Professorial Lecture – Professor Shona Kelly
Tuesday 3 November at 6pm – F518, Robert Winston Building
Using my laboratory science training, I began my research career in environmental epidemiology examining the impact of pollutants, such as pesticides, on human health. Early on it became clear that people who had no detectable levels in themselves or their environment (at parts per trillion) were still sick. This lead to a body of research investigating perception of risk and my first foray into ‘stress’ research.
This work is valuable because it is not always clear how disciplinary language, outputs and expected behaviours differ dramatically between disciplines. In practice this means that many interdisciplinary projects, both within and outside of academia, founder because the participants do not understand there is another perspective, use similar jargon to describe very different phenomena and generally fail to understand each other’s needs and expectations from the project.
Places are free and include light refreshments, but must be booked in advance.