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Petts, Judith: transcript of an audio interview (10-Dec-2015)
No full textInterview with Professor Judith Petts, conducted by Ms Lynda Finn, for the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, 10 December 2015, in the University of Southampton. Transcribed by Mrs Debra Gee, and edited by Professor Tilli Tansey. The editorial assistance, the project management and the technical support were undertaken by Ms Fiona Plowman, Mr Adam Wilkinson and Mr Alan Yabsley, respectively. Professor Judith Petts CBE PhD AcSS FRGS FRSA (b. 1954) graduated in Geography from Exeter University in 1975. After a few years in business she became a research fellow in the Institute for Planning Studies, University of Nottingham and then in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University on a project on major hazard control. In 1987 she moved into the Centre for Extension Studies taking over a series of post experience short courses, and developing the first postgraduate part-time course, in hazardous waste management. In 1996, she became Director of the renamed Centre for Hazard and Risk Management and was awarded her PhD by publication. In 1999, she moved to the University of Birmingham to become Professor in Environmental Risk Management, then Head of the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences and in 2007 Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Knowledge Transfer). In 2010 she moved to the University of Southampton as Dean of the Faculty for Social and Human Sciences and then Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise). She has held multiple advisory appointments including to a House of Commons enquiry on waste management, she was member of NERC Council (2000-6), and of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (2005-11). She was a Member of Defra’s Science Advisory Council (until February 2016); Co-Chair of the BIS Sciencewise Steering Group and Chair of the Defra/DECC Social Science Expert Panel. For 10 years she was a Member of Veolia’s Advisory Board. She was appointed CBE in 2012 for services to scientific research. Professor Petts moved to take up her appointment as Vice-Chancellor of Plymouth University in February 2016. Currently she is a Member of BBSRC Council, a Trustee of the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, and of the RCUK Public Engagement in Research Advisory Panel and of NRFC’s Innovation Advisory Board.The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group is funded by the Wellcome Trust, which is a registered charity (no. 210183). The current interview has been funded by the Wellcome Trust Strategic Award entitled “Makers of modern biomedicine: testimonies and legacy” (2012-2017; awarded to Professor Tilli Tansey)
The story mapping project: Celebrating the history of the Comox Valley through the stories of its residents
No full textThe Story Mapping Project is an initiative of the Comox Valley Community Arts Council, in partnership with the Comox Valley Art Gallery. The Kamloops CURA group in particular Dr. Will Garrett Petts and Donald Lawrence collaborated on this project. The exhibition contains 94 maps that were drawn by citizens of the Comox Valley. They range in content from intensely personal narratives to more objective descriptions of a time and place.Not peer reviewedbookCommunity-University Research Allianc
Relating surficial regolith-landform attributes to 3d regolith architecture: preliminary thoughts and concepts
No full textA. Petts & S.M. Hillhttp://crcleme.org.au/Pubs
Regolith-landforms and mapping of the Coyote Au Deposit, Tanami Desert, Northern Territory
No full textA.E. Petts & S.M. Hil
The Story Mapping Project: Celebrating the history of the Comox Valley through the stories of its residents
No full textThe Story Mapping Project is an initiative of the Comox Valley Community Arts Council, in partnership with the Comox Valley Art Gallery. The Kamloops CURA group in particular Dr. Will Garrett Petts and Donald Lawrence collaborated on this project. The exhibition contains 94 maps that were drawn by citizens of the Comox Valley. They range in content from intensely personal narratives to more objective descriptions of a time and place.Not peer reviewedbookCommunity-University Research Allianc
Public engagement to build trust: false hopes?
No full textPublic engagement through deliberative processes is promoted in both academic and policy circles as a potential means to build public trust in risk decisions and decision-makers. Governments in particular seem to optimistically take a positive relationship between public engagement and trust almost for granted. This paper provides a new and critical analysis of this hoped-for relationship, questioning whether such a direct and positive link between engagement and trust is a false hope. The paper draws upon personal experience of deliberative processes to discuss key components of an engagement process that have the potential to impact positively on trust. Specifically, who is engaged and which interests are represented; an open and collaborative framing of the discussion, and a direct and clear relationship between engagement and the risk decision. But the paper argues that given the complexities of optimising these process elements and in the light of the known underlying dimensions of trust, expectations are misplaced and that enduring trust is unlikely to spring from engagement itself. This is not to negate the other benefits of engagement, rather it is to focus on those key elements that will need to be in place, both process and beyond, if trust is to be enhanced
Professor Geoffrey Petts (1953-2018): An outstanding interdisciplinary river scientist
No full textThis paper provides an introduction and an editorial to this special issue of River Research and Applications by documenting the contributions made by Professor Geoffrey Petts to our interdisciplinary understanding of the functioning of rivers and their floodplains and their sustainable management. We outline Geoff’s career, which framed not only his research but its communication through his inspirational teaching but also included very high level and innovative contributions to the management and development of several UK universities. We then explain how and why Geoff was an outstanding interdisciplinary river scientist and how he communicated his science through both integrative books and book chapters and also research papers that developed eight complementary research themes. Lastly we introduce the papers in this special issue and show how they provide inputs to all eight of Geoff’s areas of research interest
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