Lucy Easthope is a professor in practice of risk and hazard at the University of Durham and a leading authority on emergency planning and recovering from disaster. Lucy has advised on major disasters over the last decades including the 2004 tsunami, 9/11, the Salisbury poisonings, Grenfell, and the Covid pandemic. She challenges others to think differently about what comes next after tragic events, and how to plan for future ones. Her book When the Dust Settles is both memoir of her life in disaster recovery and a personal journey through life, love and loss.
Lucy suggests that the audience may wish to listen to her contributions to two BBC Inside Science podcasts prior to the event, to facilitate
questions and discussion. These are:
- Can we prevent natural disasters? (BBC Radio 4, 11th May 2023)
- How will climate change affect where we can live? (BBC Radio 4, 31st August 2023)
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