Presentations
August 19th, 2006 by johnadams
Downloadable presentations:
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| 2008 | Where and when is shared space safe? Presentation for PRIAN Public Realm Course, 22 April 2008 |
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| 2008 | Managing risk - framing the problem Summary of presentation for Energy Insurance Mutual conference for risk managers, Orlando, 26 February 2008. |
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| 2007 | Quality of Life at Risk Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Amsterdam, 4 May, 2007 |
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| 2007 | Framing devices for thinking about threats Presentation for RUSI Conference London, 25 - 26 April, 2007 |
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| 2007 | “Ensure you can see where you are putting your feet before walking” PowerPoint Notes version of presentation to OpRisk Europe Conference, 21 March 2007, London |
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| 2007 | Complexity & Uncertainty in a Risk Averse Society Summary of presentation to Omega Centre Conference on “Planning and decision-making amidst complexity, risk and uncertainty”, Royal Institute of British Architects, London, 22 January 2007. |
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| 2006 | Three framing devices for managing risk Summary of presentation for CRIMS (Canadian Risk and Insurance Management Society) conference, Calgary, 17-20 September 2006. |
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| 2006 | Cross-thinking about sustainability: Hypermobility - a challenge to governance A public lecture, Amsterdam 11 May 2006 PowerPoint Notes version |
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| 2005 | Risk Management: it’s not rocket science Handout for Imperial College Seminar |
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| 2004 | Science and Terrorism: Post-conferenceAafter-thoughts World Federation of Scientists’ International Seminar on Terrorism Erice 7-12 May |
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| 2003 | Risk and Morality: Green College University of British Columbia |
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| 2003 | The Role of Risk Assessment, and the Need for a Sense of Proportion Corporate Risk Group, Programme for Cadbury Schweppes and DiageoWarwick 30 April 2003 |
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| 1999 | Does the Royal Navy have enough accidents? For International Conference (UK Ministry of Defence) on The Modern Warship- management of safety in war and peace, London, 24 - 26 November |
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| 1999 | Risk-Benefit Analysis: who wants it? who needs it? For Yale Conference on Cost Benefit Analysis, 8-10 Oct 1999 |
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| 1998 | Risk in a Hyper-Mobile World Inaugural Lecture, University College London, 5 November 1998 |
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Other presentations:
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| 2008 | Transport and Neighbourhoods by Hank Ditmar Book launch at Princes Trust, lead discussant, 18 June |
| 2008 | Shared Space Phone-in Radio Scotland 24 June |
| 2008 | Should we fortify our cities? RIBA Debate (against with Piers Gough) 25 June |
| 2008 | Does removing street furniture make streets afer for pedestrians Conference on improving pedestrian safety,Sadlers Wells, 26 June |
| 2008 | Sensible tree risk management Presentation to conference of Tree Safety Group, Royal Geographical Society 29 May 2008 |
| 2008 | Quality of Life at Risk Presentation for London Travel Watch, 14 May |
| 2008 | Taking the slow road - the future of travel in a carbon-constrained world, lunch-time discussion at the RSA , London, 27 March |
| 2008 | Perceived Risk of Data Sharing and Storage, presentation to IAAC (Information Assurance Advisory Council), London, 26 March |
| 2008 | Panicology discussion Dana Centre, London, 7 February |
| 2008 | Risk “Port Talk” Goodenough College, 22 January |
| 2007 | Risk Seminar for MSc in Environmental Technology, Imperial College London 15 November |
| 2007 | The risks of hypermobility Seminar for Transport Operations Research Group, Newcastle University 14 November |
| 2007 | Managing risk in a safety critical industry: framing devices for analysing risk Pre-dinner speech for BG Group HSSE Workshop Reading 6 November |
| 2007 | Changing environments RSA Conference on Risk and Childhood, London, 31 October 2007 |
| 2007 | Risk: the man in Whitehall knows best? Seminar for the Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University, 26 October |
| 2007 | Planning for stupid, obedient automotons or real people? Prian Public Realm Course, Bedford, 26 September |
| 2007 | Risk: It’s not rocket science - it’s more complicated Seminar for NanoBio-Raise Conference, Oxford, 26 September |
| 2007 | Statistics behind a simplified streetscape design TRANSPORT STATISTICS USERS GROUP Seminar, London Underground Head Office, 18 July 2007 |
| 2007 | How does the HSE distinguish real risk from trivial risk? The future of tree risk management University of West of England, 12 July 2007 |
| 2007 | Workshop on Cultural Theory and Management European School of Management London, 5/6 July 2007 |
| 2007 | Risk Perception in a compliance culture Seminar on Improving Risk Awareness and Embedding Operational Risk Management, The Institute of Operational Risk, London, 5 July 2007 |
| 2007 | Risk and uncertainty in clinical research Friends House, UCL & UCLH, 2 July 2007 |
| 2007 | Transport and Social Exclusion Eclipse final conference, Brussels, 27 June, 2007 |
| 2007 | Compulsive Risk Assessment Psychosis AIRMIC Annual Conference London, 5 - 6 June 2007 |
| 2007 | Planning for obedient automotons or real people? Prian Public Realm Course Bedford, 24 April 2007 |
| 2007 | (The limitations of) MEASUREMENT, RISK AND SOCIETY Conference on Statisics, Science and Public Policy, Herstmonceaux Castle, 20 April, 2007 |
| 2007 | Road safety: it’s not rocket science - it’s more complicated People, place and Hampshire Highways Winchester, 27 March 2007 |
| 2006 | Risk regulation and society Guest Lecture for Conference of Independent Regulators, sponsored by the Better Regulation Commission and the National Audit Office, London, 29 November 2006 |
| 2006 | Common sense, risk and the social scientist CTPA Annual Business Forum, London, 20 November 2006 |
| 2006 | Risk: some framing devices for thinking about it Staff Seminar for Grendon Prison, 17 November, 2006 |
| 2006 | Risk management Seminar for Imperial College London, 13 November, 2006 |
| 2006 | Is Britain too risk averse? St Andrew’s University Seminar, 4 October 2006 |
| 2006 | Risk Management: it’s not rocket science – it’s more complicated News Night, BBC2, 5 June 2006 |
| 2006 | Interviewed by Jeremy Paxman on a proportionate response to terrorism News Night, BBC2, 5 June 2006 |
| 2006 | Hypermobility and the destructive pursuit of positional goods For the Positional Goods Seminar, The Young Foundation, London, 21 June 2006 |
| 2006 | Risk and Governance Presentation for meeting of the Association of Corporate Governance Professionals, London 5 June 2006 |
| 2006 | The social consequences of hypermobility 21st Meeting of European Environment and Health Committee, Oslo 15-16 May 2006 |
| 2006 | Save the planet, don’t see the world? Participant in Spiked Debate, London, 23 May 2006 |
| 2006 | Are the Dutch as mad as the English? a comparison of Dutch and English approaches to risk management Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 12 May 2006 |
| 2006 | Managing risk on the road Institute pf Highway Incorporated Engineers, 4th Annual Development Control Conference, London, 3 May 2006 |
| 2006 | Safer, Greeneer, Quicker, Cheaper: Decentralisation for Better Society? Edinburgh Science Festival, Royal Museum, 9 April 2006 |
| 2006 | Environmental Hazards and Risk Communication Royal Society Conference, London 20-21 April 2006 |
| 2006 | Risk: perception, communication and Management Seminar for European Federation of Biotechnology, Oxford, 26 March 2006 |
| 2005 | Highway Risk and Liability Claims Presentation for Conference sponsored by Institution of Civil Engineers and Department for Transport, Birmingham, 28 November 2005 |
| 2005 | A Tool Kit for Policy Makers Presentation for conference sponsored by WHO and Dutch Ministry of Transport, Den Haag, 24 November, 2005 |
| 2005 | Cycle Lanes in Urban Areas: for and against CTC/CCN Conference Warrington, 12 November |
| 2005 | The management of transport safety Annual Conference of RISIT (Risk and Safety Research Programme) University of Stavanger, 19 September 2005 |
| 2005 | Embedding the principles of risk management Presentation for UCL’s Risk Management Working Group, 14 September |
| 2005 | Fear, Psychiatry and the State North London Forensic Service, 8th International Conference, Cambridge, 12 September |
| 2005 | Challenges to Quantifying the Risks of Terrorism Technology for Security and Resilience, Conference, Royal United Services Institute London, 28, June |
| 2005 | The Management of Road Safety: risk compensation versus the crash-test dummy theory of human behaviour Lecture sponsored by Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New Jersey Dept of Transportation, US Dept of Transportation, CUNY and New York University, 24 June |
| 2005 | Risk Compensation versus the obedient automaton theory of human behaviour Presentation for Camden Cyclists Campaign, 13 June |
| 2005 | Streets and Public Places: what are we scared of? The Shared Space Conference, Ipswich, 7 June |
| 2005 | Future Challenges: Living with Risk - a speech by the Prime Minister Invited commentator along with the Lord Chancellor and the Director General of the Association of British Insurers. An Institute of Public Policy Research event, supported by the ABI,University of London 27 May 2005 |
| The impact of risk aversion on street design for 10th Annual Streetscapes Conference, Taking Risks, Reaping Rewards Royal Geographical Society 11 May 2005 |
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| Risk Perception and Communication for Occupational Health and Safety Management course Centre of Hazard and Risk Management Loughborough University 18 March 2005 |
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| Risk, Luck and Profit Lloyd’s Risk Lecture Lloyd’s Old Library 17 March 2005 |
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| Debate: “This house believes that charging is the panacea for road congestion” London Transport Museum, March 15, 2005 Proposing the motion: David Begg and Duncan Matheson Opposing the motion: Steven Norris and John Adams Motion defeated 30:2. Result significantly affected by proposer, David Begg, opposing the motion. |
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| Risk in a Hypermobile World Graduate School of the Environment Macquarie University 24 February |
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| Handling Uncertainty and Managing Risk: keeping a sense of proportion in a culture of increasing risk aversion Seminar for the NSW Premier’s Department Sydney, 23 February |
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| Risk Compensation and the management of road safety Institute of Transport and logistics University of Sydney 22 February |
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| Whose fault is it that we now have a blame culture? School of Government University of Tasmania 11 February |
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| The Risk of Terrorism Seminar for Australian Institute of International Affairs University of Tasmania 8 February |
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| Hypermobility: too much of a good thing Presentation to Conference on Sustainable Transportation in Developing Countries Abu Dhabi, 1 February |
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| Sustainable Transportation Presentation to Conference on Sustainable Transportation in Developing Countries Abu Dhabi, 29 January |
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| 2004 | Risk: three framing devices Seminar for Risk Management MSc Middlesex University, 6 December, 2004 |
| Risk: Factoring in the Human Element Presentation for 7th Risk Conference Institute of Project Management 26 November 2004 |
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| Risk and the dirty bomb LARnet (Local Authority Radiation Monitoring Network) Conference Where the wind blows and the rain falls:the story of the dirty bomb Met Office HQ, Exeter, 23 November 2004 |
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| In defence of bad luck Imperial College MSc in Env.Tech. Seminar, 2 November |
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| Do we have enough injidents?: The costs of excessive risk aversion CHIME Seminar, UCLH, 1 November 2004 |
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| Managing Risk in a Culture of Increasing Risk Aversion Institute of Risk Management annual conference Keele University 20-21 September, 2004 |
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| 2004 | Perceiving Risk Presentation for Volcanic Risk Conference University Collge London 31 August 2004 |
| Hypermobility: Further Thoughts Towards Carfree Cities Conference Berlin 19 July 2004 |
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| Biotechnology, Risk and the Problem of Trust Seminar for 1st Kluyver Centre Focus Workshop on Societal Issues in Industrial Biotechnology Brussels 25-26 June 2004 |
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| Keeping a Sense of Proportion in a Culture of Increasing Risk Aversion Presentation for European Telecommunications Resilience and Recovery Association Conference Newcastle 23 June 2004 |
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| Financial Risk: Homogeneous Heterogeneity Seminar for Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation Bakers’ Hall, Harp Lane, City of London 21 June 2004 |
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| The Culture of Increasing Risk Aversion Third International Conference On Occupational Risk Prevention, Santiago de Compostela, 2-4 June 2004 |
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| 2004 | Managing Risk in a Culture of Increasing Risk Aversion Presentation for Institute of Risk Management Conference Keele 20-21 September 2004 |
| Handling Uncertainty and Managing Risk Conference on Strategic and Contract Risk, London 16 April 2004 |
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| Handling Uncertainty and Managing Risk Seminar for European Federation of Biotechnology, Oxford, 2 April 2004 |
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| Risk Compensation ESPRC network on Risk Assessment and Perception in Design Bath 31 March 2004 |
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| Handling Uncertainty and Managing Risk in Government Seminar for the Cabinet Office 22 January 2004 |
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| 2003 | Handling Uncertainty and Managing Risk: Keeping a Sense of Proportion in a Culture of Increasing Risk Aversion For the Science Society and the Natural Science Club of UCL After dinner talk for Christmas Meeting 16 December 2003 |
| The War on Terrorism Goodenough-Chevening Conference Goodenough College, 18-19 November 2003 |
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| In defence of bad luck Imperial College MSc in Env.Tech. Seminar, 12 November 2003 |
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| The Social Consequences of Hypermobility Community Transport Association Conference, Manchester, 11 November 2003 |
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| Do we have enough injidents?: The costs of excessive risk aversion CHIME Seminar, UCLH, 3 November 2003 |
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| Handling Uncertainty and Managing Risk: Keeping a sense of proportion in a culture of increasing risk aversion Seminar for the Cabinet Office, 23 October 2003 |
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| Delivering a Fire and Rescue Service for the 21st Century Developing an Effective Approach to Risk Management QMW Public Policy Seminars for Cabinet Office, 21 October 2003 |
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| The role of risk assessment and the need for a sense of proportion Seminar for the University of Surrey, 29 September 2003 |
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| Risk assessment and the need for a sense of proportion Seminar for Roffey Park Business School, 11 August 2003 |
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| Risk assessment and the need for a sense of proportion Seminar for European Round Table, 22 August 2003 |
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| Two clumsy propositions for managing risk: The example of seat belt legislation Conference on clumsy solutions for a complex world Oxford, 2-4 April 2003 |
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| Wherever Next? Work in a Mobile World The Industrial Society & Shell International Seminar 26 April, 2001 |
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| Do new (and not so new) risks need new thinking? Can risks be managed democratically in a hypermobile society? RSA Conference, London, 2 April 2003 |
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| The role of risk assessment AHRMIO Conference on Terrorism, London, 20-21 March 2003 |
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| How can public bodies working with the public on risk management be most effective? Challenges, opportunities and pitfalls QMW Public Policy Seminars for The Cabinet Office London, 26 March 2003 |
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| How can public bodies working with the public on risk management be most effective? Challenges, opportunities and pitfalls Institute of Public Policy Research, Seminar, London, 28 February 2003 |
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| Hypermobility Talk for St. Paul’s School, 27 January 2003 |
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| 2002 | Three framing devices for thinking about risk Kings Fund Seminar, London 12 December 2002 |
| Business as Usual; Hypermobility; Sustainability? SUPRA Seminars for Scottish Executive, Edinburgh, 27 November 2002 |
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| Condoms: seat belts for sex? Aids, Risk and Globalisation Sociology Symposium, University of Sussex, 18 October 2002 |
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| Risk in a Hypermobile World: the problem of trust School of Government, University of Tasmania, August 2002 |
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| Biotechnology ethics and public perceptions of biotechnology Attitudes to risk: The costs of excessive risk aversion Presentation for European Federation of Biotechnology St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, 21 June 2002 |
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| Do we have enough injidents? The costs of excessive risk aversion WONCA Europe 2002, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 13 June 2002 |
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| An acceptable level of accidents? The Future of Construction Health and Safety: The Wider Picture Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 29 April 2002 |
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| Do we have enough injidents? The costs of excessive risk aversion Seminar for Maidstone Hospital, 19 April 2002 |
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| Understanding risk in a hypermobile world Conference on Risk and Disaster: Aviation Security, Safety and Terrorism UCL, 23 February 2002 |
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| 2001 | How will approaches to risk management change over the next 10 years? Straws in the wind Cabinet Office Seminar, 14 December 2001 |
| Hypermobility too much of a good thing RSA Lecture, 21 November 2001 |
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| GDP and traffic – can they be decoupled? and some consequences if they can’t Toward a thematic urban strategy, Ispra(I) Joint Research Centre, Italy, 13 November 2001 |
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| Do we have enough injidents? The costs of excessive risk aversion Seminar for School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 28 November 2001 |
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| System Failure: a sense of proportion needed Overestimating human error, Underestimating human malice The critical systems conference, Birmingham, 24 October 2001 |
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| Do Britain’s railways have enough accidents? Railway Safety Conference Thistle Hotel Marble Arch, 12 September 2001 |
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| The social consequences of hypermobility Geneva Seminar 17 May 2001 |
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| Do we have enough accidents? Les paradoxes du risque Université de Genève, 16 Mai 2001 |
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| Accelerating ourselves to death? Edinburgh International Science Festival Edinburgh, 17 April 2001 |
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| England: A New Deal for Transport? Or the same old ostrich Conference on Strategic Transport Planning Danish Transport Council, Copenhagen, 5 April 2001 |
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| Do we have enough accidents? Three framing devices to help with the answer Computer Science Conference, UCL, 22 March 2001 |
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| The Assessment of Societal Concerns about Risk Biotechnology ethics and public perceptions of biotechnology European Federation of Biotechnology, St Edmund Hall, Oxford, 20 March 2001 |
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| Predicting the demand for air travel RGS-IBG Conference on Policy Directions in UK Air Transport, 14 March 2001 |
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| The Assessment of Societal Concerns about Risk Health and Safety Executive Seminar, 9 February 2001 |
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| Benchmarking in a hypermobile world The state of the art of benchmarking in the transport sector BEST conference Brussels, 25-26 January 2001 |
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| Do we have enough accidents? LSE Seminar, 18 January 2001 |
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| Managing Risk in a Hypermobile World Imperial College Centre for Environmental Technology Policy Seminar, 11 January 2001 |
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| Managing Risk in a Hypermobile World The Brian Hoyle Lecture, RGS/IBG Annual Conference University of Plymouth, 3 January 2001 |
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| 2000 | From Hilaire Belloc to The Interplanetary Society Symposium in honour of the memory of Martin Mogridge UCL, 18 December 2000 |
| Virtual Risk, Seminar for the Foreign Office 25 October 2000 |
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| Do we have enough accidents? Seminar for Cambridge Computer Lab, 10 October 2000 |
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| Does Lloyds have enough accidents? Insurance and the problem of moral hazard City of London, 18 September 2000 |
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| Hypermobility and Electronic Mobility Teleworking 2000: The Transport Debate Queen Elizabeth Hall, 14 September 2000 |
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| The Precautionary Principle Edinburgh Science Festival, 15 April 2000 |
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| Seminar for the Engineering Council Working Group on Guidelines on Risk Issues 10 March 2000 |
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| The appetite for risk Conference, Merton College Oxford, 27 March 2000 |
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| Does the Prudential have enough accidents? Prudential Insurance in-house Conference Reading, 6 June 2000 |
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| 1999 | Do we have enough accidents? NVRB - University Day Delft, 16 December 1999 |
| Do we have enough accidents? 3rd Annual Risk Symposium, Project Manager Today 19 October 1999 |
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| Virtual risk and the management of uncertainty Risk assessment - a sensible or stupid notion? British and Irish Group for the study of personality disorders Imperial College London, 23 & 24 September 1999 |
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| Quantitative risk assessment: problems and limits or, Is it possible to be rational about risk? Debate with Adrian Smith, President Royal Statistical Society Royal Statistical Society Annual Conference University of Warwick, 13 July 1999 |
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| Risk, a Seminar for the Navy 19 May 1999 |
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| The Sustainability of Air Traffic Growth Trends Presentation for CAA, 15 January 1999 |
