Yr Athro Nick Pidgeon
Athro Seicoleg Amgylcheddol, Cyfarwyddwr Grŵp Ymchwil Deall Risg.
- Sylwebydd y cyfryngau
- Ar gael fel goruchwyliwr ôl-raddedig
I am Professor of Environmental Psychology and Director of the Understanding Risk Research Group within the School.
I work on risk, risk perception, and risk communication and as such my research is interdisciplinary at the interface of social psychology, environmental sciences and geography, and science and technology studies.
I am currently researching public responses to energy technologies, climate change risks, nanotechnologies and climate geoengineering.
I have in the past led numerous policy oriented projects on issues of public responses to environmental and technological risk issues and on ‘science in society’ for UK Government Departments, the Research Councils, the Royal Society, and Charities. I currently serve as a social sciences adviser to the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and to the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
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.
In 2006 I chaired a Parliamentary inquiry whose report ‘Is a Cross-Party Consensus on Climate Change Possible – or Desirable?’ recommended the setting up of the UK Climate Change Committee, an institutional innovation subsequently enacted in the 2008 Climate Change Act.
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.
Anrhydeddau a Dyfarniadau
- 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.
Aelodaethau proffesiynol
- 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).
Safleoedd academaidd blaenorol
- 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.
Ymrwymiadau siarad cyhoeddus
Extensive. Mostly radio and printed media.
2020
- Shirani, F.et al. 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)
- Shirani, F.et al. 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.et al. 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.
- Thomas, M.et al. Gustavsson, M. et al. eds. 2020. Using photographs in coastal research and engagement: reflections on two case studies. Palgrave.
- Roberts, E.et al. 2020. Valuing nature for wellbeing: narratives of socio-ecological change in dynamic intertidal landscapes. Environmental Values
- Cox, E., Spence, E. and Pidgeon, N. 2020. Public perceptions of carbon dioxide removal in the US and UK. Nature Climate Change
2019
- 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)
- 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)
- Becker, S.et al. 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)
- Harthorn, B. H.et al. 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.et al. 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)
- Groves, C.et al. 2019. Better energy futures: Developing a framework for addressing fuel poverty poverty. Project Report. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Doran, R.et al. 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)
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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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)
- Shirani, F.et al. 2018. UK smart living demonstrator (better energy futures) – research report. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
2017
- Thomas, G.et al. 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.et al. 2017. Public prioritisation of energy affordability in the UK. Energy Policy 110, pp. 404-409. (10.1016/j.enpol.2017.08.044)
- Shirani, F.et al. 2017. Critical moments? Life transitions and energy biographies. Geoforum 86, pp. 86-92. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.09.006)
- Groves, C.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 2017. Deliberating the perceived risks, benefits and societal implications of shale gas and oil extraction by hydraulic fracturing in the US and UK. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.
- MacGillivray, B. H. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2017. 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
- 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.et al. 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.et al. 2016. Public understanding in Great Britain of ocean acidification. Nature Climate Change 6, pp. 763-767. (10.1038/nclimate3005)
- Shirani, F.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 2016. Invested in unsustainability? On the psychosocial patterning of engagement in practices. Environmental Values 25(3), pp. 309-328. (10.3197/096327116X14598445991466)
- Groves, C.et al. 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.et al. 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)
- 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
- Thomas, M. J.et al. 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
- Henwood, K.et al. 2016. Energy Biographies Research Report. Project Report. Cardiff: .Energy Biographies.
2015
- Butler, C.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 2015. Psychological responses to the proximity of climate change. Nature Climate Change 5(12), pp. 1031-1037. (10.1038/nclimate2760)
- Demski, C.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 2015. Public perception of climate change in Britain following the winter 2013/2014 flooding. Project Report. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Shirani, F.et al. 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)
- Butler, C.et al. 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)
2014
- Capstick, S. B.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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)
- 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.
- 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)
2013
- Rayner, S.et al. 2013. The Oxford principles. Climatic Change 121(3), pp. 499-512. (10.1007/s10584-012-0675-2)
- Parkhill, K.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 2010. Researching risk: Narrative, biography, subjectivity. FQS: Forum Qualitative Social Research - Sozialforschung 11(1), article number: 20.
- Bickerstaff, K.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 2007. The GM debate: risk, politics and public engagement. Genetics and Society. London: Routledge.
- Horlick-Jones, T. E.et al. 2007. The GM debate: risk, politics and public engagement. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 2004. Exploring consumer attitudes towards functional foods: A qualitative study. Journal of Nutraceuticals, Functional & Medical Foods 4(3-4), pp. 5-28.
- Walls, J.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.
2001
- Henwood, K. L. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2001. Talk about woods and trees: threat of urbanization, stability, and biodiversity. Journal of Environmental Psychology 21(2), pp. 125-147. (10.1006/jevp.2000.0196)
2000
- Okrent, D. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2000. Introduction: Dilemmas in Intergenerational versus Intragenerational Equity and Risk Policy [Editorial]. Risk Analysis 20(6), pp. 759-762. (10.1111/0272-4332.206069)
- Pidgeon, N. F. and O'Leary, M. 2000. Man-made disasters: why technology and organizations (sometimes) fail. Safety Science 34(1-3), pp. 15-30. (10.1016/S0925-7535(00)00004-7)
1999
- Pidgeon, N. F., Henwood, K. L. and Horlick-Jones, T. E. 1999. Risk communication: new challenges for European health policy. Eurohealth 5(2), pp. 12-14.
- Pidgeon, N. F. 1999. Social amplification of risk: models, mechanisms and tools for policy. Risk, Decision and Policy 4(2), pp. 145-159.
- Carthy, T.et al. 1999. On the Contingent Valuation of Safety and the Safety of Contingent Valuation: Part 2 - The CV/SG "Chained" Approach. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 17(3), pp. 187-214. (10.1023/A:1007782800868)
1998
- Beattie, J.et al. 1998. On the contingent valuation of safety and the safety of contingent valuation: Part 1-caveat investigator. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 17(1), pp. 5-26. (10.1023/A:1007711416843)
- Fisk, J. E. and Pidgeon, N. F. 1998. Conditional probabilities, potential surprise, and the conjunction fallacy. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Section A: Human Experimental Psychology 51(3), pp. 655-681. (10.1080/713755770)
- Okrent, D. and Pidgeon, N. F. 1998. Editorial: Risk perception versus risk analysis. Reliability Engineering & System Safety 59(1), pp. 1-4. (10.1016/S0951-8320(97)00345-1)
- Pidgeon, N. F. 1998. Risk assessment, risk values and the social science programme: why we do need risk perception research. Reliability Engineering & System Safety 59(1), pp. 5-15. (10.1016/S0951-8320(97)00114-2)
- Pidgeon, N. F. 1998. Safety culture: key theoretical issues. Work and Stress 12(3), pp. 202-216. (10.1080/02678379808256862)
- Pidgeon, N. F. 1998. Shaking the kaleidoscope of disasters research - a reply. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 6(2), pp. 97-101. (10.1111/1468-5973.00078)
1997
- Fisk, J. E. and Pidgeon, N. F. 1997. The conjunction fallacy: the case for the existence of competing heuristic strategies. British Journal of Psychology 88(1), pp. 1-27. (10.1111/j.2044-8295.1997.tb02617.x)
- Pidgeon, N. F. 1997. The limits to safety? Culture, politics, learning and man-made disasters. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 5(1), pp. 1-14. (10.1111/1468-5973.00032)
1996
- Fisk, J. E. and Pidgeon, N. F. 1996. Component probabilities and the conjunction fallacy: Resolving signed summation and the low component model in a contingent approach. Acta Psychologica 94(1), pp. 1-20. (10.1016/0001-6918(95)00048-8)
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.
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).
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 Ocean 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 Ocean 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
Research collaborators
Cardiff University:
- Professor Susan Baker, School of Social Science, Cardiff University
- Dr Rhoda Ballinger, School of Earth and Ocean 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 Ocean 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 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.
Prosiectau ymchwil ôl-raddedig
- Dr Merryn Thomas (PhD Cardiff) Public and expert perceptions of sea-level change on the Severn Estuary
- Dr Stuart Capstick (PhD Cardiff) Climate change discourses in use by the UK public: commonalities and variation over a fifteen year period
- Dr Christina Demski (PhD Cardiff) Public perceptions of renewable energy technologies
- Dr Dan Venables (PhD Cardiff) Living with nuclear power: A mixed methods study of local community perceptions
- Professor John Fisk (PhD Birkbeck College) Component Probabilities and the Conjunction Fallacy
- Professor Edward Borodzicz (PhD Birkbeck College) Crisis Communication and Risk
- Dr Susan Hunter (PhD University of East Anglia) The place of Forestry in Modern Welsh Life and Culture
- Dr Wouter Poortinga (PhD University of East Anglia) Trust and Risk Perception of GM food
- Dr Susan Wilkinson (PhD University of East Anglia) Consumer Attitudes Towards Functional Foods
- Dr Miguel de Franca Doria (PhD University of East Anglia) Perceptions of Tap-water Risks
- Dr Carl Macrae (PhD University of East Anglia) Risk Assessment of Aviation Incident Reports
- Dr Katherine Haynes (PhD University of East Anglia) Risk Communication of Volcanic Hazards in Monserrat.
