Professor Nicholas Pidgeon

Professor of Environmental Psychology, Director of the Understanding Risk Research Group

: PidgeonN@cardiff.ac.uk
: +44 29208 74567

: Media commentator
: Available for postgraduate supervision

I am Professor of Environmental Psychology and Risk, and Director of the Understanding Risk Research Group based within the School and University.

I work on risk assessment, risk perception and communication, public engagement with risk and technology, and valuation of ecosystem services. My research is interdisciplinary at the interface of social psychology, environmental sciences and human geography, and science and technology studies.

I am currently researching public responses to energy system change, climate change risks, emerging technologies including greenhouse gas removal, and psychosocial approaches to energy use in everyday life. I am a Co-Investigator on several major funded initiatives including FLEXIS (https://www.flexis.wales), The Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation (http://lc3m.org), The UK Energy Research Centre (https://ukerc.ac.uk) and the Active Building Centre (https://www.activebuildingcentre.com ).

I have led numerous policy-oriented projects on issues of public responses to environmental and technological risk and on ‘science in society’ for UK Government Departments, the Research Councils, the Royal Society, and Charities. I am currently a member of the Science Advisory Council of the UK Department of Transport (https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/dft-science-advisory-council) and a member of the NERC/Met Office Climate Resilience research programme steering committee.

I was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the British Science Association in 2011, and an MBE in the 2014 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to climate change awareness and energy security policy. I am currently a Council Member of the International Society for Risk Analysis.

In 2006 I chaired a Parliamentary inquiry whose report 'Is a Cross-Party Consensus on Climate Change Possible - or Desirable?' (http://orca.cf.ac.uk/48170/) recommended the setting up of the UK Climate Change Committee, an institutional innovation subsequently enacted in the 2008 Climate Change Act.

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2024

Contzen, N. et al. 2024. Public opinion about solar radiation management: A cross-cultural study in 20 countries around the world. Climatic Change 177(4), article number: 65. (10.1007/s10584-024-03708-3)
Groves, C., Henwood, K., Thomas, G., Roberts, E., Shirani, F. and Pidgeon, N. 2024. Where is ‘the local’ in localization? Exploring socio-technical and spatial visions of energy system decarbonization in South Wales. Energy Research and Social Science 107, article number: 103330. (10.1016/j.erss.2023.103330)

2023

Becker, S., Demski, C., Smith, W. and Pidgeon, N. 2023. Public perceptions of heat decarbonization in Great Britain. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment 12(6), article number: e492. (10.1002/wene.492)
Thomas, G., Pidgeon, N. and Henwood, K. 2023. Hydrogen, a less disruptive pathway for domestic heat? Exploratory findings from public perceptions research. Cleaner Production Letters 5, article number: 100047. (10.1016/j.clpl.2023.100047)
Roberts, E., Groves, C., Thomas, G., Shirani, F., Cherry, C., Pidgeon, N. and Henwood, K. 2023. Attuning to ambiguous atmospheres: currents of air, discourse and time in a steel town. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (10.1111/tran.12631)
Carr-Whitworth, R. et al. 2023. Delivering net zero in the UK: twelve conditions for success. Environmental Research Letters 18(7), article number: 74041. (10.1088/1748-9326/ace199)
Böhm, G. et al. 2023. Emotional reactions to climate change: a comparison across France, Germany, Norway, and the United Kingdom. Frontiers in Psychology 14, article number: 1139133. (10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1139133)
O'Sullivan, K., Shirani, F., Hale, R., Pidgeon, N. and Henwood, K. 2023. Identity, place narrative and biophilic urban development: Connecting the past, present and future for sustainable liveable cities. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities 5, article number: 1139029. (10.3389/frsc.2023.1139029)
Groves, C., Henwood, K., Pidgeon, N., Cherry, C., Roberts, E., Shirani, F. and Thomas, G. 2023. Putting visions in their place: Responsible research and innovation for energy system decarbonization. Journal of Responsible Innovation 10(1), article number: 2149954. (10.1080/23299460.2022.2149954)
Henwood, K., Pidgeon, N., Shirani, F., O'Sullivan, K. and Hale, R. 2023. Living well in low carbon homes project report. Project Report. Self-publish.
Smith, H., Henwood, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2023. Will industrial decarbonisation produce resilient communities?. Project Report. Cardiff: Cardiff University.

2022

Shirani, F., O'Sullivan, K., Hale, R., Pidgeon, N. and Henwood, K. 2022. From active houses to active homes: understanding resident experiences of transformational design and social innovation. Energies 15(19), article number: 7441. (10.3390/en15197441)
Shirani, F., O'Sullivan, K., Hale, R., Pidgeon, N. and Henwood, K. 2022. Transformational innovation in home energy: How developers imagine and engage with future residents of low carbon homes in the United Kingdom. Energy Research and Social Science 91, article number: 102743.
Shirani, F., O’Sullivan, K., Henwood, K., Hale, R. and Pidgeon, N. 2022. Living in an active home: household dynamics and unintended consequences. Buildings and Cities 3(1), pp. 589–604. (10.5334/bc.216)
Cox, E., Spence, E. and Pidgeon, N. 2022. Deliberating enhanced weathering: public frames, iconic ecosystems, and the governance of carbon removal at scale. Public Understanding of Science 31(8), pp. 960-977. (10.1177/0963662522111219)
Cox, E., Pidgeon, N. and Spence, E. 2022. But they told us it was safe! Carbon dioxide removal, fracking, and ripple effects in risk perceptions. Risk Analysis 42(7), pp. 1472-1487. (10.1111/risa.13717)
Thomas, M., Roberts, E., Pidgeon, N. and Henwood, K. 2022. 'This funny place': uncovering the ambiguity of saltmarshes using a multimodal approach. People and Nature 4(3), pp. 804-815. (10.1002/pan3.10318)
Thomas, G., Cherry, C., Groves, C., Henwood, K., Pidgeon, N. and Roberts, E. 2022. “It’s not a very certain future”: Emotion and infrastructure change in an industrial town. Geoforum 132, pp. 81-91. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.04.003)
Cherry, C., Thomas, G., Groves, C., Roberts, E., Shirani, F., Henwood, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2022. A personas-based approach to deliberating local decarbonisation scenarios: findings and methodological insights. Energy Research and Social Science 87, article number: 102455. (10.1016/j.erss.2021.102455)
O'Sullivan, K., Shirani, F., Pidgeon, N. and Henwood, K. 2022. Why active buildings? Realising the potentials of energy networked homes: a social scientific perspective. In: Vahidinasab, V. and Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo, . eds. Active Building Energy Systems. Green Energy and Technology, pp. 25-49., (10.1007/978-3-030-79742-3_2)
O'Sullivan, K., Shirani, F., Pidgeon, N. and Henwood, K. 2022. Why active buildings? Realising the potentials of energy networked homes: a social scientific perspective. In: Vahidinasab, V. and Mohammadi-Ivatloo, B. eds. Active Building Energy Systems Operation and Control. Springer, pp. 25-49., (10.1007/978-3-030-79742-3)
Steentjes, K., McCamley, M., Berman, J. and Pidgeon, N. 2022. RESIL RISK Northern Ireland: public perceptions of climate risks and adaptation in Northern Ireland. Cardiff University.

2021

Harthorn, B. H., Satterfield, T. and Pidgeon, N. 2021. Nanotoxicology and risk perception among public and elite groups. In: Lead, J. R., Doak, S. H. and Clift, M. J. D. eds. Nanotoxicology in Humans and the Environment. Molecular and Integrative Toxicology Springer, Cham, pp. 193-228., (10.1007/978-3-030-79808-6_7)
Michie, S., West, R., Pidgeon, N., Reicher, S., Amlôt, R. and Bear, L. 2021. Staying 'Covid safe': Proposals for embedding behaviours that protect against Covid-19 transmission in the UK. British Journal of Health Psychology 26(4), pp. 1238-1257. (10.1111/bjhp.12557)
Roberts, E., Thomas, M., Pidgeon, N. and Henwood, K. 2021. Valuing nature for wellbeing: narratives of socio-ecological change in dynamic intertidal landscapes. Environmental Values 30(4), pp. 501-523. (10.3197/096327120X15916910310635)
Groves, C., Henwood, K., Pidgeon, N., Cherry, C., Roberts, E., Shirani, F. and Thomas, G. 2021. The future is flexible? Exploring expert visions of energy system decarbonisation. Futures 130, article number: 102753. (10.1016/j.futures.2021.102753)
Spence, E., Cox, E. and Pidgeon, N. 2021. Exploring cross-national public support for the use of enhanced weathering as a land-based carbon dioxide removal strategy. Climatic Change 165, article number: 23. (10.1007/s10584-021-03050-y)
Shirani, F., Groves, C., Henwood, K., Roberts, E., Thomas, G., Cherry, C. and Pidgeon, N. 2021. ‘Who cares about valley people?’ – lived experiences of energy vulnerability in the South Wales valleys. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice 29(1), pp. 103-120. (10.1332/175982720X16074511160827)
Thomas, M., Roberts, E., Pidgeon, N. and Henwood, K. 2021. Using photographs in coastal research and engagement: reflections on two case studies. In: Gustavsson, M. et al. eds. Researching People and the Sea: Methodologies and Traditions. Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 181-208.
Pidgeon, N. 2021. Engaging publics about environmental and technology risks: frames, values and deliberation. Journal of Risk Research 24(1), pp. 28-46. (10.1080/13669877.2020.1749118)
Groves, C., Shirani, F., Pidgeon, N., Cherry, C., Thomas, G., Roberts, E. and Henwood, K. 2021. A missing link? Capabilities, the ethics of care, and the relational context of energy justice. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 22(2), pp. 249-269. (10.1080/19452829.2021.1887105)
Shirani, F., Groves, C., Henwood, K., Pidgeon, N., Roberts, E. and Thomas, G. 2021. Mine water heating in Caerau: Thoughts from local residents. 2020 Report. Project Report. FLEXIS.
Pidgeon, N., Groves, C., Cherry, C., Thomas, G., Shirani, F. and Henwood, K. 2021. ‘A little self-sufficient town close to the beach’: local energy system transformation through the lens of place and public things. In: Webb, J., Wade, F. and Tingey, M. eds. Research Handbook on Energy and Society. Edward Elgar, pp. 299-316.

2020

Groves, C., Shirani, F., Pidgeon, N., Cherry, C., Thomas, G., Roberts, E. and Henwood, K. 2020. ‘The bills are a brick wall’: narratives of energy vulnerability, poverty and adaptation in South Wales. Energy Research and Social Science 70, article number: 101777. (10.1016/j.erss.2020.101777)
O'Sullivan, K., Henwood, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2020. Active buildings in the changing policy landscape: conceptual challenges and social scientific perspectives. Project Report. Cardiff University.
Shirani, F., Groves, C., Henwood, K., Pidgeon, N. and Roberts, E. 2020. 'I'm the smart meter': Perceptions and experiences of smart technology amongst vulnerable consumers.. Energy Policy 144, article number: 111637. (10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111637)
Thomas, G., Demski, C. and Pidgeon, N. 2020. Energy justice discourses in citizen deliberations on systems flexibility in the United Kingdom: Vulnerability, compensation and empowerment. Energy Research and Social Science 66, article number: 101494. (10.1016/j.erss.2020.101494)
Cox, E., Spence, E. and Pidgeon, N. 2020. Public perceptions of carbon dioxide removal in the United States and the United Kingdom. Nature Climate Change 10, pp. 744-749. (10.1038/s41558-020-0823-z)
Beerling, D. J. et al. 2020. Potential for large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands. Nature 583, pp. 242-248. (10.1038/s41586-020-2448-9)
Shirani, F., Groves, C., Henwood, K., Pidgeon, N. and Roberts, E. 2020. What counts as success? Wider implications of achieving planning permission in a low-impact ecovillage. Environmental Values 29(3), pp. 339-359. (10.3197/096327119X15579936382536)
Cox, E., Spence, E. and Pidgeon, N. 2020. Incumbency, trust and the Monsanto effect: stakeholder discourses on greenhouse gas removal. Environmental Values 29(2), pp. 197-220. (10.3197/096327119X15678473650947)
Steentjes, K., Demski, C., Seabrook, A., Corner, A. and Pidgeon, N. 2020. British public perceptions of climate risk, adaptation options and resilience (RESiL RISK): Topline findings of a GB survey conducted in October 2019. Project Report. Cardiff: Cardiff University.

2019

Thomas, G., Demski, C. and Pidgeon, N. 2019. Deliberating the social acceptability of energy storage in the UK. Energy Policy 133, article number: 110908. (10.1016/j.enpol.2019.110908)
Bertoldo, R. et al. 2019. Scientific truth or debate: On the link between perceived scientific consensus and belief in anthropogenic climate change. Public Understanding of Science 28(7), pp. 778-796. (10.1177/0963662519865448)
Becker, S., Demski, C., Evensen, D. and Pidgeon, N. 2019. Of profits, transparency, and responsibility: public views on financing energy system change in Great Britain. Energy Research and Social Science 55, pp. 236-246. (10.1016/j.erss.2019.05.013)
Pidgeon, N. 2019. Observing the English weather – a personal journey from safety I to IV,. In: Le Coze, J. ed. Safety Science Research: Evolution, Challenges and New Directions. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press
Osman, M., Ayton, P., Bouder, F., Pidgeon, N. and Lofstedt, R. 2019. Evidence based uncertainty: what is needed now?. Journal of Risk Research 24(5), pp. 622-628. (10.1080/13669877.2019.1646316)
Harthorn, B. H., Halcomb, L., Partridge, T., Thomas, M., Enders, C. and Pidgeon, N. 2019. Health risk perception and shale development in the UK and US. Health, Risk and Society 21(2), pp. 35-56. (10.1080/13698575.2019.1601685)
Demski, C., Thomas, G., Becker, S., Evensen, D. and Pidgeon, N. 2019. Acceptance of energy transitions and policies: Public conceptualisations of energy as a need and basic right in the United Kingdom. Energy Research and Social Science 48, pp. 33-45. (10.1016/j.erss.2018.09.018)
Doran, R., Böhm, G., Pfister, H., Steentjes, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2019. Consequence evaluations and moral concerns about climate change: insights from nationally representative surveys across four European countries. Journal of Risk Research 22(5), pp. 610-626. (10.1080/13669877.2018.1473468)
Groves, C., Henwood, K., Pidgeon, N., Shirani, F., Cherry, C. and Thomas, G. 2019. Better energy futures: Developing a framework for addressing fuel poverty poverty. Project Report. Cardiff: Cardiff University.

2018

Thomas, G., Pidgeon, N. and Roberts, E. 2018. Ambivalence, naturalness and normality in public perceptions of carbon capture and storage in biomass, fossil energy, and industrial applications in the United Kingdom. Energy Research and Social Science 46, pp. 1-9. (10.1016/j.erss.2018.06.007)
Cherry, C., Scott, K., Barrett, J. and Pidgeon, N. 2018. Public acceptance of resource-efficiency strategies to mitigate climate change. Nature Climate Change 8, pp. 1007-1012. (10.1038/s41558-018-0298-3)
Peake, L., Cherry, C., Steentjes, K., Scott, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2018. By popular demand: what people want from a resource efficient economy. London: Green Alliance. Available at: https://www.green-alliance.org.uk/by_popular_demand.php
Spence, E., Pidgeon, N. and Pearson, P. 2018. UK public perceptions of ocean acidification - the importance of place and environmental identity. Marine Policy 97, pp. 287-293. (10.1016/j.marpol.2018.04.006)
Thomas, M., Partridge, T., Pidgeon, N., Herr Harthorn, B., Demski, C. and Hasell, A. 2018. Using role play to explore energy perceptions in the United States and United Kingdom. Energy Research and Social Science 45, pp. 363-373. (10.1016/j.erss.2018.06.026)
Thomas, M., Pidgeon, N. and Bradshaw, M. 2018. Shale development in the US and Canada: a review of engagement practice. The Extractive Industries and Society 5(4), pp. 557-569. (10.1016/j.exis.2018.07.011)
Brügger, A. and Pidgeon, N. 2018. Spatial framing, existing associations, and climate change. Environmental Values 27(5), pp. 559-584. (10.3197/096327118X15321668325966)
Cherry, C. and Pidgeon, N. 2018. Is sharing the solution? Exploring public acceptability of the sharing economy. Journal of Cleaner Production 195, pp. 939-948. (10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.05.278)
Partridge, T., Thomas, M., Pidgeon, N. and Harthorn, B. H. 2018. Urgency in energy justice: Contestation and time in prospective shale extraction in the United States and United Kingdom. Energy Research and Social Science 42, pp. 138-146. (10.1016/j.erss.2018.03.018)
Evensen, D., Demski, C., Becker, S. and Pidgeon, N. 2018. The relationship between justice and acceptance of energy transition costs in the UK. Applied Energy 222, pp. 451-459. (10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.03.165)
Cherry, C. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2018. Why is ownership an issue? Exploring factors that determine public acceptance of product-service systems. Sustainability 10(7), article number: 2289. (10.3390/su10072289)
Cox, E., Pidgeon, N., Spence, E. and Thomas, G. 2018. Blurred lines: the ethics and policy of Greenhouse Gas Removal at scale. Frontiers in Environmental Science 6, article number: 38. (10.3389/fenvs.2018.00038)
Barrett, J., Cooper, T., Hammond, G. P. and Pidgeon, N. 2018. Industrial energy, materials and products: UK decarbonisation challenges and opportunities. Applied Thermal Engineering 136, pp. 643-656. (10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2018.03.049)
MacGillivray, B. H. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2018. Risk and rationality: the “frame problem” revisited, from the laboratory to the public sphere. In: Marsden, T. K. ed. The SAGE Handbook of Nature. SAGE
Shirani, F., Groves, C., Cherry, C., Thomas, G., Henwood, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2018. UK smart living demonstrator (better energy futures) – research report. Cardiff: Cardiff University.

2017

Thomas, G., Groves, C., Henwood, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2017. Texturing waste: attachment and identity in every-day consumption and waste practices. Environmental Values 26(6), pp. 733-755., article number: 23. (10.3197/096327117X15046905490362)
Demski, C., Evensen, D., Pidgeon, N. and Spence, A. 2017. Public prioritisation of energy affordability in the UK. Energy Policy 110, pp. 404-409. (10.1016/j.enpol.2017.08.044)
Shirani, F., Groves, C., Parkhill, K., Butler, C., Henwood, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2017. Critical moments? Life transitions and energy biographies. Geoforum 86, pp. 86-92. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.09.006)
Groves, C., Henwood, K., Shirani, F., Thomas, G. and Pidgeon, N. 2017. Why mundane energy use matters: Energy biographies, attachment and identity. Energy Research and Social Science 30, pp. 71-81. (10.1016/j.erss.2017.06.016)
Pidgeon, N., Thomas, M., Partridge, T., Evensen, D. and Harthorn, B. 2017. Hydraulic fracturing: a risk for environment, energy security and affordability?. In: Kasperson, R. ed. Risk Conundrums: Solving Unsolvable Problems. Routledge, pp. 177-188.
Thomas, M. et al. 2017. Public perceptions of hydraulic fracturing for shale gas and oil in the United States and Canada. WIRES Climate Change 8(3), pp. e450. (10.1002/wcc.450)
Thomas, M., Partridge, T., Herr Harthorn, B. and Pidgeon, N. 2017. Deliberating the perceived risks, benefits and societal implications of shale gas and oil extraction by hydraulic fracturing in the US and UK. Nature Energy 2, article number: 17054. (10.1038/nenergy.2017.54)
Pidgeon, N. and Spence, E. 2017. Perceptions of enhanced weathering as a biological negative emissions option. Biology Letters 13(4), article number: 20170024. (10.1098/rsbl.2017.0024)
Demski, C., Pidgeon, N. and Spence, A. 2017. Effects of exemplar scenarios on public preferences for energy futures using the my2050 scenario-building tool. Nature Energy 2(4), article number: 17027. (10.1038/nenergy.2017.27)
Demski, C., Capstick, S., Pidgeon, N., Sposato, R. G. and Spence, A. 2017. Experience of extreme weather affects climate change mitigation and adaptation responses. Climatic Change 140(2), pp. 149-164. (10.1007/s10584-016-1837-4)
Cherry, C., Hopfe, C., MacGillivray, B. H. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2017. Homes as machines: Exploring expert and public imaginaries of low carbon housing futures in the United Kingdom. Energy Research and Social Science 23, pp. 36-45. (10.1016/j.erss.2016.10.011)
Partridge, T., Thomas, M., Harthorn, B. H., Pidgeon, N., Hasell, A., Stevenson, L. and Enders, C. 2017. Seeing futures now: Emergent US and UK views on shale development, climate change and energy systems. Global Environmental Change 42, pp. 1-12. (10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.11.002)
Steentjes, K. et al. 2017. European Perceptions of Climate Change (EPCC): Topline findings of a survey conducted in four European countries in 2016. Project Report. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
Corner, A. J. et al. 2017. European Perceptions of Climate Change (EPCC): six recommendations for public engagement. Project Report. Oxford: Climate Outreach.

2016

McLaren, D., Parkhill, K. A., Corner, A. J., Vaughan, N. E. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2016. Public conceptions of justice in climate engineering: Evidence from secondary analysis of public deliberation. Global Environmental Change 41, pp. 64-73. (10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.09.002)
Capstick, S. B., Pidgeon, N. F., Corner, A. J., Spence, E. M. and Pearson, P. N. 2016. Public understanding in Great Britain of ocean acidification. Nature Climate Change 6, pp. 763-767. (10.1038/nclimate3005)
Shirani, F., Groves, C., Butler, C., Parkhill, K., Henwood, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2016. Living in the future: environmental concerns, parenting, and low-impact lifestyles. In: Ansell, N., Klocker, N. and Skelton, T. eds. Geographies of Global Issues: Change and Threat., Vol. 8. Geographies of Children and Young People Singapore: Springer, pp. 1-20., (10.1007/978-981-4585-95-8_4-1)
Shirani, F., Parkhill, K., Butler, C., Groves, C., Pidgeon, N. and Henwood, K. 2016. Asking about the future: methodological insights from energy biographies. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 19(4), pp. 429-444. (10.1080/13645579.2015.1029208)
Groves, C., Henwood, K., Shirani, F., Butler, C., Parkhill, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2016. Invested in unsustainability? On the psychosocial patterning of engagement in practices. Environmental Values 25(3), pp. 309-328. (10.3197/096327116X14598445991466)
Groves, C., Henwood, K., Shirani, F., Butler, C., Parkhill, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2016. Energy biographies: narrative genres, lifecourse transitions and practice change. Science, Technology, and Human Values 41(3), pp. 483-508. (10.1177/0162243915609116)
Groves, C., Henwood, K., Shirani, F., Butler, C., Parkhill, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2016. The grit in the oyster: using energy biographies to question socio-technical imaginaries of 'smartness'. Journal of Responsible Innovation 3(1), pp. 4-25. (10.1080/23299460.2016.1178897)
Henwood, K., Pidgeon, N. F., Groves, C., Shirani, F., Butler, C. and Parkhill, K. 2016. Energy Biographies Research Report. Project Report. Cardiff: .Energy Biographies.
Thomas, M. J., Pidgeon, N. F., Evensen, D. T. N., Partridge, T., Hasell, A., Enders, C. and Herr Harthorn, B. 2016. Public perceptions of shale gas operations in the USA and Canada: a review of evidence. Project Report. [Online]. M4ShaleGas Consortium. Available at: http://m4shalegas.eu/reportsp4.html
Arnold, A. et al. 2016. Socio-political profiles to inform a cross-national survey in France, Germany, Norway and the UK.. Project Report. [Online]. Oxford: Climate Outreach. Available at: http://climateoutreach.org/resources/european-perceptions

2015

Butler, C., Demski, C., Parkhill, K., Pidgeon, N. F. and Spence, A. 2015. Public values for energy futures: Framing, indeterminacy and policy making. Energy Policy 87, pp. 665-672. (10.1016/j.enpol.2015.01.035)
Capstick, S. B., Pidgeon, N. F. and Henwood, K. 2015. Stability and change in British public discourses about climate change between 1997 and 2010. Environmental Values 24(6), pp. 725-753. (10.3197/096327115X14420732702617)
Capstick, S. B., Corner, A. J. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2015. Climate change communication. In: Luber, G. and Lemery, J. eds. Global Climate Change and Human Health: From Science to Practice. Jossey-Bass, pp. 467-502.
Parkhill, K., Shirani, F., Butler, C., Henwood, K., Groves, C. R. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2015. "We are a community but that takes a certain amount of energy": Exploring shared visions, social action and resilience in place-based community-led initiatives. Environmental Science & Policy 53(A), pp. 60-69. (10.1016/j.envsci.2015.05.014)
Brügger, A., Dessai, S., Devine-Wright, P., Morton, T. A. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2015. Psychological responses to the proximity of climate change. Nature Climate Change 5(12), pp. 1031-1037. (10.1038/nclimate2760)
Demski, C., Butler, C., Parkhill, K. A., Spence, A. and Pidgeon, N. . F. 2015. Public values for energy system change. Global Environmental Change 34, pp. 59-69. (10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.06.014)
Henwood, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2015. Gender, ethical voices and UK energy policy in the post-Fukushima Era. In: Tahbi, B. and Roeser, S. eds. The Ethics of Nuclear Energy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 67-84.
Thomas, M., Pidgeon, N., Whitmarsh, L. and Ballinger, R. 2015. Mental models of sea-level change: A mixed methods analysis on the Severn Estuary, UK. Global Environmental Change 33, pp. 71-82. (10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.04.009)
Spence, A., Demski, C., Butler, C., Parkhill, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2015. Public perceptions of demand-side management and a smarter energy future. Nature Climate Change 5, pp. 550-554. (10.1038/nclimate2610)
Corner, A. J. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2015. Like artificial trees? The effect of framing by natural analogy on public perceptions of geoengineering. Climatic Change 130(3), pp. 425-438. (10.1007/s10584-014-1148-6)
Thomas, M., Pidgeon, N., Whitmarsh, L. and Ballinger, R. 2015. Expert judgements of sea-level rise at the local scale. Journal of Risk Research 19(5), pp. 664-685. (10.1080/13669877.2015.1043568)
Cherry, C., Hopfe, C., MacGillivray, B. H. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2015. Media discourses of low carbon housing: The marginalisation of social and behavioural dimensions within the British broadsheet press. Public Understanding of Science 24(3), pp. 302-310. (10.1177/0963662513512442)
Capstick, S. B., Demski, C. C., Sposato, R. G., Pidgeon, N. F., Spence, A. and Corner, A. J. 2015. Public perception of climate change in Britain following the winter 2013/2014 flooding. Project Report. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
Butler, C., Parkhill, K., Demski, C. C., Pidgeon, N. F. and Spence, A. 2015. Public engagement with energy system change. Energia, Ambiente E Innovazione: Speciale - Transition and global challenges towards low carbon societies, pp. 71-74. (10.12910/EAI2015-017)
Shirani, F., Butler, C., Henwood, K., Parkhill, K. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2015. I’m not a tree hugger, I’m just like you’: changing perceptions of sustainable lifestyles. Environmental Politics 24(1), pp. 57-74. (10.1080/09644016.2014.959247)

2014

Capstick, S. B., Whitmarsh, L. E., Poortinga, W., Pidgeon, N. F. and Upham, P. 2014. International trends in public perceptions of climate change over the past quarter century. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 6(1), pp. 35-61. (10.1002/wcc.321)
Butler, C., Parkhill, K. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2014. Energy consumption and everyday life: choice, values and agency through a practice theoretical lens. Journal of Consumer Culture 16(3), pp. 887-907. (10.1177/1469540514553691)
Pidgeon, N. F., Demski, C. C., Butler, C., Parkhill, K. and Spence, A. 2014. Creating a national citizen engagement process for energy policy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111(Suppl), pp. 13606-13613. (10.1073/pnas.1317512111)
Butler, C., Parkhill, K. A., Shirani, F., Henwood, K. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2014. Examining the dynamics of energy demand through a biographical lens. Nature and Culture 9(2), pp. 164-182. (10.3167/nc.2014.090204)
Corner, A. J., Markowitz, E. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2014. Public engagement with climate change: the role of human values. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 5(3), pp. 411-422. (10.1002/wcc.269)
Demski, C. C., Poortinga, W. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2014. Exploring public perceptions of energy security risks in the UK. Energy Policy 66, pp. 369-378. (10.1016/j.enpol.2013.10.079)
Capstick, S. B. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2014. Public perception of cold weather events as evidence for and against climate change. Climatic Change 122(4), pp. 695-708. (10.1007/s10584-013-1003-1)
Capstick, S. B. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2014. What is climate change scepticism? Examination of the concept using a mixed methods study of the UK public. Global Environmental Change 24, pp. 389-401. (10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.08.012)
Parkhill, K., Butler, C. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2014. Landscapes of threat: exploring discourses of stigma around large energy developments. Landscape Research 39(5), pp. 566-582. (10.1080/01426397.2013.775232)
Pidgeon, N. F. 2014. Complexity, uncertainty and future risks. Journal of Risk Research 17(10), pp. 1269-1271. (10.1080/13669877.2014.940599)
Corner, A. J., Capstick, S. B. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2014. Public perceptions of ocean acidification summary findings of two nationally representative surveys of the British public, October 2014. Working paper. Cardiff University.

2013

Rayner, S., Heyward, C., Kruger, T., Pidgeon, N. F., Redgwell, C. and Savulescu, J. 2013. The Oxford principles. Climatic Change 121(3), pp. 499-512. (10.1007/s10584-012-0675-2)
Parkhill, K., Demski, C. C., Butler, C., Spence, A. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2013. Transforming the UK Energy System: Public Values, Attitudes and Acceptability - Synthesis Report. Project Report. [Online]. London: UKERC. Available at: http://www.ukerc.ac.uk/support/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=3229
Butler, C., Parkhill, K. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2013. Transforming the UK Energy System: Public Values, Attitudes and Acceptability - Deliberating energy system transitions in the UK. Project Report. [Online]. London: UKERC. Available at: http://www.ukerc.ac.uk/support/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=3083
Pidgeon, N. F., Parkhill, K., Corner, A. J. and Vaughan, N. 2013. Deliberating stratospheric aerosols for climate geoengineering and the SPICE project. Nature Climate Change 3, pp. 451-457. (10.1038/NCLIMATE1807)
Demski, C., Spence, A. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2013. Transforming the UK energy system: public values, attitudes and acceptability - summary findings from a survey conducted August 2012. Project Report. London: UKERC.
Butler, C., Parkhill, K. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2013. Nuclear power after 3/11: Looking back and thinking ahead. In: Hindmarsh, R. ed. Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi: Social, Political and Environmental Issues. Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society London: Routledge
Shirani, F. J., Butler, C., Henwood, K. L., Parkhill, K. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2013. Disconnected futures: exploring notions of ethical responsibility in energy practices. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability 18(4), pp. 455-468. (10.1080/13549839.2013.779236)
Capstick, S. B., Pidgeon, N. and Whitehead, M. 2013. Public perceptions of climate change in Wales: Summary findings of a survey of the Welsh public conducted during November and December 2012. Project Report. [Online]. Climate Change Consortium of Wales. Available at: http://c3wales.org/thematic_clusters/survey-findings-reveal-public-perceptions-of-climate-change/
Corner, A. J., Parkhill, K., Pidgeon, N. F. and Vaughan, N. E. 2013. Messing with nature? Exploring public perceptions of geoengineering in the UK. Global Environmental Change 23(5), pp. 938-947. (10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.06.002)
Poortinga, W., Aoyagi, M. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2013. Public perceptions of climate change and energy futures before and after the Fukushima accident: A comparison between Britain and Japan. Energy Policy 62, pp. 1204-1211. (10.1016/j.enpol.2013.08.015)
Satterfield, T., Conti, J., Harthorn, B. H., Pidgeon, N. F. and Pitts, A. 2013. Understanding shifting perceptions of nanotechnologies and their implications for policy dialogues about emerging technologies. Science and Public Policy 40(2), pp. 247-260. (10.1093/scipol/scs084)
Parkhill, K., Pidgeon, N. F., Corner, A. J. and Vaughan, N. 2013. Deliberation and responsible innovation: a geoengineering case study. In: Owen, R., Bessant, J. and Heintz, M. eds. Responsible Innovation:Managing the Responsible Emergence of Science and Innovation in Society. London: Wiley, pp. 219-240.

2012

Venables, D., Pidgeon, N. F., Parkhill, K., Henwood, K. L. and Simmons, P. 2012. Living with nuclear power: Sense of place, proximity, and risk perceptions in local host communities. Journal of Environmental Psychology 32(4), pp. 371-383. (10.1016/j.jenvp.2012.06.003)
Corner, A. J., Pidgeon, N. F. and Parkhill, K. 2012. Perceptions of geoengineering: Public attitudes, stakeholder perspectives & the challenge of 'upstream' engagement. WIRES Climage Change 3(5), pp. 451-466. (10.1002/wcc.176)
Pidgeon, N. F., Corner, A. J., Parkhill, K., Spence, A. A., Butler, C. and Poortinga, W. 2012. Exploring early public responses to geoengineering. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences 370(1974), pp. 4176-4196. (10.1098/rsta.2012.0099)
Poortinga, W., Spence, A., Demski, C. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2012. Individual-motivational factors in the acceptability of demand-side and supply-side measures to reduce carbon emissions. Energy Policy 48, pp. 812-819. (10.1016/j.enpol.2012.06.029)
Corner, A. J. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2012. Nanotechnologies and upstream public engagement: dilemmas, debates and prospects?. In: Herr Harthorn, B. and Mohr, J. W. eds. The Social Life of Nanotechnology., Vol. 18. Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge
Pidgeon, N. F. and Demski, C. 2012. From nuclear to renewable: Energy system transformation and public attitudes. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 68(4), pp. 41-51. (10.1177/0096340212451592)
Spence, A., Poortinga, W. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2012. The psychological distance of climate change. Risk Analysis 32(6), pp. 957-972. (10.1111/j.1539-6924.2011.01695.x)
Butler, C., Parkhill, K. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2012. Briefing note: transforming the UK energy system public values, attitudes and acceptability, interim findings, May 2012. Working paper. Cardiff: School of Psychology, Cardiff University. Available at: http://psych.cf.ac.uk/understandingrisk/docs/Briefing%20Note%20I%20Transforming%20the%20UK%20Energy%20System.pdf
Pidgeon, N. F. 2012. Climate Change Risk Perception and Communication: Addressing a Critical Moment?. Risk Analysis 32(6), pp. 951-956. (10.1111/j.1539-6924.2012.01856.x)
Pidgeon, N. F. 2012. Public understanding of, and attitudes to, climate change: UK and international perspectives and policy. Climate Policy 12(S1), pp. S85-S106. (10.1080/14693062.2012.702982)
Randle, S. et al. 2012. A trans-atlantic conversation on responsible innovation and responsible governance. In: van Lenet, H. et al. eds. Little by Little: Expansions of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies. IOS Press, pp. 169-180.

2011

Poortinga, W., Spence, A., Whitmarsh, L. E., Capstick, S. B. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2011. Uncertain climate: An investigation into public scepticism about anthropogenic climate change. Global Environmental Change 21(3), pp. 1015-1024. (10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.03.001)
Parkhill, K., Henwood, K. L., Pidgeon, N. F. and Simmons, P. 2011. Laughing it off? Humour, affect and emotion work in communities living with nuclear risk. British Journal of Sociology 62(2), pp. 324-346. (10.1111/j.1468-4446.2011.01367.x)
Spence, A., Poortinga, W., Butler, C. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2011. Perceptions of climate change and willingness to save energy related to flood experience. Nature Climate Change 1(1), pp. 46-49. (10.1038/nclimate1059)
Pidgeon, N. F. and Fischhoff, B. 2011. The role of social and decision sciences in communicating uncertain climate risks. Nature Climate Change 1, pp. 35-41. (10.1038/nclimate1080)
Corner, A., Parkhill, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2011. 'Experiment Earth?' Reflections on a public dialogue on geoengineering. Working paper. Cardiff: School of Psychology, Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.iagp.ac.uk/publications/‘experiment-earth’-reflections-public-dialogue-geoengineering
Butler, C., Parkhill, K. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2011. Nuclear Power After Japan: The Social Dimensions. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 53(6), pp. 3-14. (10.1080/00139157.2011.623051)
Corner, A. J., Venables, D., Spence, A., Poortinga, W., Demski, C. C. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2011. Nuclear power, climate change and energy security: Exploring British public attitudes. Energy Policy 39(9), pp. 4823-4833. (10.1016/j.enpol.2011.06.037)
Butler, C., Parkhill, K. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2011. From the material to the imagined: public engagement with low carbon technologies in a nuclear community. In: Devine-Wright, P. ed. Renewable Energy and the Public: From NIMBY to Participation. London: Earthscan, pp. 301-316.
Pidgeon, N. F., Harthorn, B. and Satterfield, T. 2011. Nanotechnology Risk Perceptions and Communication: Emerging Technologies, Emerging Challenges. Risk Analysis 31(11), pp. 1694-1700. (10.1111/j.1539-6924.2011.01738.x)
Butler, C. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2011. From ‘flood defence’ to ‘flood risk management’: exploring governance, responsibility, and blame. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 29(3), pp. 533-547. (10.1068/c09181j)
Parkhill, K. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2011. Public Engagement on Geoengineering Research: Preliminary Report on the SPICE Deliberative Workshops. Working paper. Cardiff: School of Psychology, Cardiff University. Available at: http://psych.cf.ac.uk/understandingrisk/docs/spice.pdf

2010

Spence, A. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2010. Framing and communicating climate change: the effects of distance and outcome frame manipulations. Global Environmental Change 20(4), pp. 656-667. (10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.07.002)
Spence, A. A., Poortinga, W., Pidgeon, N. F. and Lorenzoni, I. 2010. Public perceptions of energy choices: the influence of beliefs about climate change and the environment. Energy and Environment 21(5), pp. 385-407. (10.1260/0958-305X.21.5.385)
Pidgeon, N. F. 2010. Public understanding of and attitudes towards climate change. Discussion Paper. London: Government Office for Science. Available at: http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/foresight/docs/international-dimensions/11-1021-public-understanding-of-climate-change
Parkhill, K., Pidgeon, N., Henwood, K. L., Simmons, P. and Venables, D. 2010. From the familiar to the extraordinary: local residents’ perceptions of risk when living with nuclear power in the UK. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35(1), pp. 39-58. (10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00364.x)
Hall, J. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2010. A systems view of climate change. Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems 27(3), pp. 243-253. (10.1080/10286608.2010.482659)
Pidgeon, N. F. and Corner, A. J. 2010. Geoengineering the climate – the social and ethical implications. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 52(1), pp. 24-37. (10.1080/00139150903479563)
Corner, A. J. et al. 2010. Communicating climate change to mass public audiences. Working paper. Climate Outreach and Information Network.
Henwood, K. L., Pidgeon, N. F., Parkhill, K. and Simmons, P. 2010. Researching risk: Narrative, biography, subjectivity. FQS: Forum Qualitative Social Research - Sozialforschung 11(1), article number: 20.
Bickerstaff, K., Lorenzoni, I., Jones, M. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2010. Locating Scientific Citizenship: The Institutional Contexts and Cultures of Public Engagement. Science, Technology & Human Values 35(4), pp. 474-500. (10.1177/0162243909345835)
Pidgeon, N. F. 2010. Systems thinking, culture of reliability and safety. Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems 27(3), pp. 211-217. (10.1080/10286608.2010.482660)

2009

Pidgeon, N. F., Harthorn, B. H., Bryant, K. and Rogers-Hayden, T. 2009. Deliberating the risks of nanotechnologies for energy and health applications in the United States and United Kingdom. Nature Nanotechnology 4(2), pp. 95-98. (10.1038/nnano.2008.362)
Venables, D., Pidgeon, N. F., Simmons, P., Henwood, K. L. and Parkhill, K. 2009. Living with nuclear power: a Q-Method study of local community perceptions. Risk Analysis 29(8), pp. 1089-1104. (10.1111/j.1539-6924.2009.01259.x)
Butler, C. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2009. Media communications and public understanding of climate change: reporting scientific consensus on anthropogenic warming. In: Boyce, T. and Lewis, J. eds. Climate Change and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 5. New York: Peter Lang, pp. 43-58.
de França Doria, M., Pidgeon, N. F. and Hunter, P. R. 2009. Perceptions of drinking water quality and risk and its effect on behaviour: A cross-national study. Science of the Total Environment 407(21), pp. 5455-5464. (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.06.031)
Pidgeon, N. F. and Butler, C. 2009. Risk analysis and climate change. Environmental Politics 18(5), pp. 670-688. (10.1080/09644010903156976)
Spence, A. A. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2009. Psychology, Climate Change & Sustainable Bahaviour. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 51(6), pp. 8-18. (10.1080/00139150903337217)

2008

Rowe, G., Horlick-Jones, T. E., Walls, J., Poortinga, W. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2008. Analysis of a normative framework for evaluating public engagement exercises: reliability, validity and limitations. Public Understanding of Science 17(4), pp. 419-441. (10.1177/0963662506075351)
Bickerstaff, K., Lorenzoni, I., Pidgeon, N. F., Poortinga, W. and Simmons, P. 2008. Reframing nuclear power in the UK energy debate: nuclear power, climate change mitigation and radioactive waste. Public Understanding of Science 17(2), pp. 145-169. (10.1177/0963662506066719)
Pidgeon, N. F., Lorenzoni, I. and Poortinga, W. 2008. Climate change or nuclear power - No thanks! A quantitative study of public perceptions and risk framing in Britain. Global Environmental Change 18(1), pp. 69-85. (10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2007.09.005)
Bickerstaff, K., Simmons, P. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2008. Constructing responsibilities for risk: negotiating citizen-state relationships. Environment and Planning A 40(6), pp. 1312-1330. (10.1068/a39150)
Haynes, K., Barclay, J. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2008. Whose reality counts? Factors affecting the perception of volcanic risk. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 172(3-4), pp. 259-272. (10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2007.12.012)
Henwood, K., Pidgeon, N. F., Sarre, S., Simmons, P. and Smith, N. 2008. Risk, framing and everyday life: Epistemological and methodological reflections from three socio-cultural projects. Health Risk and Society 10(5), pp. 421-438. (10.1080/13698570802381451)
Poortinga, W., Cox, P. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2008. The perceived health risks of indoor radon gas and overhead powerlines: A comparative multilevel approach. Risk Analysis 28(1), pp. 235-248. (10.1111/j.1539-6924.2008.01015.x)
Rogers-Hayden, T. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2008. Developments in nanotechnology public engagement in the UK: 'upstream' towards sustainability?. Journal of Cleaner Production 16(8-9), pp. 1010-1013. (10.1016/j.jclepro.2007.04.013)
Henwood, K. L., Parkhill, K. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2008. Science, technology and risk perception: from gender differences to the effects made by gender. Equal Opportunities International 27(8), pp. 662-676. (10.1108/02610150810916730)
Pidgeon, N. F., Simmons, P., Sarre, S., Henwood, K. L. and Smith, N. 2008. The ethics of socio-cultural risk research. Health, Risk & Society 10(4), pp. 321-329. (10.1080/13698570802334526)
Spence, A. A., Pidgeon, N. F. and Uzzell, D. 2008. Climate change - psychology's contribution. The Psychologist 22(2), pp. 108-111.
Haynes, K., Barclay, J. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2008. The issue of trust and its influence on risk communication during a volcanic crisis. Bulletin of Volcanology 70(5), pp. 605-621. (10.1007/s00445-007-0156-z)
Lorenzoni, I., O'Riordan, T. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2008. Hot air and cold feet: the UK response to climate change. In: Compston, H. and Bailey, I. eds. Turning down the heat: the politics of climate policy in affluent democracies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 104-124.

2007

Horlick-Jones, T. E., Walls, J., Rowe, G., Pidgeon, N. F., Poortinga, W., Murdock, G. and O'Riordan, T. 2007. The GM debate: risk, politics and public engagement. Genetics and Society. Abingdon and New York: Routledge.
Pidgeon, N. F., Poortinga, W. and Walls, J. 2007. Scepticism, reliance and risk managing institutions: towards a conceptual model of 'critical trust'. In: Siegrist, M., Earle, T. C. and Gutscher, H. eds. Trust in Cooperative Risk Management: Uncertainty and Scepticism in the Public Mind. The Earthscan Risk in Society Series London: Earthscan, pp. 117-142.
Poortinga, W. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2007. Public perceptions of agricultural biotechnology in Britain: the case of GM food. In: Brossard, D., Shanahan, J. and Nesbitt, C. eds. The Public, the Media and Agricultural Biotechnology. Cambridge, MA: CABI Publishing, pp. 21-56.
Pidgeon, N. F. and Rogers-Hayden, T. 2007. Opening up nanotechnology dialogue with the publics: Risk communication or 'upstream engagement'?. Health, Risk & Society 9(2), pp. 191-210. (10.1080/13698570701306906)
Rogers-Hayden, T. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2007. Moving engagement "upstream"? Nanotechnologies and the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering's inquiry. Public Understanding of Science 16(3), pp. 345-364. (10.1177/0963662506076141)
Haynes, K., Barclay, J. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2007. Volcanic hazard communication using maps: an evaluation of their effectiveness. Bulletin of Volcanology 70(2), pp. 123-138. (10.1007/s00445-007-0124-7)

2006

Poortinga, W. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2006. Exploring the structure of attitudes toward genetically modified food. Risk Analysis 26(6), pp. 1707-1719. (10.1111/j.1539-6924.2006.00828.x)
Horlick-Jones, T. E., Walls, J., Rowe, G., Pidgeon, N. F., Poortinga, W. and O'Riordan, T. 2006. On evaluating the GM Nation? Public debate about the commercialisation of transgenic crops in Britain. New Genetics and Society 25(3), pp. 265-288. (10.1080/14636770601032858)
Clayton, H., Pidgeon, N. F. and Whitby, M. 2006. Is a cross-party consensus on climate change possible – or desirable? Report of first inquiry 2006. Technical Report.
Poortinga, W. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2006. Prior attitudes, salient value similarity, and dimensionality: Toward an integrative model of trust in risk regulation. Journal of Applied Social Psychology 36(7), pp. 1674-1700. (10.1111/j.0021-9029.2006.00076.x)
Lorenzoni, I., Leiserowitz, A., Doria, M. D. F., Poortinga, W. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2006. Cross-national comparisons of image associations with "global warming" and "climate change" among laypeople in the United States of America and Great Britain. Journal of Risk Research 9(3), pp. 265-281. (10.1080/13669870600613658)
Rowe, G., Poortinga, W. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2006. A comparison of responses to Internet and postal surveys in a public engagement context. Science Communication 27(3), pp. 352-375. (10.1177/1075547005284668)
Pidgeon, N. F. and Poortinga, W. 2006. British public attitudes to agricultural biotechnology and the 2003 GM nation? Public debate: distrust, ambivalence and risk. In: Glasner, P., Atkinson, P. and Greenslade, H. eds. New Genetics, New Social Formations. Genetics and Society New York, NY: Routledge, pp. 10-36.
Bickerstaff, K., Simmons, P. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2006. Situating local experience of risk: Peripherality, marginality and place identity in the UK foot and mouth disease crisis. Geoforum 37(5), pp. 844-858. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2005.11.004)
Weyman, A. K., Pidgeon, N. F., Walls, J. and Horlick-Jones, T. E. 2006. Exploring Comparative Ratings and Constituent Facets of Public Trust in Risk Regulatory Bodies and Related Stakeholder Groups. Journal of Risk Research 9(6), pp. 605-622. (10.1080/13669870600799812)
Lorenzoni, I. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2006. Public Views on Climate Change: European and USA Perspectives. Climatic Change 77(1-2), pp. 73-95. (10.1007/s10584-006-9072-z)
Jeffcott, S., Pidgeon, N. F., Weyman, A. and Walls, J. 2006. Risk, Trust, and Safety Culture in U.K. Train Operating Companies. Risk Analysis 26(5), pp. 1105-1121. (10.1111/j.1539-6924.2006.00819.x)
Rogers-Hayden, T. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2006. Reflecting upon the UK's Citizens' Jury on Nanotechnologies: Nano Jury UK. Nanotechnology Law & Business (NLB) 3(2), pp. 167-178.
Poortinga, W., Pidgeon, N. F. and Lorenzoni, I. 2006. Public perceptions of nuclear power, climate change and energy options in Britain: Summary findings of a survey conducted during october and november 2005. Technical Report.

2005

Pidgeon, N. F., Poortinga, W., Rowe, G., Horlick-Jones, T. E., Walls, J. and O'Riordan, T. 2005. Using surveys in public participation processes for risk decision-making: the case of the 2003 British GM Nation? Public Debate. Risk Analysis 25(2), pp. 467-479. (10.1111/j.1539-6924.2005.00603.x)
Poortinga, W. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2005. Trust in risk regulation: cause or consequence of the acceptability of GM food?. Risk Analysis 25(1), pp. 199-209. (10.1111/j.0272-4332.2005.00579.x)
Rowe, G., Horlick-Jones, T. E., Walls, J. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2005. Difficulties in evaluating public engagement initiatives: reflections on an evaluation of the UK GM Nation? public debate about transgenic crops. Public Understanding of Science 14(4), pp. 331-352. (10.1177/0963662505056611)
Lorenzoni, I., Pidgeon, N. F. and O'Connor, R. E. 2005. Dangerous Climate Change: The Role for Risk Research. Risk Analysis 25(6), pp. 1387-1398. (10.1111/j.1539-6924.2005.00686.x)

2004

Poortinga, W. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2004. Trust, the asymmetry principle, and the role of prior beliefs. Risk Analysis 24(6), pp. 1475-1486. (10.1111/j.0272-4332.2004.00543.x)
Poortinga, W., Bickerstaff, K., Langford, I., Niewöhner, J. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2004. The British 2001 Foot and Mouth crisis: a comparative study of public risk perceptions, trust and beliefs about government policy in two communities. Journal of Risk Research 7(1), pp. 73-90. (10.1080/1366987042000151205)
Wilkinson, S. B. T., Pidgeon, N. F., Lee, J., Pattison, C. and Lambert, N. 2004. Exploring consumer attitudes towards functional foods: A qualitative study. Journal of Nutraceuticals, Functional & Medical Foods 4(3-4), pp. 5-28.
Walls, J., Pidgeon, N. F., Weyman, A. and Horlick-Jones, T. 2004. Critical trust: understanding lay perceptions of health and safety risk regulation. Health, Risk and Society 6(2), pp. 133-150. (10.1080/1369857042000219788)
Niewöhner, J., Cox, P., Gerrard, S. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2004. Evaluating the Efficacy of a Mental Models Approach for Improving Occupational Chemical Risk Protection. Risk Analysis 24(2), pp. 349-361. (10.1111/j.0272-4332.2004.00437.x)

2003

Poortinga, W. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2003. Exploring the dimensionality of trust in risk regulation. Risk Analysis 23(5), pp. 961-972. (10.1111/1539-6924.00373)
Cox, P., Niewoehner, J., Pidgeon, N. F., Gerrard, S., Fischhoff, B. and Riley, D. 2003. The use of mental models in chemical risk protection: developing a generic workplace methodology. Risk Analysis 23(2), pp. 311-324. (10.1111/1539-6924.00311)
Henwood, K. L. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2003. Grounded theory in psychological research. In: Camic, P. M., Rhodes, J. E. and Yardley, L. eds. Qualitative Research in Psychology: Expanding Perspectives in Methodology and Design. Washington, DC: APA Publications, pp. 131-155.

2002

Chilton, S., Covey, J., Hopkins, L., Jones-Lee, M., Loomes, G., Pidgeon, N. F. and Spencer, A. 2002. Public perceptions of risk and preference-based values of safety. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 25(3), pp. 211-232. (10.1023/A:1020962104810)
Pidgeon, N. F. 2002. Science, uncertainty and society. Eurohealth 8(1), pp. 16-18.

1995

Henwood, K. L. and Pidgeon, N. F. 1995. Remaking the link: qualitative research and feminist standpoint theory. Feminism and Psychology 5(1), pp. 7-30. (10.1177/0959353595051003)
Henwood, K. L. and Pidgeon, N. F. 1995. Grounded theory and psychological research. The Psychologist 8(3), pp. 115-118.

Research in my group spans a number of broad topics under the headings of: Risk Perception and Communication; the Environment; Science, Technology and Public Policy; and Sustainability.

Current topics studied include:

public and stakeholder perceptions of climate change and energy futures
attitudes to sustainable energy systems and scenarios
energy biographies’ and energy use in everyday life
public engagement with and governance of climate engineering proposals
nanotechnology in society
perceptions of radiological risks (eg radon, nuclear power).

Funding

European Commission
M4Shale
May 2014 - April 2017 (with TNO Netherlands, University of Warwick, British Geological Survey and European partners)
EURO 2,999,649

Economic and Social Research Council (JPI Climate)
European Perceptions of Climate Change – Project Co-ordinators
January 2014 - December 2016 (with the Welsh School of Architecture, University of Stuttgart, University of Bergen, Symlog Paris, and the Climate Outreach Information Network)
EURO 1,200,000

Engineering and Physical Science Research Council
Opportunities and barriers to achieving transitions in UK energy and materials use - the role of publics, society and decision-makers
Jan 2015 - September 2018 (with Green Alliance, and the Universities of Leeds, Bath and Nottingham Trent)
£734,039

Engineering and Physical Science Research Council
UK Energy Research Centre Phase 3
April 2014 - May 2019 (with Imperial College and the Universities of Leeds, Strathclyde, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UCL London, Oxford, Southampton, Sussex, Exeter, Edinburgh, Warwick, and Aberdeen)
£16,474,252

Economic and Social Research Council
Public perceptions of climate change in the aftermath of major national flooding
June 2014 - May 2015 (with the University of Nottingham and the Climate Outreach Information Network)
£198,308

Natural Environment Research Council
CCS Grand Challenge in Geological Storage: CO2 injection and storage: short and long-term behaviour at different scales
October 2013 - September 2017 (with Imperial College, Heriot-Watt, University of Nottingham and British Geological Survey)
£1,515,256

Natural Environment Research Council (Pearson and Corner)
Public perceptions of ocean acidification risks
January 11 – July 13. (with Cardiff School of Earth and Environmental Sciences)
£150,545

Economic and Social Research Council Strategic Infrastructure Fund
Energy biographies: network engagement and installation costs
July 2013- June 2015 (with Cardiff School of Social Sciences)
£283,836

Economic and Social Research Council Strategic Infrastructure Fund
The climate crunch
April 2013 - March 2014 (with Universities of Oxford, Lancaster, Sussex, Strathclyde and Durham)
£20,000

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Transformation of the Top and Tail of Energy Networks - Grand Challenge Network
October 2010 - September 2015 (with Universities of Manchester, Imperial, Nottingham, Southampton, UCL London, Strathclyde, Loughborough, and Warwick)
£50,000

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Integrated assessment of geoengineering proposals (IAGP)
October 2010 - September 2014 (with Universities of Leeds, East Anglia, Lancaster, Oxford, Bristol and UK Met Office)
£375,401

Natural Environment Research Council (UK Energy Research Centre Research Fund)
Transforming the UK energy systems: public values, attitudes and acceptability
January 2011 - December 2012 (with Cardiff Schools of Engineering and Architecture)
£585,934

Economic and Social Research Council
Energy Biographies: Understanding the dynamics of energy use for energy demand reduction
October 2010 - September 2014 (with Cardiff School of Social Sciences)
£574,539

Welsh Assembly Government
Secondment agreement – Climate change knowledge transfer adviser
September 2010 - September 2012
£128,368

Higher Education Funding Council for Wales
Climate change consortium for Wales
October 2009 - March 2014 (with Cardiff Schools of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Social Sciences, and City and Regional Planning, as well as C3W partners in the Universities of Aberystwyth, Bangor and Swansea)
£960,842

ESRC Professorial Climate Leader Fellowship
Risk Perception, climate change and public engagement
October 2008 - September 2011
£249,123

ESRC
Public perceptions of climate change and energy futures in Britain
October 2008 - December 2010
£314,177 (with Cardiff School of Architecture)

Leverhulme Trust
Energy futures and risk: exploring public perception
January 2007 - December 2011
£1,008,000 (with Cardiff School of Architecture, Sheffield University, and University of East Anglia)

US National Science Foundation
Centre for Nanotechnology in Society, Theme 3, risk and societal responses
January 2006 - December 2015 (with University of California Santa Barbara, and University of British Columbia)
$200,000

Research group

Understanding Risk

Research collaborators

Cardiff University:

Professor Susan Baker, School of Social Science, Cardiff University
Dr Rhoda Ballinger, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University
Dr Catherine Butler, School of Psychology, Cardiff University
Dr Adam Corner, School of Psychology, Cardiff University
Professor Ian Hall, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University
Professor Karen Henwood, School of Social Science, Cardiff University
Professor Nick Jenkins, School of Engineering, Cardiff University
Professor Terry Marsden, School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University
Professor Paul Milbourne, School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University
Dr Karen Parkhill, School of Psychology, Cardiff University
Professor Peter Pearson, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University
Dr Wouter Poortinga, Welsh School of Architecture & School of Psychology, Cardiff University
Professor Yacine Rezgui, School of Engineering, Cardiff University
Mr Dan Venables, School of Psychology, Cardiff University
Dr Lorraine Whitmarsh, School of Psychology, Cardiff University.

External:

Professor Richard Eiser, School of Psychology, University of Sheffield
Professor Mike Hulme, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
Dr Chris Jones, School of Psychology, Sheffield University
Dr Irene Lorenzoni, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
Dr Tee Rogers-Hayden, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
Mr Peter Simmons, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
Dr Alexa Spence, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham
Dr Nem Vaughan, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia.

International collaborators:

Professor Baruch Fischhoff, Carnegie Mellon University
Professor Barbara Harthorn, University of California Santa Barbara
Professor Terre Satterfield, University of British Columbia.

I am currently fully bought out from undergraduate teaching. Ordinarily I contribute to Level 2 social psychology practicals, Level 3 projects and PS3415 (Environmental Psychology), and postgraduate methods teaching (qualitative and mixed-methods research).

Undergraduate education

1975 - 1979 Bachelor of Arts, First Class Joint Honours in Mathematics and Psychology, University of Keele. Subsidiary subjects: Computer Science; Philosophy of Natural Science (Distinction).

Postgraduate education

1980 -1983 Doctorate of Philosophy in Psychology, University of Bristol. Title: Strategies and Heuristics in Individual Decision Making.

Honours and awards

MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to climate change awareness and energy security policy
2011 Awarded Honorary Fellowship of the British Science Association
2003 Awarded Fellowship of the Society for Risk Analysis International.

Professional memberships

British Psychological Society
Society for Risk Analysis (International)
Society for Social Studies of Science
member of the Department of Energy and Climate Change Community Representation Working Group for long-term disposal of the UK's radioactive wastes (2015-2016)
Vice-Chair of the Social Sciences Expert Panel of the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Department for Energy and Climate Change (2012-2016)
member of the Science Advisory Group to the Chief Scientist at the Department for Energy and Climate Change (2010-2013).
member of the 2001 and 2008 Psychology Panels for the Research Assessment Exercise
member of the Royal Society Risk study group (1992) and nanotechnologies study group (2003/4).

Academic positions

1999 - 2006 Professor of Environmental Sciences, and Director of the Centre for Environmental Risk, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
1995 - 1999 Senior Lecturer in Psychology, School of Psychology University of Wales Bangor
1989 - 1995 Lecturer in Applied Psychology, Birkbeck College University of London
1983 - 1988 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Departments of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol and Sociology University of Exeter.

I am interested in the interaction between individuals and society, broadly defined, and the many problems that pose contemporary risks to people, particularly in relation to environmental or technological issues. This involves work on people's perceptions of such risks and their benefits, on trust in governments and institutions to manage the risks, and on deliberative processes for resolving risk disputes.

I have worked on a variety of issues over the years including nuclear power, GM food, chemical hazards and climate change, as well as on workplace safety cultures. I take an interdisciplinary approach to many of these issues, and hence my work spans social psychology, science and technology studies and environmental sciences. Prospective PhD students with an interest in the environment, from any of these disciplines, are encouraged to contact me.

If you are interested in applying for a PhD, please submit a formal application.

Current students

Andrew Roberts (registered SOCSCI) Identity, Place and Renewable Energy Developments in South Wales
Elspeth Spence Public Perceptions of Ocean Acidification
Mr Robert Sposato Public Perceptions of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
Ms Luba Pirgova Visions of Electricity: A Semiotic Approach
Ms Erin Roberts (registered SOCSCI) A study of landscapes of consumption in Rural North Wales
Mr Sam Hubble Visions of Domestic Electricity Use in a Changing Sociotechnical System Visions of Domestic Electricity Use in a Changing Sociotechnical System
Ms Catherine Cherry Exploring Discourses of Decarbonisation: The Social Construction of Low Carbon Housing.

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