Understanding Risk
The Understanding Risk research group is made up of a network of researchers who study risk in an interdisciplinary manner and have a particular focus on examining risk within real life, applied situations. This is a multi-centred research group involving researchers based at Cardiff University, Sheffield University and the University of East Anglia.
This research group stems from a previous programme of research titled ‘Understanding Risk’ which was funded by the Leverhulme Trust and based at the University of East Anglia whilst incorporating links with the Institute of Food Research in Norwich, Cardiff University and Brunel University. This was a five year programme of research that examined public perceptions of risk issues, trust, institutional response and stakeholder involvement.
Download Survey Report and Topline Results
11th June 2010: Climate Change and Energy Futures Report and Results [pdf]
Current research projects include:
This project aims to empirically investigate the extent to which citizens understand, conceptualise, and respond to the new and emerging spectrum of framings of energy policy. This project is funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
Complementing the Climate Change and Energy Choices project, this project will consist of a large nationwide quantitative survey conducted in Britain to examine public perceptions of climate change and various energy options. This project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
Taking a narrative approach, this project aims to explore values through the stories that people tell about living with risk. This project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
This project aims to investigate the common finding in many surveys that women typically report higher perceptions of public risk than men. The research will address the deficit of theory surrounding this frequently observed relationship between gender and risk. This project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
This project is funded by the US National Science Foundation.
This project aims to examine the way in which differentially affected groups react to the risks of radon in their own homes, and how this interacts with the wider social and institutional context. This project is funded by the Health Protection Agency.
