by Manon Gijbels | Jun 29, 2023 | News
Prof. Dr. John Drury and his team have been commissioned by Live Nation to investigate how post-COVID behavioural change can be explained, and what an event organizer can do to encourage self-reliant and self-correcting behaviour among eventgoers. In a webinar...
by Manon Gijbels | Jun 27, 2023 | News
Milad Haghani, Senior Lecturer and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering of UNSW Sydney, is, together with 19 other professionals, the author of the paper “Contemporary challenges in crowd safety research and...
by Manon Gijbels | Jun 14, 2023 | News
The first Crowd Safety Summit Australia, which took place on May 22 & 23 2023 at UNSW in Sydney, resulted in an impressive scientific paper, published in Safety Science. The paper explains how a “Swiss Cheese Model” approach to crowd safety is an appropriate way...
by Manon Gijbels | May 4, 2023 | News
Scientists Claudio Feliciani, Alessandro Corbetta, Milad Haghani and Katsuhiro Nishinari executed an analysis on trends in crowd accidents. This analysis is based on a database of crowd accidents that was developed for the period of 1900-2019 through an investigation...
by Manon Gijbels | Apr 26, 2023 | News
In many Western countries, experts are concerned about the increase in unruly behaviour among eventgoers and crowds at sporting events. While the event industry still has to recover from the enormous impact of COVID-19, crowd behaviour presents new challenges. What...
by Manon Gijbels | Apr 21, 2023 | News
ESI commits itself to sharing knowledge and learning from past incidents. In this spirit, we held a webinar this month analyzing the events that took place at the Astroworld Festival in Houston, Texas, on November 9, 2021. The webinar was built around several clips...
