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This module presents an exciting opportunity to be taught by experts in both the Department of Science and Technology Studies, and the Institute of Risk and Disaster Reduction, and engage with the work of the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Warning Research Centre, the world’s only academic Centre dedicated to the study of warnings for both natural hazards and human made threats.
In our ‘Risk Society’ there are a number of natural and human-made threats, that often occur as multi-hazard or cascading events. Given the complex and multiple disciplines, actors, and institutions involved in these events, warnings require an inter / trans disciplinary approach to ensure silos are broken down, and that research is orientated towards real-world problems, and finding sustainable solutions, when having to manage conflicting hazard / threat requirements.Ìý

This module brings together both academic and practitioner knowledge around what warnings are, how they are designed, how they operate, and how to make warnings effective. This requires bringing a wide range of disciplines together that review disaster risk reduction for all natural hazards and human made threats, science communication, science policy, and understanding risk and uncertainly at scales from the local to the global. Whether warnings are technological, automated, community based, anticipatory, or responsive, this module explores the value of the people-centered warnings, and the need to create inclusive and multi-hazard warnings. ÌýWhilst the module explores several old and contemporary case studies, the core focus of the module is on a simulation exercise that evolves during the module providing an opportunity to put into practice the learnings from each week.
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