Dr Sarah Percival
School of Biological and Environmental Sciences
Faculty of Science
Email: S.E.Percival@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 231 2607
I am a Senior Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University in hazards, risk, vulnerability and resilience, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team (School of Biological and Environmental Sciences) to help deliver the BSc (Hons) Geography, BSc (Hons) Environmental Science, BSc (Hons) Climate and Environment Sciences and MSc Climate Change and Sustainability programmes. My teaching mainly resides in hazards, particularly understanding and assessing risk, vulnerability and resilience of different hazards. I also teach stakeholder analysis and engagement, qualitative methods, GIS, and research/project communication practices. I am a module leader for the first-year core module Hazards and second year core module International Environments. I also supervise and manage MSc, MPhil and PhD students, along with Post Doctoral researchers.
Research - I specialise in the assessment and communication of flood disaster vulnerability, resilience at risk at micro-levels and secured funding from Historic England (HE), Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), Ordnance Survey, Royal Geographic Society, Manchester Geographical Society and LJMU as a PI and Co-I. Of note, I have secured funding to create a Flood Resilience Hub at LJMU, lead research on building resilience to coastal flooding to decommissioning NDA assets, been commissioned by HE to lead research on Surface Water Flood Resilience of traditional buildings in England. I also work extensively with the National Flood Forum (NFF) including leading a funded PhD research project with the NFF on the resilience of community flood groups. I am also an invited member of the Flood Prevention All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG).
Professional Activities -
I work and consulted an array of flood and sustainability stakeholders over the years including members from The Alan Turing Institute, Environment Agency, DEFRA, National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL), NDA, local councils, Cabinet Office, different Trusts, CIWEM, FloodRe, HE, Natural England, Flood Re, NFF and OneDay Ltd.
I am also currently the External Examiner for the University of Portsmouth's MSc on Crisis and Disaster Management and between 2020-2024 was the Vice Chair for Coastal and Marine Royal Geographic Society Research Group.
Degrees
2015, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom, Flood Risk in Geoinformatics (PhD)
2005, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, Science of Natural Hazards (MSc by Research)
2003, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom, Environmental Science BSc (Hons)
Academic appointments
Lecturer Coastal Resilience, School of natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, 2018 - present
Senior Research Associate, School of Civil Engineering and Surveying, University of Portsmouth, 2015 - 2018
Other
Percival S. 2025. Call for Evidence - Flooding Resilience in England House of Commons EAC. Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Percival S. 2021. Local factors in managing flood and coastal erosion risk and property flood resilience: summary of responses DEFRA . Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Journal article
Laidlaw S, Percival S. 2024. Flood resilience: A review of evolving definitions Natural Hazards, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Gerono C, Percival S. 2023. A Street Level Flood Risk Assessment of Morpeth, UK Routes: The Journal for Student Geographers, 3 :159-177 Publisher Url Public Url
Percival S, Gaterell M, Hutchinson D. 2020. Effective Flood Risk Visualisation Natural Hazards, 104 :375-396 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Percival S, Teeuw R. 2019. A Methodology for UK Urban Micro Scale Coastal Flood Vulnerability and Risk Assessment and Mapping Natural Hazards, 97 :355-377 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Percival S, Gaterell M, Teeuw R. Urban neighbourhood flood vulnerability and risk assessments at different diurnal levels Journal of Flood Risk Management, 12 :e12466-e12466 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Percival S, Laidlaw S. The Resilience of Community Led Flood Groups in the North West North West Geography, Public Url
Conference publication
Percival S, Teeuw R. Climate Change & Solent Coastal Vulnerability: Mapping Impacts on atrisk Assets and Vulnerable Sectors of Society Proceedings of GIS Research in UK: GISRUK2011
Thesis/Dissertation
Percival S. Portsmouth Coastal Flood Vulnerability and Risk: Assessment and Mapping of Impacts at Microscale Teeuw R.
Research Grants Awarded:
Duration of research project: 27 months, Grant value (£): 168,425.37, Historic England, The Resilience of Traditionally Constructed Buildings to Flooding, PI. 2025
Duration of research project: 3 years, Grant value (£): £82,158.00, HITS Faculty PhD Scholarship, LJMU, Transforming Retrofit Policy in the UK’s Private Rented Sector: An Evidence-Based Approach to Improvement, Co-I. 2025
Duration of research project: 3 Days, Grant value (£): 1360.99, Historic England, Project Design - The Resilience of Traditionally Constructed Buildings to Flooding, PI. 2025
Duration of research project: 3 years, Grant value (£): 87,532.57, National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) - Nuclear Decommissioning Authority PhD Bursary 2024, Dr Monica McCard (LJMU), Dr Kostas Kiriakoulakis (LJMU), Dr Joshua Griffiths (NNL), Prof Nick Smith (NNL), Building resilience to coastal flooding resulting from climatic changes: the application to decommissioning NDA assets, PI. 2024
Duration of research project: 3 years, Grant value (£): 74616.00, School of Biological and Environmental Sciences PhD Scholarship, Dr Patrick Byrne Ms Tracey Garrett, Establishing resilient community flood groups to reduce flood impacts in the UK, PI. 2024
Duration of research project: 2 years, Grant value (£): 3,828, Liverpool John Moores University, David Evans, Ian Jenkinson & Kostas Kiriakoulakis, Geographic Information System (GIS) Based Manufacturing Productivity Growth Tool, Co-I. 2023
Duration of research project: Week, Grant value (£): 794.00, Liverpool John Moores University, Building Resilience in Flood Action Groups, PI. 2023
Duration of research project: 3 months, Grant value (£): 9999.59, Historic England, Consultancy for Flood Resilience of Traditional Buildings, PI. 2023
Duration of research project: 1 year, Grant value (£): 9998.90, Liverpool John Moores University - Seed Corn Funding, Flood Resilience Hub, PI. 2022
Duration of research project: 4 months, Grant value (£): £4897.70, Liverpool John Moores University, Flood Action Group Resilience, PI. 2022
Duration of research project: 4 days, Grant value (£): £500.00, Royal Geographical Society with IBG, Dr Emma Mckinley, Cardiff University & Dr Rebecca Shellock, Australian National University, Coastal and Marine Research Group: Coastal Experiences through Diverse Geographies. RGS-IBG 2022 Activity, Co-I. 2021
Duration of research project: 12 months, Grant value (£): 1000.00, Manchester Geographical Society - Research Fund 2020, Flood Action Group Resilience, PI. 2020
Duration of research project: 2 years, Grant value (£): 10000.00, Royal Geographical Society - Environment and Sustainability Research Grants, UK Urban Flood Risk Communication, PI. 2017
Duration of research project: 5 years, Grant value (£): 30000, Ordnance Survey PhD Grant, Portsmouth Coastal Flood Vulnerability and Risk: Assessment and Mapping of Impacts at Microscale. 2009
Other Professional Activity:
Appointed External Examiner, https://www.port.ac.uk/study/courses/postgraduate-taught/msc-crisis-and-disaster-management. 2024
Conference presentation:
Workshop, Telford International Centre, Flood & Coast 2023, Flood Action Groups: Building Resilience in Flood Action Groups. 2023
Author and Facilitator, Royal Geographic Society, London (Virtual), RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2021, Geographies across boundaries: Connecting the spaces between us. 2021
Oral presentation, Royal Geographic Society, London (Virtually), RGS-IGB Postgraduate Forum Mid-Term Conference 2021, Keynote - Flood Vulnerability and Risk Analysis at Micro Levels. 2021
Award:
Liverpool John Moores University, Faculty of Science Teaching Awards (FOSTAs) 2023. 2022
Flood Expo, Excellence in Innovation Award 2022, https://www.thefloodexpo.co.uk/whats-on/excellence-innovation-awards. 2022
Other invited event:
Chichester College, West Sussex, Dr. Sarah Percival is doing a talk about her journey from choosing to go to university, all the way to her current role as Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University in Geography (specialising in coastal resilience). She will discuss some of the choices that she made in her career, and how it has developed as time has gone on., Stem Career Talk. 2021
External committees:
RGS-IGB, Vice Chair, RGS-IGB Coastal and Marine Research Group, https://coastalmarineresearchgroup.wordpress.com/. 2020