Research Highlights
Scroll down to learn more about some of our ongoing and past projects that wouldn’t be possible without the generous support of the following organizations and agencies. Contact me at enjsutley@ku.edu if something you are looking for is not available below. Publications are also listed on Google Scholar.
Ongoing Projects
Behavioral Economic Analysis of Framing Effects on Residential Safe Room Demand
Graham, M., Gelino, B., Sutley, E.J., and Reed, D. (2025), Natural Hazards Review, DOI: 10.1061/NHREFO/NHENG-2461.
State-Of-The-Art Review on Reducing Residential Buildings' Risk to Tornado Hazards
Badmus, A. and Sutley, E.J. (2025), Frontiers in the Built Environment Wind Engineering and Science, 11: 1543800, DOI: 10.3389/fbuil.2025.1543800.
Estimating Long-Term Homeless K-12 Students After a Catastrophic Flood Disaster
Mazumder, R.K., Enderami, S.A., Rosenheim, N., Sutley, E.J., Stanley, M., and Meyer, M. (2023), Resilient Cities and Structures, 2(2), 82-92, DOI: 10.1016/j.rcns.2023.07.005.
ARISE Project
The Adaptive and Resilient Infrastructures driven by Social Equity (ARISE) project aims to build research capacity in Kansas through new discoveries and community engagement blended with education for statewide benefits.
Ongoing Projects
Rapid: Fundamental Behavior of Manufactured Homes Under Windstorms Through Full-Scale Experimentation and Numerical Modeling
Building on a multi-year collaboration between KU, UA and FIU, this NSF RAPID project kicks off in November 2025 with the intention to test three full-scale manufactured homes using FIU’s Wall of Wind, leveraging findings from five years of research supported by Florida’s Division of Emergency Management.
NSF-NFRF: Retreating from Risk (RFR): Decision-Supports for the Equitable Implementation of Retreat to Build Climate Resilience
With international collaborators in Canada, International and across the U.S., this project explores how managed retreat–the strategic relocation of housing and infrastructure from high-risk areas–can be used as a proactive strategy to reduce flood risks while enhancing community well-being.
HUD Center of Excellence for Capacity Building for Resilient Housing (CECREH
CECREH brings together a multidisciplinary team of researchers, practitioners and policy experts to develop data-driven, human-centered solutions that address the challenges vulnerable communities face in the wake of climate-driven disasters.
CAREER: Assessing the Role of Buildings and Organizations in Community Disaster Resilience
This project aims to transform how structural design levels of buildings are prioritized in communities through the consideration of social, economic and environmental factors. Functional recovery, modeling social and economic functional dependencies and the development of an employee allocation model are key areas of focus in the active Creative Extension supplement.