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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
Fostering Resilient Recovery in Displaced Communities via School-based Hubs (PI with Prof. Tiziana Rossetto, UCL, CEGE, Dr Carmine Galasso UCL, CEGE, Dr Priti Parikh, UCL, Bartlett and an Indonesian team) ESRCEarthquake and People Interaction Centre (with Dr Tiziana Rossetto, UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering) EPSRC
Teaching summary
Course Co-ordinator
Education
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- Doctorate, Doctor of Philosophy | 1993
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- Other higher degree, Master of Science | 1987
- University of the Witwatersrand
- First Degree, Bachelor of Arts | 1985
Biography
Selected Media
- On BBC 7pm news (7 March, 2020) and BBC.com (4 March, 2020) Coronavirus: The psychology of panic buying - BBC Worklife
- 'I’ newspaper https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/coronavirus-uk-psychology-risk-covid-19-2016305
- Podcasts https://www.labtube.tv/video/the-problem-with-neuromyths;
https://www.labtube.tv/video/the-public-perception-of-neuroscience;
https://www.labtube.tv/video/how-the-media-and-the-public-influence-neuroscience
- 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
- Article for the 'New Humanist': Review of 'The Unthinkable' by Amanda Ripley https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/1796/the-unthinkable-by-amanda-ripley
