Outputs
Publications
- Whatmore, S.J. and Landström, C. (2011) Flood apprentices: an exercise in making things public. Economy and Society.
- Whatmore, S. and Lane, S. (2011) Connaissances controversées: exploration dans les sciences et les politiques des risques d'inondation. In, November, V. (ed.) Habiter des territoires à risque. Presses Polytechniques Universitaires Romandes, Geneva. pp. 158-185.
- Landström, C., Whatmore, S.J. and Lane, S.N. (2011) Virtual Engineering: Computer Simulation Modelling for Flood Risk Management in England. Science Studies, 24(2): 3-22.
- Landström, C., Whatmore, S.J., Lane, S.N., Odoni, N.A., Ward, N. and Bradley, S. (2011) Coproducing flood risk knowledge: redistributing expertise in critical 'participatory modelling'. Environment and Planning A, 43(7): 1617-1633.
- Lane, S.N., Landström, C. and Whatmore, S.J. (2011) Imagining flood futures: risk assessment and management in practice. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, A, 369: 1784-1806.
- Lane, S.N., Odoni, N., Landström, C., Whatmore, S.J., Ward, N. and Bradley, S. (2011) Doing flood risk science differently: an experiment in radical scientific method. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 36(1): 15-36.
- Lane, S. (2011) Making mathematical models perform in geographical spaces. In, Agnew, J.A. and D.N. Livingstone (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge, SAGE. pp. 656.
- Donaldson, A., Ward, N. and Bradley, S. (2010) Mess among disciplines: interdisciplinarity in environmental research. Environment and Planning, A, 42(7): 1521-1536.
- Lane, S. and Odoni, N. (2010) Knowledge-theoretic models in hydrology. Progress in Physical Geography, 34(2): 151-171.
- Whatmore, S.J. and Landström, C. (2010) Manning's n: putting roughness to work. In, Howlett, P. and M. Morgan (eds.) How well do facts travel? The dissemination of reliable knowledge. CUP, Cambridge. pp. 111-135.
- Whatmore, S. (2009) Mapping Knowledge Controversies: science, democracy and the redistribution of expertise. Progress in Human Geography, 33(5): 587-598.
- Whatmore, S., Landström, C. and Bradley, S. (2008) Democratising science. Science and Public Affairs, British Association for the Advancement of Science, June: 17.
Media coverage
- Stuart Lane interviewed on Radio 4 Farming Today, 27th June 2007
- Neil Ward interviewed on Radio 4 Westminster, October 2007
- Stuart Lane interview with Nick Higham of BBC News 24, 7th November 2007
Activities
- Team Training Events
30th April - 4th May (Oxford and Sussex), 14th - 18th May 2007 (Durham and Malton)
- Advisory Panel
First Advisory Panel meeting. Oxford, July 2007.
- EPFL, Lausanne
Project team visit to EPFL. March 2008.
- Advisory Panel
Second Advisory Panel meeting. Arundel, September 2008.
- Ryedale Exhibition
Flooding - can local knowledge make a difference? 28th October 2008, Pickering Memorial Hall.
- Swedish Environmental Agency - Stockholm
Project team visit hosted by Katarina Schough of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. May 2009.
- Project Conference - Oxford
Held at St Anne's College, Oxford, with an invited audience of academics, stakeholders, and Competency Group members. December 2009.
Presentations
- ESRC interdisciplinarity symposium
February 2007, Oxford
Sarah Whatmore presented "Between earth and life: geography as an inter-discipline"
- People and the Rural Environment Forum
19th March 2007, London
Sarah Whatmore presented a paper on Understanding Environmental Knowledge Controversies at the 3rd RELU People and the Rural Environment Forum.
- ALSIS symposium, "What is scientific about social science"?
March 2007, Royal Society
Sarah Whatmore presented "Knowledge multiple: from science of society to science in society"
- Invited keynote lecture at the Centre for Interdisciplinarity Research symposium on "From lab to field: transforming research practices"
May 2007, Bielefeld University, Germany
Sarah Whatmore presented "Environmental Knowledge Controversies - Trying things out"
- Centre for Interdisciplinarity
September 2007, University of Birmingham
Sarah Whatmore presented "Environmental knowledge controversies - science, democracy and the redistribution of expertise"
- Connecting People, Participation and Place
January 2008, Durham University
Neil Ward and Sue Bradley presented "Testimonies of engagement: life history methods in participatory environmental research"
- Flooding, Water and the Landscape
March 2008, University of Sheffield
Stuart Lane presented keynote speech
- AAG
March 2008, Boston
Sarah Whatmore presented "Affective materials: Thinking through flooding".
Catharina Landström presented "Virtual Engineering: the political technologies of flood risk modelling"
- European Geosciences Union meeting
April 2008, Vienna
Stuart Lane and Nick Odoni presented "Environmental Competency Groups: the case of flood risk modelling"
- European Geosciences Union meeting
April 2008, Vienna
Stuart Lane and Nick Odoni presented "Dynamic channel networks and non-linear runoff response"
- European Geosciences Union meeting
April 2008, Vienna
Nick Odoni and Stuart Lane presented "Data-theoretic approaches to modelling catchment management impacts on flood magnitude"
- Life histories of facts
April 2008, LSE
Sarah Whatmore and Catharina Landström presented "Manning's n: a fact packaged for travel"
- University of Hull
May 2008, Department of Geography LSE
Sarah Whatmore presented "Trying things out: an experimental intervention in the science and politics of flood risk"
- 4S/EASST Conference
August 2008, Rotterdam
Catharina Landström presented "Trying things out: an experimental intervention in the science and politics of flood risk."
- RGS/IBG annual conference
September 2008,London
Sarah Whatmore presented the Plenary Lecture (sponsored by Edward Arnold Publishers) entitled "Mapping environmental knowledge controversies:Science, Democracy and Redistribution of Expertise"
Catharina Landström presented "Beyond mess”: ethnography of science and engineering in the age of computer modelling"
- Environment Agency breakfast briefing
September 2008, Cardiff
Sarah Whatmore and Catharina Landström presented "Flood modelling with local publics"
- Distinguished International Guest Lecture
December 2008,University of New South Wales, Australia
Sarah Whatmore presented "Trying things out: an experimental intervention in the science and politics of flood risk"
- Distinguished Guest Lecture
March 2008, Queen's University, Canada
Sarah Whatmore presented ‘Environmental knowledge controversies: science, democracy and the redistribution of expertise’.
- European Geosciences Union meeting
April 2009, Vienna
Stuart Lane presented "Repositioning social science in natural hazards research: key themes"
- European Geosciences Union meeting
April 2009, Vienna
Stuart Lane presented "Repositioning social science in natural hazards research: case-study"
- ESRC-NERC Natural Hazards Workshop
May 2009, University of East Anglia
Stuart Lane presented "Doing flood risk science differently"
- RELU Annual Conference, The Future of Rural Land Use
June 2009, London
Stuart Lane presented "The Case for Flooding"
- Invited Key Note Lecture at the Great North Meet of the Royal Agricultural Society
June 2009
Stuart Lane presented "The Case for Flooding"
- Keynote Lecture at the 3rd Nordic Geographers' Conference on "Change:Society, environment and science in transition"
June 2009, University of Turku, Finland
Sarah Whatmore presented "Mapping knowledge controversies: environmental science, democracy and the redistribution of expertise".
- Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference
June 2009, UCL, London
Catharina Landström presented "Modes of modelling. A comparison of consultant and academic research practices".
- RGS-IGB Annual Conference
August 2009, Manchester
Catharina Landström presented "The accidental model. An experiment in upstream public engagement with science" and chaired two sessions.
- RGS-IGB Annual Conference
August 2009, Manchester
Anders Munk presented "Mapping the risk, risking the map?" in a session co-organised with Catharina Landström.
- Invited plenary lecture at the Society for Cultural Anthropology bi-annual meeting on "Natureculture:entangled relations of multiplicity"
May 2010, Santa Fe
Sarah Whatmore is to present "Affective environments: thinking through flooding".