Human Geography, 100-110
Digital Intervention and Blog
Bradshaw S, Chmutina K, Field J, Fordham M, Le Masson V, Ruszczyk H and Walmsley O (alphabetical order), (2022) Gender in DRR – Mainstreamed Into Invisibility, Blog GRRiPP, 26 May 2022
https://www.grripp.net/post/gender-in-drr-mainstreamed-into-invisibility
Rahman M F, Kuhl L, Ruszczyk H, Nadiruzzaman MD, Warner J, Krause D and Baldwin A (2022) “Social justice and environmental sustainability must be at the heart of climate related relocation efforts”, 19 May 2022 E-letter, Science
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abi9209
Pandemic 2021
Academic articles
Ruszczyk H.A., Rahman M.F., Bracken L.J., and Sudha, S. (2021) Contextualising COVID-19 pandemic's impact on food security in two small cities of Bangladesh, Environment and Urbanization, 33(1) 239-254
https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0956247820965156, OPEN ACCESS
Ruszczyk H.A. (2021) ‘Newly Urban Nepal’, Urban Geography, 42 (2) 218-225,
https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1756683
Book
Ruszczyk, H.A. Nugraha, E. and de Villiers, I. (2021) (eds) Overlooked Cities: Power, Politics and Knowledge Beyond the Urban South, Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City series, Routledge.
Digital Magazine
Neves Alves S and Ruszczyk HA (2021) Thinking from the overlooked city, Generating a research agenda & network on small / secondary cities, Digital Magazine
Book chapters
Rahman M.F. and Ruszczyk H.A. (2021) The Pandemic and Food Insecurity in Small Cities of the Global South: A Case Study of Noapara in Bangladesh, In: Doucet B., van Melik R. and Filion P., (eds) Global Reflections on COVID-19 and Urban Inequalities, Volume 1: Community and Society, Policy Press
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/global-reflections-on-covid-19-and-urban-inequalities
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2021) ‘From informality to incrementalism’, book chapter In Ruszczyk, H.A. Nugraha, E. and de Villiers, (eds) Overlooked Cities: Power, Politics and Knowledge Beyond the Urban South, Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City series, Routledge.
Ruszczyk, H.A. Nugraha, E., de Villiers I. and Price M. (2021) Introduction In: Ruszczyk, H.A. Nugraha, E. and de Villiers, (eds) Overlooked Cities: Power, Politics and Knowledge Beyond the Urban South, Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City series, Routledge.
Blog
Ruszczyk HA (2021) From a focus on humanity to care, Blog GRRiPP, 24 August 2021
https://www.grripp.net/post/from-a-focus-on-humanity-to-care
Pandemic 2020
Academic articles
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2020) ‘DE-densifying knowledge of cityness’ for a special issue on DENCITY of Urban Geography edited by Professor Colin McFarlane, 41(10), 1267-1273
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02723638.2020.1837528
Halligey A, Ahmed. I., Rahman, F., and Ruszczyk, H.A. (2020) ‘Ethics as Negotiated and Emergent in a Study of Liveability in Small Cities’, Sentio Journal - Special Issue on Ethics of Research Project Life Cycle, 91-93,
https://sentiojournal.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Sentio_Issue_2_Reflections_07.pdf
Ruszczyk H.A, Upadhyay, B.K., Kwong Y.M.C., Khanal, O., Bracken, L.J., Pandit, S., and Bastola, R. (2020) 'Empowering Women through Participatory Action Research in Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction Efforts', International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Special Issue on Gender, Resilience and Sustainability, published online 15 August 2020
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101763
Ruszczyk H.A., and Price M.W.H. (2020) ‘Aspirations in Grey Space: Neighbourhood Governance in Nepal and Jordan’ Area, Royal Geographical Society with IBG
52 (1) 156-163
https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/area.12562
Digital Intervention
Ruszczyk H.A. and Bhandari R. (2020) ‘From Hope to Optimism and Back Again’ Intervention for AntipodeOnline.org, 30 September 2020 https://antipodeonline.org/2020/09/30/from-hope-to-optimism-and-back-again/
Book chapters
Oven K, Ruszczyk HA and Rigg J (2020) Spaces of Disaster, In: Wilson H and Darling J (eds) Research Ethics for Human Geography, Sage, pp 280-288.
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2020) Gendered Invisible Urban Resilience. In: Allen A., Twigg J. and Burayidi M. (eds.). Routledge Handbook on Urban Resilience. Routledge, pp 260-271
THE CONVERSATION article
Rahman, F. and Ruszczyk, H.A. (2020), “Coronavirus - how lockdown exposed food insecurity in a small Bangladeshi city”, THE CONVERSATION, 16 July 2020, https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-how-lockdown-exposed-food-insecurity-in-a-small-bangladeshi-city-140684
Blogs
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2020) ‘What I learnt about the concept of liveabilty’, 12 May 2020 Blog SHLC Project, University of Glasgow, http://www.centreforsustainablecities.ac.uk/news/what-i-learnt-about-the-concept-of-liveability/
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2020) ‘Learning about Liveable Regional Cities’, 15 March 2020 Blog, Durham University Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience https://www.dur.ac.uk/ihrr/research/themes/disruptedcities/liveable.cities/
Podcasts
Ruszczyk, H.A. and Khan M. (2020) ‘COVID19, Food security and mutual aid’, COVIDCALLS podcast hosted by Scott Knowles, Episode 138, 1 hour and 5 minutes long, 30 September 2020 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/covidcalls/id1516341147
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2020) ‘Decolonising Research Methods’ at 27:35 minute in Chmutina, K. and van Meding J. (2020) Disasters: Deconstructed Podcast S3 E11 – Disaster Studies Manifesto Part 1, 14 September 2020 https://disastersdecon.podbean.com
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2020) ‘My views on Resilience’ at 6:06 minute, 13:23 minute and 20:18 minute in Chmutina, K. and van Meding J. (2020) Disasters: Deconstructed Podcast S2E8 – Resilience (Audience Special) 24 February 2020 https://disastersdecon.podbean.com
Videos
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2020) ‘What I learnt through Liveability’, four minute video, 12 May 2020
http://www.centreforsustainablecities.ac.uk/news/what-i-learnt-about-the-concept-of-liveability/
Ahmed, I., Halligey, A., and Ruszczyk, H.A. (2020) ‘Liveable Regional Cities of Bangladesh’ five minute video, January 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfxw7DfiPRA
2019
Academic article
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2019) ‘Ambivalence towards disaster resilience’, Disasters 43 (4), pp 818-839
https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezphost.dur.ac.uk/toc/14677717/0/0, published on the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction’s portal https://www.preventionweb.net/publications/view/67254 and also published as part of World Humanitarian Day 2019 Virtual Issue for Disasters and Development Policy Review
Digital Magazine
De Coss-Corzo A., Ruszczyk, H.A., and Stokes, K. (2019) ‘Labouring Urban Infrastructure’ Digital Magazine
http://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/institutes/mui/InfrastructuresZine191007.pdf
Collective writing (2019) Interlude, Feminist Approaches to Infrastructure in De Coss-Corzo, A., Ruszczyk, H.A., and Stokes, K. ‘Labouring Urban Infrastructure’ Digital Magazine pg 21 http://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/institutes/mui/InfrastructuresZine191007.pdf
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2019) ‘Response to image: Women as (Invisible Labouring) Infrastructure’ in De Coss-Corzo A., Ruszczyk H.A. and Stokes K. ‘Labouring Urban Infrastructure’ Digital Magazine pg 24-26 http://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/institutes/mui/InfrastructuresZine191007.pdf
UN Publication
Ruszczyk H.A. (2019) ‘A continuum of risks in urban Nepal’, contributing paper to GAR 2019 (the UNISDR’s biennial global assessment report of disaster risk reduction). June 2019
https://gar.unisdr.org also found on Prevention Web, the knowledge platform for disaster risk reduction https://www.preventionweb.net/publications/view/65947
THE CONVERSATION article
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2019) "Earthquakes or tiger attacks: understanding what people fear most can help prevent disasters", THE CONVERSATION, May 23, 2019.
https://theconversation.com/earthquakes-or-tiger-attacks-understanding-what-people-fear-most-can-help-prevent-disasters-117137 also found on the World Economic Forum's website https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/hanna-ruszczyk/
Video
Durham University (2019) 'Giving women a voice in disaster risk reduction' Video, 3 July 2019,
https://www.dur.ac.uk/research/news/item/?itemno=39258
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOLjLimvW5M&t=5s
Blogs
Price M. and Ruszczyk, H.A. (2019) ‘On What Basis are Urban Futures Being Made?’ Blog Geographical Directions, 28 June 2019.
https://blog.geographydirections.com/2019/06/28/on-what-basis-are-urban-futures-being-decided/
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2019) "The Earthquake and Ideas Lying Around" Blog post reflecting on my presentation and the 'Epicenter to Aftermath' Workshop at SOAS, 11-12 Jan 2019
sway.soscbaha.org/blogs/the-earthquake-and-ideas-lying-around/
2018
Academic article
Ruszczyk H.A. (2018) 'A continuum of perceived urban risk - from the Gorkha earthquake to economic security’ in Environment and Urbanization ONLINE http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956247817744927
for a preprint version you can download, please use:
/dro.dur.ac.uk/24661/
Book
Bracken L.J., Ruszczyk H.A. and Robinson T. eds. (2018) Evolving narratives of hazard and risk: The Gorkha earthquake, Nepal, 2015. Palgrave Pivot. London.
Sole authored book chapters
Ruszczyk H.A. (2018) Reflecting on the earthquake, tread carefully. In: Dominelli L., Bun Ku H., and Nikku B. (eds.). Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work. Routledge.
Ruszczyk H.A. (2018) Chapter 8: The Earthquake and Ideas Lying Around. In: Bracken L.J., Ruszczyk H.A., and Robinson T. (eds.). Evolving narratives of hazard and risk: The Gorkha earthquake, Nepal, 2015. Palgrave Pivot. London. pp 125-139.
Co-authored book chapters
Ruszczyk H.A. and Robinson T. (2018) Chapter 1: Introduction to the Gorkha Earthquake. In: Bracken L.J., Ruszczyk H.A., and Robinson T. (eds.). Evolving narratives of hazard and risk: The Gorkha earthquake, Nepal, 2015. Palgrave Pivot. London. pp 3-13.
Dixit A.M., Shrestha S.N., Guragain R., Dhungel R., et al. (2018) Chapter 2: Earthquake Risk Reduction Efforts in Nepal: NSET’s Experience. In: Bracken L.J., Ruszczyk H.A., and Robinson T. (eds.). Evolving narratives of hazard and risk: The Gorkha earthquake, Nepal, 2015. Palgrave Pivot. London. pp 15-43.
Robinson T., Ruszczyk H.A. and Bracken L.J. (2018) Chapter 11: Looking and moving forward. In: Bracken L.J., Ruszczyk H.A., and Robinson T. (eds.). Evolving narratives of hazard and risk: The Gorkha earthquake, Nepal, 2015. Palgrave Pivot. London. pp 183-192.
Video
Ruszczyk, H. A. (2018) https://www.facebook.com/urbanresilienceresearch/videos/2291436877755063/ video of my presentation ‘Urban gendered ‘We’ness of resilience’ 10 Dec 2018 at the Urban Resilience Reframing Conference in Barcelona 10-12 December 2018 organised by the Urban Resilience Research network and UNHabitat
Blog
Ruszczyk, H. A. (2018) 'Urban gendered ‘We’ness of resilience' BLOG post https://sciforum.net/paper/view/conference/5946 from the Urban Resilience Reframing Conference in Barcelona 10-12 December 2018 organised by the Urban Resilience Research network and UNHabitat
2017
PhD thesis
Ruszczyk H.A. (2017) The everyday and events: understanding risk perceptions and resilience in urban Nepal. Doctor of Philosophy. Durham University. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12440/
United Nations publication
Ruszczyk, H. A. (2017) “Organizing for Urban Resilience … and, Possibly, for Transformation: TDCs in Bharatpur, Nepal” United Nations Research Institute for Social Development Think Piece Series Linking Resilience Thinking and Transformative Change, 21 August 2017
http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BE6B5/(httpNews)/B2E8DC091F1A2C80C1258183002A3A3A?OpenDocument
2015
Reports, newspaper articles
Ruszczyk, H. A. (2015) “Dispatch from Bharatpur, Nepal, Five Months after the Earthquake”, Natural Hazards Observer, September 2015 Vol XL (1) pg 15-17.
https://hazards.colorado.edu/article/dispatch-from-bharatpur-nepal-five-months-after-the-gorkha-earthquake
Ruszczyk, H. A. (2015) “Nepal Earthquake report, first hand experience from Nepal during the recent earthquake”, Durham University, Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience Newsletter Summer 2015, Vol 8, (1) pg 26-30.
Ruszczyk, H. A., Rigg J. and Oven K. J. (2015) “Earthquake experts pen first – person account from ground zero”, Straits Times April 28, 2015.
2014
Master of Arts thesis
Ruszczyk H.A. (2014) Local understandings of community resilience in earthquake prone Nepal. Master of Arts by Research. Durham University.
etheses.dur.ac.uk/9511/
Report
Ruszczyk, H. A. (2014) “Mitigating Earthquake Risk and Building Resilience in Nepal”, Durham University, Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience Magazine Summer 2014, Vol 1, (3) pg 30-33.
2001
UN Report
Ruszczyk H. A., Schubert I. and Stoyanovska A., (2001) “Local response to globalization: MESTA Region, Bulgaria, InFocus Programme on Boosting Employment through Small Enterprise Development, Job Creation and Enterprise Department, International Labour Office, Geneva.
https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_emp/---emp_ent/---ifp_seed/documents/publication/wcms_117721.pdf
1996
UN Report
Ruszczyk H.A. United Nations Development Programme Poland (1996) National Human Development Report, Part Five, Section XXIV Organising for local economic development in Plock Province pg 259-260.
Academic article
Martin LL and Ruszczyk H (2026) "Humanitarian Frontiering: Competition, Markets and Governance in Refugee Cash Assistance Programs", EPA: Economy and Space.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0308518X261420630?_gl=1*1tadmn0*_up*MQ..*_ga*OTkxMzUxNjc5LjE3NzI0NDI3MzM.*_ga_60R758KFDG*czE3NzI0NDI3MzMkbzEkZzAkdDE3NzI0NDI3MzMkajYwJGwwJGgxMDMzODE1Nzgy
2025
Academic article
E.B. Robson, P. McGowran, H.A. Ruszczyk, B.D. Malamud, E. Simpson, A.L. Densmore, N. Denton, N. Chapplow, P. Gurung, T.E. Hall, R. Harries, J. Jenkins, A. KC, R. Kotter, A. Kumar, B. Limbu, D. Milledge, G. Porter, N. Rosser, F.E. Taylor, D.G. Toll, M.G. Winter, K. Woldearegay,
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Intersections of Roads, Sustainable Development, and Disaster Resilience, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105691
2024
Academic article
Curtis S, Leach M, Ardern K, Beckerman C, Hunter PR, Ruszczyk HA, and Pelling M (2024) ‘Health and wellbeing in the face of crises associated with climate or conflict: How can knowledge from the humanities and social sciences help us respond to disasters?’, Journal of the British Academy,
https://journal.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/articles/12/1and2/a13
Book chapters
Truelove Y. and Ruszczyk H.A. (2024) Conceptualizing Bodies as Urban Infrastructure: Gender, Intimate Infrastructures and Slow Infrastructural Violence in Urban Nepal and India, in Truelove Y. and Sabhlok A. (eds) Gendered Infrastructures: Space, Scale and Identity, West Virginia University Press
Ahmed I and Ruszczyk HA, (2024) “I want to live here”!: Livability of small cities, in: (eds) Next50: Collective Futures, Critical creative perspectives on the built environment in Bangladesh, Open Studio+Context
Book review
Ruszczyk HA (2024) Book review of Krasny E (2023) Living with an Infected Planet: Covid-19, Feminism and the Global Frontline of Care, Bielefield, Germany for the Journal of Disaster Studies, https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/950751
2023
Book
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2023) Gender and Resilience in the City: Infrastructures, aspirations and slow violence in Nepal, Practical Action Publishing, Rugby UK. https://practicalactionpublishing.com/book/2704/gender-and-resilience-in-the-city
Academic articles
Rahman, MF, Lewis, D, Kuhl, L, Baldwin A, Ruszczyk, HA, Nadiruzzaman, MD and Mahid, Y (2023) ‘Managed Urban Retreat: The Trouble with Crisis Narratives’, Urban Geography, June 2023
https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2023.2228094
Ruszczyk H.A., Halligey A., Rahman M.F., and Ahmed I (2023) Liveability and Vitality: an exploration of small cities in Bangladesh, CITIES, 133 February 2023
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.104150
Nugraha E, Wesely J, Ruszczyk HA, De Villiers I and Zhao Y (2023) Overlooked cities: Shifting the gaze in research and practice in global urban studies, CITIES Viewpoint, 133 February 2023
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.104044
Digital Magazine
Martin, L.L. and Ruszczyk, H.A. (2023) Futures of Humanitarian Aid: Cash Assistance to People on the Move, Durham, UK: Durham University, Department of Geography. Available at https://www.glitchspaces.org
Photo essay
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2023) “‘We have arrived’: Gendered Roads in Bharatpur, Nepal.” Roadsides 9: 51–58.
Art
Sabeel S, Vanessita A, Choudhury P, Yadav S with Ruszczyk H (2023) ‘Resilience’, three visual representations of resilience created by artists based on anonymised transcripts of interviews with GRRIPP project stakeholders, implementors and beneficiaries, https://www.grripp.net/artwork
2022
Academic articles
Ruszczyk HA (2022) ‘It’s the right thing to do’: specificities of the Polish response to the Ukrainian crisis, Fennia, 200 (1) 23 Dec 2022, 1-3
https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/125368/75895
Ruszczyk H.A., Castán Broto V.C., and McFarlane C. (2022) Urban Health Challenges: Lessons from COVID-19 Responses, Geoforum 131, 105-115, doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.03.003
Truelove Y. and Ruszczyk H.A. (2022) Bodies as urban infrastructure: Gender, Intimate Infrastructures and Slow Infrastructural Violence, Political Geography, open access, 10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102492
Khan M, Ruszczyk HA, Rahman F and Huq S. (2022) Epistemological Freedom: Decolonising knowledge through activating co-learning and co-production, Disaster Prevention and Management, Special Issue on Decolonization of Knowledge
doi.org/10.1108/DPM-03-2021-0070
Digital Magazine
Ruszczyk, HA, Chmutina K and Desmaison B (2022) Feminism and the City? Digital Magazine, June 2022, https://www.grripp.net/digitalmagazine
Book chapter
Ruszczyk H.A. (2022) Overlooked cities and under researched Bharatpur, Nepal In: Button C and Aiken G T (eds) Over-researched Places? Towards a critical and reflexive approach, Routledge Series: Studies in Human Geography, 100-110
Digital Intervention and Blog
Bradshaw S, Chmutina K, Field J, Fordham M, Le Masson V, Ruszczyk H and Walmsley O (alphabetical order), (2022) Gender in DRR – Mainstreamed Into Invisibility, Blog GRRiPP, 26 May 2022
https://www.grripp.net/post/gender-in-drr-mainstreamed-into-invisibility
Rahman M F, Kuhl L, Ruszczyk H, Nadiruzzaman MD, Warner J, Krause D and Baldwin A (2022) “Social justice and environmental sustainability must be at the heart of climate related relocation efforts”, 19 May 2022 E-letter, Science
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abi9209
Pandemic 2021
Academic articles
Ruszczyk H.A., Rahman M.F., Bracken L.J., and Sudha, S. (2021) Contextualising COVID-19 pandemic's impact on food security in two small cities of Bangladesh, Environment and Urbanization, 33(1) 239-254
https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0956247820965156, OPEN ACCESS
Ruszczyk H.A. (2021) ‘Newly Urban Nepal’, Urban Geography, 42 (2) 218-225,
https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1756683
Book
Ruszczyk, H.A. Nugraha, E. and de Villiers, I. (2021) (eds) Overlooked Cities: Power, Politics and Knowledge Beyond the Urban South, Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City series, Routledge.
Digital Magazine
Neves Alves S and Ruszczyk HA (2021) Thinking from the overlooked city, Generating a research agenda & network on small / secondary cities, Digital Magazine
Book chapters
Rahman M.F. and Ruszczyk H.A. (2021) The Pandemic and Food Insecurity in Small Cities of the Global South: A Case Study of Noapara in Bangladesh, In: Doucet B., van Melik R. and Filion P., (eds) Global Reflections on COVID-19 and Urban Inequalities, Volume 1: Community and Society, Policy Press
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/global-reflections-on-covid-19-and-urban-inequalities
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2021) ‘From informality to incrementalism’, book chapter In Ruszczyk, H.A. Nugraha, E. and de Villiers, (eds) Overlooked Cities: Power, Politics and Knowledge Beyond the Urban South, Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City series, Routledge.
Ruszczyk, H.A. Nugraha, E., de Villiers I. and Price M. (2021) Introduction In: Ruszczyk, H.A. Nugraha, E. and de Villiers, (eds) Overlooked Cities: Power, Politics and Knowledge Beyond the Urban South, Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City series, Routledge.
Blog
Ruszczyk HA (2021) From a focus on humanity to care, Blog GRRiPP, 24 August 2021
https://www.grripp.net/post/from-a-focus-on-humanity-to-care
Pandemic 2020
Academic articles
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2020) ‘DE-densifying knowledge of cityness’ for a special issue on DENCITY of Urban Geography edited by Professor Colin McFarlane, 41(10), 1267-1273
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02723638.2020.1837528
Halligey A, Ahmed. I., Rahman, F., and Ruszczyk, H.A. (2020) ‘Ethics as Negotiated and Emergent in a Study of Liveability in Small Cities’, Sentio Journal - Special Issue on Ethics of Research Project Life Cycle, 91-93,
https://sentiojournal.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Sentio_Issue_2_Reflections_07.pdf
Ruszczyk H.A, Upadhyay, B.K., Kwong Y.M.C., Khanal, O., Bracken, L.J., Pandit, S., and Bastola, R. (2020) 'Empowering Women through Participatory Action Research in Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction Efforts', International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Special Issue on Gender, Resilience and Sustainability, published online 15 August 2020
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101763
Ruszczyk H.A., and Price M.W.H. (2020) ‘Aspirations in Grey Space: Neighbourhood Governance in Nepal and Jordan’ Area, Royal Geographical Society with IBG
52 (1) 156-163
https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/area.12562
Digital Intervention
Ruszczyk H.A. and Bhandari R. (2020) ‘From Hope to Optimism and Back Again’ Intervention for AntipodeOnline.org, 30 September 2020 https://antipodeonline.org/2020/09/30/from-hope-to-optimism-and-back-again/
Book chapters
Oven K, Ruszczyk HA and Rigg J (2020) Spaces of Disaster, In: Wilson H and Darling J (eds) Research Ethics for Human Geography, Sage, pp 280-288.
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2020) Gendered Invisible Urban Resilience. In: Allen A., Twigg J. and Burayidi M. (eds.). Routledge Handbook on Urban Resilience. Routledge, pp 260-271
THE CONVERSATION article
Rahman, F. and Ruszczyk, H.A. (2020), “Coronavirus - how lockdown exposed food insecurity in a small Bangladeshi city”, THE CONVERSATION, 16 July 2020, https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-how-lockdown-exposed-food-insecurity-in-a-small-bangladeshi-city-140684
Blogs
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2020) ‘What I learnt about the concept of liveabilty’, 12 May 2020 Blog SHLC Project, University of Glasgow, http://www.centreforsustainablecities.ac.uk/news/what-i-learnt-about-the-concept-of-liveability/
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2020) ‘Learning about Liveable Regional Cities’, 15 March 2020 Blog, Durham University Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience https://www.dur.ac.uk/ihrr/research/themes/disruptedcities/liveable.cities/
Podcasts
Ruszczyk, H.A. and Khan M. (2020) ‘COVID19, Food security and mutual aid’, COVIDCALLS podcast hosted by Scott Knowles, Episode 138, 1 hour and 5 minutes long, 30 September 2020 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/covidcalls/id1516341147
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2020) ‘Decolonising Research Methods’ at 27:35 minute in Chmutina, K. and van Meding J. (2020) Disasters: Deconstructed Podcast S3 E11 – Disaster Studies Manifesto Part 1, 14 September 2020 https://disastersdecon.podbean.com
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2020) ‘My views on Resilience’ at 6:06 minute, 13:23 minute and 20:18 minute in Chmutina, K. and van Meding J. (2020) Disasters: Deconstructed Podcast S2E8 – Resilience (Audience Special) 24 February 2020 https://disastersdecon.podbean.com
Videos
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2020) ‘What I learnt through Liveability’, four minute video, 12 May 2020
http://www.centreforsustainablecities.ac.uk/news/what-i-learnt-about-the-concept-of-liveability/
Ahmed, I., Halligey, A., and Ruszczyk, H.A. (2020) ‘Liveable Regional Cities of Bangladesh’ five minute video, January 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfxw7DfiPRA
2019
Academic article
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2019) ‘Ambivalence towards disaster resilience’, Disasters 43 (4), pp 818-839
https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezphost.dur.ac.uk/toc/14677717/0/0, published on the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction’s portal https://www.preventionweb.net/publications/view/67254 and also published as part of World Humanitarian Day 2019 Virtual Issue for Disasters and Development Policy Review
Digital Magazine
De Coss-Corzo A., Ruszczyk, H.A., and Stokes, K. (2019) ‘Labouring Urban Infrastructure’ Digital Magazine
http://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/institutes/mui/InfrastructuresZine191007.pdf
Collective writing (2019) Interlude, Feminist Approaches to Infrastructure in De Coss-Corzo, A., Ruszczyk, H.A., and Stokes, K. ‘Labouring Urban Infrastructure’ Digital Magazine pg 21 http://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/institutes/mui/InfrastructuresZine191007.pdf
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2019) ‘Response to image: Women as (Invisible Labouring) Infrastructure’ in De Coss-Corzo A., Ruszczyk H.A. and Stokes K. ‘Labouring Urban Infrastructure’ Digital Magazine pg 24-26 http://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/institutes/mui/InfrastructuresZine191007.pdf
UN Publication
Ruszczyk H.A. (2019) ‘A continuum of risks in urban Nepal’, contributing paper to GAR 2019 (the UNISDR’s biennial global assessment report of disaster risk reduction). June 2019
https://gar.unisdr.org also found on Prevention Web, the knowledge platform for disaster risk reduction https://www.preventionweb.net/publications/view/65947
THE CONVERSATION article
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2019) "Earthquakes or tiger attacks: understanding what people fear most can help prevent disasters", THE CONVERSATION, May 23, 2019.
https://theconversation.com/earthquakes-or-tiger-attacks-understanding-what-people-fear-most-can-help-prevent-disasters-117137 also found on the World Economic Forum's website https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/hanna-ruszczyk/
Video
Durham University (2019) 'Giving women a voice in disaster risk reduction' Video, 3 July 2019,
https://www.dur.ac.uk/research/news/item/?itemno=39258
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOLjLimvW5M&t=5s
Blogs
Price M. and Ruszczyk, H.A. (2019) ‘On What Basis are Urban Futures Being Made?’ Blog Geographical Directions, 28 June 2019.
https://blog.geographydirections.com/2019/06/28/on-what-basis-are-urban-futures-being-decided/
Ruszczyk, H.A. (2019) "The Earthquake and Ideas Lying Around" Blog post reflecting on my presentation and the 'Epicenter to Aftermath' Workshop at SOAS, 11-12 Jan 2019
sway.soscbaha.org/blogs/the-earthquake-and-ideas-lying-around/
2018
Academic article
Ruszczyk H.A. (2018) 'A continuum of perceived urban risk - from the Gorkha earthquake to economic security’ in Environment and Urbanization ONLINE http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956247817744927
for a preprint version you can download, please use:
/dro.dur.ac.uk/24661/
Book
Bracken L.J., Ruszczyk H.A. and Robinson T. eds. (2018) Evolving narratives of hazard and risk: The Gorkha earthquake, Nepal, 2015. Palgrave Pivot. London.
Sole authored book chapters
Ruszczyk H.A. (2018) Reflecting on the earthquake, tread carefully. In: Dominelli L., Bun Ku H., and Nikku B. (eds.). Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work. Routledge.
Ruszczyk H.A. (2018) Chapter 8: The Earthquake and Ideas Lying Around. In: Bracken L.J., Ruszczyk H.A., and Robinson T. (eds.). Evolving narratives of hazard and risk: The Gorkha earthquake, Nepal, 2015. Palgrave Pivot. London. pp 125-139.
Co-authored book chapters
Ruszczyk H.A. and Robinson T. (2018) Chapter 1: Introduction to the Gorkha Earthquake. In: Bracken L.J., Ruszczyk H.A., and Robinson T. (eds.). Evolving narratives of hazard and risk: The Gorkha earthquake, Nepal, 2015. Palgrave Pivot. London. pp 3-13.
Dixit A.M., Shrestha S.N., Guragain R., Dhungel R., et al. (2018) Chapter 2: Earthquake Risk Reduction Efforts in Nepal: NSET’s Experience. In: Bracken L.J., Ruszczyk H.A., and Robinson T. (eds.). Evolving narratives of hazard and risk: The Gorkha earthquake, Nepal, 2015. Palgrave Pivot. London. pp 15-43.
Robinson T., Ruszczyk H.A. and Bracken L.J. (2018) Chapter 11: Looking and moving forward. In: Bracken L.J., Ruszczyk H.A., and Robinson T. (eds.). Evolving narratives of hazard and risk: The Gorkha earthquake, Nepal, 2015. Palgrave Pivot. London. pp 183-192.
Video
Ruszczyk, H. A. (2018) https://www.facebook.com/urbanresilienceresearch/videos/2291436877755063/ video of my presentation ‘Urban gendered ‘We’ness of resilience’ 10 Dec 2018 at the Urban Resilience Reframing Conference in Barcelona 10-12 December 2018 organised by the Urban Resilience Research network and UNHabitat
Blog
Ruszczyk, H. A. (2018) 'Urban gendered ‘We’ness of resilience' BLOG post https://sciforum.net/paper/view/conference/5946 from the Urban Resilience Reframing Conference in Barcelona 10-12 December 2018 organised by the Urban Resilience Research network and UNHabitat
2017
PhD thesis
Ruszczyk H.A. (2017) The everyday and events: understanding risk perceptions and resilience in urban Nepal. Doctor of Philosophy. Durham University. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12440/
United Nations publication
Ruszczyk, H. A. (2017) “Organizing for Urban Resilience … and, Possibly, for Transformation: TDCs in Bharatpur, Nepal” United Nations Research Institute for Social Development Think Piece Series Linking Resilience Thinking and Transformative Change, 21 August 2017
http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BE6B5/(httpNews)/B2E8DC091F1A2C80C1258183002A3A3A?OpenDocument
2015
Reports, newspaper articles
Ruszczyk, H. A. (2015) “Dispatch from Bharatpur, Nepal, Five Months after the Earthquake”, Natural Hazards Observer, September 2015 Vol XL (1) pg 15-17.
https://hazards.colorado.edu/article/dispatch-from-bharatpur-nepal-five-months-after-the-gorkha-earthquake
Ruszczyk, H. A. (2015) “Nepal Earthquake report, first hand experience from Nepal during the recent earthquake”, Durham University, Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience Newsletter Summer 2015, Vol 8, (1) pg 26-30.
Ruszczyk, H. A., Rigg J. and Oven K. J. (2015) “Earthquake experts pen first – person account from ground zero”, Straits Times April 28, 2015.
2014
Master of Arts thesis
Ruszczyk H.A. (2014) Local understandings of community resilience in earthquake prone Nepal. Master of Arts by Research. Durham University.
etheses.dur.ac.uk/9511/
Report
Ruszczyk, H. A. (2014) “Mitigating Earthquake Risk and Building Resilience in Nepal”, Durham University, Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience Magazine Summer 2014, Vol 1, (3) pg 30-33.
2001
UN Report
Ruszczyk H. A., Schubert I. and Stoyanovska A., (2001) “Local response to globalization: MESTA Region, Bulgaria, InFocus Programme on Boosting Employment through Small Enterprise Development, Job Creation and Enterprise Department, International Labour Office, Geneva.
https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_emp/---emp_ent/---ifp_seed/documents/publication/wcms_117721.pdf
1996
UN Report
Ruszczyk H.A. United Nations Development Programme Poland (1996) National Human Development Report, Part Five, Section XXIV Organising for local economic development in Plock Province pg 259-260.
