Posted on: 01 Feb 2012 in Opinions
This blog, written by Professor Ian Goldin, first appeared in The Globalist (1 Feb, 2012) When over 2000 world leaders of government, business and academia descended on Davos last month, discussions were dominated by the global economic... Read More »
Posted on: 04 Mar 2008 in Events
The seminar on “Risk and political Culture” by Professor Steve Rayner fell into two parts: He first gave an overview over major research lines within the social science of risk and then, in the second part, argued that risk cast in... Read More »
Posted on: 04 Mar 2008 in Events
The final talk in our Thursday seminar series brought the issues of risk into sharp focus looking at real life problems faced by the UK government. Our speaker was Helen Ghosh, who since 2005 has been Permanent Secretary for the Department for... Read More »
Posted on: 18 Feb 2008 in Events
Professor Sir David King, former Chief Scientific Advisor of the UK Government and the newly appointed head of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, gave his seminar on environmental challenges in the 21st Century. From his unique... Read More »
Posted on: 11 Feb 2008 in Events
It seems almost platitudinous to say that emotions and feelings are irrational and need to be corrected by reason. This view is also reflected in studies about risk perception. Quite contrary to this, Professor Sabine Roeser’s talk... Read More »
Posted on: 04 Feb 2008 in Events
In her talk entitled "Youth - a scarce commodity in an ageing world?", Professor Sarah Harper assessed the risks of an ageing society. While the first part of her talk focused on the relevant facts, the second part focused on the individua... Read More »
Posted on: 25 Jan 2008 in Events
Professor Lenny Smith's presentation was entitled: "Model Error, Real World Risk: Probabilistic Pathways but Probably not Probabilities". The meaning of this riddle of a title became clear very quickly in his talk on 24 January. ... Read More »
Posted on: 21 Jan 2008 in Events
The aim of this note is to summarise the key points from the talk by Didier Sornette (ETH, Zurich) on Endogenous and Exogenous risk on 17th January 2008 in the James Martin School seminar series. Sornette addressed the central question of how we... Read More »
Posted on: 17 Jan 2008 in Events
Our seminar series is about risks in the 21st Century, yet there are many different meanings and uses made of the word “risk”. Due to the importance of risk in modern societies, it is the subject of many fields. Psychological... Read More »
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