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Prof Helene Joffe
Professor of Psychology
Clinical, Edu & Hlth Psychology
Div of Psychology & Lang Sciences
- Joined UCL
- 1st Sep 1995
Research summary
Active Research Projects
Transforming the Engineering of Cities to Deliver Societal and Planetary Wellbeing (Professors Nick Tyler, Brian Collins and Francesca Medda at UCL and colleagues at Birmingham, Lancaster and Southampton) EPSRC.Challenging Risk: Achieving Resilience by Integrating Societal and Technical Knowledge (with Professors Tiziana Rossetto and Muki Haklay at UCL and Professor Luke Bisby at Edinburgh) EPSRC
Earthquake and People Interaction Centre (with Dr Tiziana Rossetto, UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering) EPSRC
Teaching summary
Course Co-ordinator
- PSYC3109 - Social Psychology of Risk (3rd Year BSc Psychology, MSc Psychology)
- PSYCGR08 - Qualitative Methods (MSc in Research Methods)
Education
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- , | 1993
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- , | 1987
- University of the Witwatersrand
- , | 1985
Biography
Selected Media
- Cultural barriers to earthquake preparedness.
http://www.rmmagazine.com/author/helene-joffe/ - New Scientist article on the response to the Japanese Earthquake March 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20267-japanese-fatalistic-about-risk-of-death-from-earthquake.html#.VQlo5rFFBaQ - TEDxUCL talk: Distancing the self from risk: AIDS, earthquakes and climate change July 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW0xvA7zNKI
City on the Couch January 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04wth5g
