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Role in the University
I am currently a lecturer within the civil, construction and built environment subjects at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, UK. I am involved in students’ teaching and academic support through the delivery of modules and student supervision.
Background
I hold a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Nottingham, an MSc in Environmental Engineering from Queen’s University Belfast and a BEng (Hons) in Civil Engineering from Swansea University.
I have spent time working in industry for both a large civil engineering consultancy and a marine renewable energy developer. I have also worked in academia as a researcher and an experimental officer.
Academic Interests
I have a wide range of academic interests and am currently involved in teaching on the following modules:
Level 4
- Engineering Structures and Mathematics
- Professional Skills and Health and Safety
- Digital Surveying
Level 5
- Property Inspection and Re-use of Buildings
- Work-based Projects
- Water Resources and Environmental Modelling
Level 6
- Environmental Assessment, Management and Auditing
Research Interests
My main research interests are coastal structures and defences, nature-based solutions, waves, coastal geomorphology, flooding and marine renewables.
Publications
- Lazarus, E. D., Williams, H., & Goldstein, E. B. (2022). Volume estimation from planform characteristics of washover morphology. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(22), e2022GL100098.
- Gerald Müller, Hannah Williams, Kieran Atkinson, Rory Fleminger, Alexander Goodwin & Natasha Ann Harris (2022) The impulse wheel as hydropower converter for irrigation systems, ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering.
- Goldstein, E. B., Buscombe, D., Lazarus, E. D., Mohanty, S. D., Rafique, S. N., Anarde, K. A., Ashton, A.D., Beuzen, T., Castagno, K.A., Cohn, N., Conlin, M.P., Ellenson, A., Gillen, M., Hovenga, P.A., Over, J.R., R.V., Ratliff, K.M., Reeves, I.R.B., Sanborn, L.H., Straub, J.A., Taylor, L.A., Wallace, E.J., Warrick, J., Wernette, P., Williams, H.E. . (2021). Labeling poststorm coastal imagery for machine learning: Measurement of interrater agreement. Earth and Space Science, 8(9), e2021EA001896.
- Lazarus, E. D., Goldstein, E. B., Taylor, L. A., & Williams, H. E. (2021). Comparing patterns of hurricane washover into built and unbuilt environments. Earth’s Future, 9(3), e2020EF001818.
- Williams, H.E.; Briganti, R.; Romano, A.; Dodd, N. (2019). Experimental Analysis of Wave Overtopping: A New Small Scale Laboratory Dataset for the Assessment of Uncertainty for Smooth Sloped and Vertical Coastal Structures. J. Mar. Sci. Eng., 7, 217.
- Williams, H.E.; Briganti, R.; Pullen, T.; Dodd, N. (2016). The Uncertainty in the Prediction of the Distribution of Individual Wave Overtopping Volumes Using a Nonlinear Shallow Water Equation Solver. J. Coast. Res., 32, 946–953.
- Williams, H.E.; Briganti, R.; Pullen, T. (2014). The role of offshore boundary conditions in the uncertainty of numerical prediction of wave overtopping using nonlinear shallow water Equations. Coast. Eng., 89, 30–44.