The cost of humanitarian action is increasing year-on-year, and so finding ways to address the underlying causes of disasters and conflict is key to supporting efforts to meet humanitarian need with the limited funding, time, and resources the sector has access to. In line with these concerns, the rise of “resilience humanitarianism” and localisation agendas that focus on community resilience building have seen a move away from traditional response-based humanitarian action towards a longer-term approach.

This talk introduced QSAND to a new audience of Loughborough community members through the Pint of Science programme (https://pintofscience.co.uk/), an annual science festival that brings researchers together with people around the world to discuss their work. QSAND Programme Lead George Foden discussed QSAND’s work in Malawi in 2023, and ran a short workshop to introduce the audience to the way that QSAND works and what it can be used for.