Peter Simmons
Socio-cultural perspectives on public understanding of risk, science and technology; participatory decision-making on risk; institutional and organisational responses to risk.
- School of Environmental Sciences
- University of East Anglia
- Norwich
- NR4 7TJ
- UK
- +44 (0) 1603 593122
Email: p.simmons“at“uea.ac.uk
Current research interests: stakeholder engagement in radioactive waste management; socio-technical challenges to geological disposal of radioactive waste; whole system equity analysis of nuclear power; the experience and management of situated risk (including both technological and natural hazards); interdisciplinarity.
Keywords: science and technology studies; public and stakeholder engagement; deliberative processes; environmental equity; sociology of risk; geographies of energy transition.