Dr S Gerrard

Dr Simon Gerrard is Deputy Director of the Centre for Environmental Risk at the University of East Anglia. His particular area of research is in risk communication. Dr Gerrard has been an expert advisor to the WHO and FAO on risk perception and communication matters and was the first Director of the WHO-inspired European Risk Communication Network funded in part by the UK Electricity Association. He is the project leader for the risk communication and trust element of the Programme on Understanding Risk, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. His research within the Programme focuses on three main case study areas: waste disposal (including radioactive wastes), mobile phones and climate change. The key themes within these areas are the communication of uncertainty and its impact on trust; the evaluation of risk communication initiatives; and the role of risk communication within the strategic development of open decision-making. Dr Gerrard is involved in the UK element of the HERMES research project which is seeking to develop a European perspective on the management of base stations.