Prof Carina Fearnley named on The Standard 100

On 31st October 2024, The London Standard unveiled The Standard 100, their first list of the top hundred people shaping the capital in 2024, taking after the long-standing Progress 1000 list that ranked London’s most influential people until 2019. The list is unveiled as a celebratory feature of the key players across a wide number of categories including science and medicine, media and fashion, sport, food, amongst others, curated by The London Standard’s editorial team. Professor Carina Fearnley from the Department of Science and Technology Studies at UCL, was selected as one of six listed in the Science & Medicine category. As the sole representative of UCL in this category, The Standard noted that:

As the world prepares to face the impact of climate change – and scrambles for solutions – Londoners can feel a little safer knowing someone has now been appointed Professor of Warnings and Science Communication at UCL. That someone is Carina Fearnley.

The Standard 100: People shaping London in Science & Medicine and Environment

Carina founded the Warning Research Centre (WRC) at UCL in 2020, making it unique in bringing together global expertise to explore the role of warnings in managing vulnerabilities, hazards, risks, and disasters. The WRC brings together warning expertise at universities globally to work with businesses, government, non-governmental, and intergovernmental organisations to address the growing need for effective warning and alert systems via cutting-edge research, policy guidance, applications, and collaborative expertise. The WRC is transforming research into warnings and alert solutions by being strongly interdisciplinary and innovative.

On being included in the 2024 list, Carina commented that: ‘it is a great honour and privilege to be selected in the Standard 100 people shaping London. UCL is London’s global university and is world leading due to the vibrant and diverse communities in London, that have led and challenged the way things have been done for centuries. The Warning Research Centre is the only centre of its type globally and it is wonderful to be recognised for the work we have put into trying to raise the importance of warnings in both natural and human-made threats. This is even more pertinent following the recent failure of warnings across Spain that resulted in over 200 people losing their life. There is so much more work to be done and with climate change, warnings are needed more than ever to keep people and their communities, businesses, and critical facilities safe’.

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