News

April 21, 2023

Movement Strategies is a member of Major Events International Ltd

Movement Strategies joins Major Events International

April 12, 2023

Dr Aoife Hunt receives a MBE

Dr Aoife Hunt has been appointed as an honorary Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in recognition of her services to the COVID-19 response.

February 23, 2023

Caulfield Racecourse Grandstand

Melbourne Racing Club has teamed up with Movement Strategies and architects Woods Bagot to deliver the new Caulfield Racecourse Grandstand

October 27, 2022

Dr Michael Kinsey joins Movement Strategies

Movement Strategies is delighted to announce Dr Michael Kinsey is joining the team on 27th October.

October 11, 2022

Movement Strategies is growing

As we continue to expand our pipeline of projects in the UK and across the globe, we have welcomed eight new members to our UK team in the past year.

September 28, 2022

Our founder will be speaking at the ISC Connect Hybrid Conference

The conference will be held in Queensland on 10-12 October 2022

September 27, 2022

Movement Strategies supports the development of the Public Realm Design Guide

We are proud to have supported the development of the third edition of the Public Realm Design Guide.

September 22, 2022

Dr Peter Thompson joins Movement Strategies

Movement Strategies is delighted to announce Dr Peter Thompson has recently joined the team.

September 8, 2022

Movement Strategies presents the keynote speech at the Society for Terrorism Research conference

Dr. Aoife Hunt presented the keynote speech at the Society for Terrorism Research (STR) 14th annual international conference at Coventry University.

August 11, 2022

A successful Birmingham 2022 comes to a close

Movement Strategies visited Birmingham City Centre and its sporting venues throughout the Games to see how the crowds were moving and to experience the buzz first hand.

Blogs

November 21, 2022

London Build Expo 2022: Trends for the future of the Build Environment

Movement Strategies attended the London Build 2022 Expo on the 15th and 16th November in London’s Olympia, which brought together professionals from across the construction sector. We reflect on some of the trends for the future of the Built Environment.

July 8, 2020

Five tips to help stadium operators be top of their game when re-opening their doors to spectators

What can operators be doing now to prepare to set their new capacity and to ensure fans can safely return to stadiums?

June 24, 2020

How agile, data-driven strategies will drive high street recovery

Steve Scott, Executive Leader of GHD Advisory UK, on how an "Agile Strategy" is needed to resuscitate our high streets and how Movement Insights will play a key role.

May 27, 2020

Reopening the high street: how crowd planning has been turned on its head

How do we get people back to the high street safely? It is not as simple as widening pathways and spacing queues by 2m. More maths is needed than you think. Dr Aoife Hunt considers the challenge local councils now face to adhere to government plans once lockdown eases.

May 1, 2020

Improving productivity in a time of social distancing

Social distancing reduces efficiency and productivity. Business and organisation leaders are looking for ways to recover and optimise productivity in these circumstances. Go beyond compliance to maximise safety and optimise productivity. Simon Ancliffe talks about solutions to the current challenges faced by businesses.

April 14, 2020

‘Easter Egg’ Emergencies

The Covid-19 crisis poses many challenges. These occur at individual, national and international levels, and on numerous fronts. Here we discuss the different types of local emergencies that might occur and how responding to them becomes all the more challenging during a time of a national or international crisis.

September 23, 2019

Large crowds and Zone Ex: safety and security considerations in the last mile

Dr Aoife Hunt presented to the SGSA conference on 4th September on crowd movement research carried out at Wembley Stadium and also some of the latest security considerations, including the impact of Hostile Vehicle Mitigation (HVM), both with respect to Zone Ex. The presentation is summarised here.

September 17, 2019

Understanding evacuation from wildfires

Over the last year, Movement Strategies has made an increased effort to derive and share research findings from its ongoing innovative practice. In addition, we have collaborated with research partners to conduct dedicated research activities.

September 11, 2019

Movement Insights – our top three learnings so far…

Movement Insights ingests a range of movement, spend and social data-sets to give a clear picture of how a city, retailer or other physical space is performing and where the most effective interventions and campaigns might be to improve performance.

July 8, 2019

The £183m fine imposed by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on British Airways has been announced today

2019 was looking likely as the year in which the ICO would flex its muscles - the £500k fine imposed on Facebook now looks pretty paltry, especially given the relative scale of Facebook and BA (Facebook’s revenues are about 4 times that of BA’s, which were £12.2Bn in 2017).

Research

October 1, 2022

Evacuation modelling for bushfire: the WUI-NITY simulation platform

Dr Steve Gwynne, alongside co-authors from Lund University and Imperial College, recently published a paper about Evacuation modelling for bushfire: the WUI-NITY simulation platform

July 16, 2021

A Framework for Intelligent Fire Detection and Evacuation System

Dr Steve Gwynne, alongside co-authors, recently published a paper regarding A Framework for Intelligent Fire Detection and Evacuation System

May 1, 2021

The Response of Sleeping Adults to Smoke Alarm Signals in the Evacuation Decision Model

Dr Steve Gwynne, alongside co-authors from Massey University and OFR Consultants, recently published a paper about The Response of Sleeping Adults to Smoke Alarm Signals in the Evacuation Decision Model

April 21, 2021

Examining Evacuee Response to Emergency Communications with Agent-Based Simulations, Sustainability

Dr Steve Gwynne, alongside co-authors, recently published a paper on Examining Evacuee Response to Emergency Communications with Agent-Based Simulations, Sustainability

February 1, 2021

Case studies of large outdoor fires involving evacuations

Dr Steve Gwynne, alongside co-authors from various Universities, have recently published a paper on large outdoor fires involving evacuations

January 27, 2021

The simulation of wildland-urban interface fire evacuation: The WUI-NITY platform

Dr. Steve Gwynne, alongside colleagues at Lund University, National Research Council Canada, Imperial College London, Fire Protection Research Foundation and RMIT University have recently published a paper on "The simulation of wildland-urban interface fire evacuation: The WUI-NITY platform" in Safety Science.

January 22, 2021

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