Centre for Environmental Risk (CER)

Located in the UK's leading School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, CER's research activity spans a wide range of disciplines from Environmental Sciences through to Geography, Sociology and Social Psychology. Over the last decade CER has been at the forefront of UK research into the relationships between scientific risk assessment, risk policy and its communication, in public perception of risk, innovative methodologies, epidemiology and public health, geographic information systems and risk modelling, and toxicology.

CER NEWS

We are pleased to announce that Professor Jacquie Burgess is the new Director of CER.

Jacquie has an international reputation as a cultural geographer. Her research focuses on the way in which culture mediates relationships between environment and society. In addition to her innovative work on the use of group and deliberative processes at the interface between citizens, science and policy, she is also engaged in work that aims to bring about change in environmentally significant consumption behaviours. Jacquie's appointment will be the focus of a number of exciting new developments, which will build on CER's existing strengths. Developments include an expanded and strengthened MRes degree that will provide postgraduate research training for intending researchers in the environmental social sciences and which will be closely integrated with the School's evolving research programme.

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