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Description
Content: The focus of the module is on how people in different cultures think, feel and behave in relation to the range of risks that face them.
Teaching delivery: This module is taught in 15 hours of in-person lectures spread over 10 teaching weeks (usually in the format of 5 2-hour sessions in one half of term and 5 1-hour lectures in the other half of term).
Indicative Topics: Indicative lecture topics 鈥� based on module content in 2023/24, subject to possible changes: Introduction to the module & to the concept of risk, Risk perception, Risk representation, How publics engage with emerging infectious diseases, How publics engage with climate change, How publics engage with natural hazards, Risk and the new media, Campaigns to change risk-related representations and behaviours (2 parts) and Revision session.
Module Aims: The module aims to equip students to focus on forces that shape people's responses to risks, including how they conceptualise such risks and how they prepare for them. The lectures provide guided reading with the intention that students develop their own interests within the field.
The objectives are to:
- engage you in the understanding of risk and the perception thereof
- highlight the utility of alternative conceptualisations of risk and of perception
- impart two theories of the human response to risk
- delve into human responses to mass risks, in the main climate change, emerging infectious diseases and natural hazards
- offer evidence-based ingredients for the communication of such risks in national campaigns
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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