Archive of news related to SRA-Europe and SRA

This page lists the items related to SRA Europe and SRA that have been archived.

Business / General Assembly Meeting 2013

Members are cordially invited to the business / General Assembly Meeting of SRA-Europe that will take place during the SRA-Europe conference in Trondheim, 17 – 19 June.

The meeting will be held on Tuesday 18 June, at 17.15 hours at NTNU in Trondheim.

SRA-Europe members can download the agenda for the GA meeting HERE.

The full programme for the conference 2013 in Trondheim is now available.


The programme for the conference 2013 is now available and can be downloaded here. Changes in this programme may still occur. Please see the conference website www.SRAE2013.no for the latest updates.

Please note that having an abstract accepted does not mean that you are registered for the conference! The organizers require the commitment of one of the authors to register for and attend the conference to present the paper. The author registration deadline is 28th of May 2013.

If none of the authors of an abstract have registered for the conference 28th of May 2013, the presentation will be removed from the conference program. If the presenting author is not the same person as the submitting author, please notify us by email.



Last modified: 20 May, 2013

Conference book of abstracts


The conference book of abstracts is now ready to download.

This book of abstract includes:

• Practical information
• Final conference programme
• Key note descriptions and abstracts
• Poster overview
• Abstracts

Changes in the SRA-Europe Executive Committee, June 2012

After 8 years of excellent service on the SRA-Europe committee Julie Barnett is stepping down. Julie has been our secretary for many years. We’d like to express our sincere thanks to her for all her work helping SRA-Europe run smoothly. We wish Julie all the very best in her new Professorship in Health Research at Brunel University, UK.


We are pleased to introduce two new members of the committee, Seda Kundak and Pia-Johanna Schweizer.

Seda is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning at Istanbul Technical University. She has a particular interest in Natural Hazards (including earthquakes) and Disaster Management and Mitigation. We are especially pleased to have Seda join us as we prepare the 2014 SRA-Europe meeting in Istanbul.

Pia-Johanna has a PhD in Risk Governance and the Sociology of Risk and currently works at the Interdisciplinary Research Unit of Risk Governance and Sustainable Technology Development at the University of Stuttgart. Her experience lies in the fields of risk regulation and participatory decision making.

Last Modified: 18 September, 2012

To register for the conference, click here:  https://www.organizers-events.ch/organizers/98/105593

There is a substantial discount in fees for those members that affiliated to SRA-Europe when they renewed their 2012 membership. It is not too late to benefit from this discount. If you have not renewed your 2012 membership, or indeed if you wish to become an SRA member for the first time, you can do this on the SRA website (http://www.sra.org/membership.php). Be sure to select the box to affiliate to SRA Europe - and you are then entitled to register at the Zurich meeting for the reduced fee.

For authors presenting an oral presentation or a poster, the online registration has to be completed and paid for by March 31, 2012.

The deadline for early bird registration is April 15, 2012.

Last modified: 10 March, 2012

The SRA-Europe 2012 Conference will be held at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 18 – 20 June. The special theme of this conference will be “Risk and Society: Decisions & Responsibilities”, to reflect the fact that the analysis of risk is inextricably linked to the social context.

The SRA-Europe Conference 2012 is open to all interested researchers and experts in the various field of risk analysis. Participants from industry are welcome.

The conference promises to become a very interesting event. In response to our call for papers, more than 180 individual abstracts and 14 symposia abstracts were submitted. The review process is underway.

The conference will start on Sunday evening 17th June with an opening reception and will continue until the early afternoon of Wednesday 20th June.

The welcome reception takes place at the restaurant Rigiblick on Sunday, 17th June 2012 from 6 pm to 8 pm. Attending this event will give you the opportunity to get to know the other conference participants, have a glass of wine and enjoy the beautiful view over the city and the lake of Zurich. With a bit of luck, the weather will even allow you to see a glimpse of the Alps from the restaurant’s terrace (www.restaurantrigiblick.ch/?lang=en).

Each conference day will open up with a plenary session with keynote presentations and discussions, followed by parallel sessions including oral papers, poster presentation sessions and symposia reflecting particular themes of interest. A special drinks and buffet poster session is planned on Monday evening.

A conference dinner will take place on Tuesday evening. The conference dinner will be held at the beautiful Acqua restaurant on the shore of Lake Zurich on Tuesday, 19th June 2012 at seven o’clock in the evening. The Acqua restaurant offers an impressive view of the city, the lake and the Swiss Alps. The guests can enjoy their culinary treats while watching sail boats float past. The restaurant offers a creative, fresh and light cuisine with an Italian touch. Fine wines compliment the culinary experience at the Acqua lakeside restaurant. The Acqua restaurant is literally located on the lake, resting on 64 piles. The warm interior with leather, nacre and wood is complimented by a stylish garden directly on the lake.

Confirmed Keynote speakers so far include Valerie Reyna, John Adams, John Graham, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, Michael R. Greenberg and Wolfgang Kröger.

Other invited speakers include Ortwin Renn, Ragnar Lofstedt, Raffaele Chiacchia, Bruno Merz, Roland Scholz, and Niels Holthausen.

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The preliminary program for our conference in Zurich is now available for download here.

This is a preliminary version and minor changes may be occur. A printed version of the final program will be included in the conference pack for all participants.

Last modified: 15 May 2012

Call to host the 23rd SRA-Europe Annual Meeting in 2014

The 23rd SRA-Europe Conference will be held in June, 2014. The SRA-Europe Executive Committee calls for expressions of interest to host this conference.

Hosting this conference provides an opportunity for you to present your research group, university, company or country, and to become known among the participants of SRA Europe’s conferences.

The organisation of the conference will be a shared undertaking and the SRA-Europe Executive Committee will be available for guidance and advice.

Applications from all countries in East and West Europe are welcome, but in particular those from countries that have not hosted an SRA-Europe conference in recent years.

Interested members are kindly asked to contact the SRA-secretariat at secretariat@sraeurope.org or to send an email to one of the SRA-E committee members. We will gladly answer all your questions.

Last Modified: 18 January 2012

Student Scholarship Conference 2011 awarded

We are pleased to announce the winner of the SRA-Europe Conference Scholarship 2011.

The winner is Nicolai Bodemer, Max Planck Institute for Human Development Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Harding Center for Risk Literacy.

Nicolai received his award for the presentation:

Bodemer, N., Feufel, M., & Garcia-Retamero, R.: Risk communication during a pandemic: The benefit of disclosing uncertainty.

During the business meeting of SRA-Europe at the Annual Meeting in Stuttgart, Nicolai received his award, worth € 500, out of the hands of the new President of SRA-Europe, Margôt Kuttschreuter.

Congratulations, Nicolai!

Last Modified: 28 June 2011

Get Together Drink, Sunday 5 June at 17:30

Registration to the 2011 Annual Meeting in Stuttgart is now open.

To register for the conference, click here.

Preliminary programme for the 2011 annual meeting in Stuttgart available


The preliminary schedule for the 2011 annual meeting in Stuttgart available can be downloaded here.

The order of the presentations within the symposia will be determined by the symposium organiser.

In order that we can print the final programme we need to ensure that all those that are presenting are registered at the conference. To this end, if you have not registered would you please do so by April 28 ^th.  Conference registrations can be made by clicking here.
 


Last Modified: 19 April 2011

Keynote speakers at Annual Meeting in Stuttgart

We are delighted to be able to announce that, on Monday, a keynote presentation will be given by Dr. Ellen Peters, Associate Professor at the faculty of the Psychology Department at The Ohio State University. Dr Peters is a psychologist with a special interest and expertise in the role that affective, intuitive and deliberative processes play in decision making.

The Tuesday plenary session consists of keynotes by Dr. Terje Aven, who is Professor of Risk analysis and Risk Management at University of Stavanger, Norway, and Dr. Charles Vlek, professor emeritus of environmental psychology and decision research at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

On Wednesday, in a Joint Plenary session with iNTegRisk, keynotes will be given by Professor William Leiss, Professor Eugene Rosa and Dr. Atsuo Kishimoto.

Last Modified: 23 May 2011

Multi-risk analysis in a global world

The SRA Europe Meeting in 2011 will be held from 6 – 8 June in Stuttgart, Germany. The conference aims to facilitate exchange of experiences from different disciplines, fields and application areas. The conference theme will span across the broad range of risk issues, with a special focus on 5 themes: multi-risk analysis; disaster risk management and natural hazards; emerging public health threats; perceiving and communicating risk; and governance, dialogue and engagement:

The call for papers to the conference has resulted in a very positive response. Over 150 abstracts and a number of interesting proposals for symposia have been submitted and the review process is under way. We are pleased to see so many European countries represented, as well as contributions from around the globe.

The plenary sessions will include keynote addresses from various fields of risk research. Confirmed speakers so far include Professor Ellen Peters, Professor Terje Aven, and Professor Charles Vlek.

The conference will run in parallel with the iNTeg-Risk conference on the same topic, providing delegates from SRAE the possibility to attend iNTeg-Risk sessions and vice-versa. In a Joint Plenary session with iNTegRisk, keynotes will be given by Professor William Leiss, Professor Eugene Rosa and Dr. Atsuo Kishimoto.

The conference dinner will take place on Tuesday 7th evening, providing the delegates with an opportunity to enjoy the special taste of Swabian cuisine and wine, and to mix with delegates with iNTeg-Risk conference.

Registration for the conference will open shortly and full details will be available here on the website. Remember: SRA members who choose to be affiliated to the SRA-Europe (40 dollars equalling 30 euro’s) when they renew their 2011 membership, will receive a reduction equivalent to at least 80 euro’s on the conference fee.

Please direct any questions to the local organiser at sraeurope@eu-vri.eu



Last modified: 18 May 2011

In June, 2011, two valued members of the SRA-E Executive Committee – Julie Barnett and Roberto Bubbico – will have completed their term of office and will thus step down from the Committee. To fill the vacancies in the Committee, elections will be held in the spring of 2011.

At this point, the SRA-E Executive Committee would like to bring the forthcoming election to the attention of the SRA members living in Europe. At a later stage, more details on the election process will be posted.

Last Modified: 2 December 2010

Call to host the 20th SRA-Europe Annual Meeting in 2011 

The SRA-Europe Executive Committee calls for expressions of interest to host the 20th SRA-Europe Annual Meeting. This Annual Meeting is to take place in June, 2011.

Interested members are kindly asked to contact the SRA-secretariat at secretariat@sraeurope.org or send an email to one of the SRA-E committee members.

Last Modified: 20 March 2010

Call for papers Annual Meeting 2011

The conference theme will span across a broad range of issues addressing Multi-risk analysis in a global world. The SRA-E Executive Committee welcomes abstracts for oral and symposium presentations at the conference.

Specific topics

Presentations in the following areas are particularly welcome:

• Multi-risk analysis: Issues here include identification and analysis of complex systems where risks are combined and where the implementation of risk reduction measures can generate new unexpected risks.
• Disaster risk management and natural hazards: Global warming and population growth has increased disaster risk. This theme addresses the role of modern technology and risk management in keeping individuals safe from natural and man-made disasters.
• Emerging public health threats: Recent history has witnessed a number of outbreaks of hitherto unknown human diseases. This theme focuses on the global nature of these threats and the need for collaborative responses.
• Perceiving and communicating risk: Effectively communicating risk remains a challenge. There are huge variations between publics in their appreciations of risk; traditional and social media highlight differences in expert opinions, news travels faster than ever. This theme focuses on understanding the role that these and other such factors play.
• Governance, dialogue and engagement: There are many risk issues that need to be resolved. This theme focuses on the role of dialogue and engagement in achieving agreement on risk acceptability and even in defining and assessing risk.

The deadline for submission of abstracts to the conference is Monday January 10^th, 2011. Abstracts for individual papers and posters can be submitted from the beginning of December 2010. Instructions for the submission process will be posted on www.sraeurope.org, as they come available. Symposium and round table organisers are very welcome to contact sraeurope@eu-vri.eu before the submission deadline, for feedback on their proposal. For further information: see here.

The conference language is English.

Important dates:

Receipt of abstracts: January 10, 2010
Notification to authors: February 21, 2011
Early bird registration: March 14, 2011
Programme available: May 15, 2011

Last Modified: 3 February 2011

Accommodation in the vicinity of the SRA-E conference.

Please complete the (SRA) - Europe conference registration form to secure your place at the 2010 conference.

For information on conference fees, click here.

King's College, London, UK, will host the 19th SRA-Europe Annual Meeting 21-23 June 2010.

The deadline for the submission of abstracts has been extended to January 29, 2010.

Presentations are welcomed on topics that span across the range of SRA themes, new fields of risk-related research, as well as the special conference theme of ‘Risk, Governance & Accountability’.

This special theme reflects the increasing centrality of risk analysis to decision-making in a wide range of policy and organisational contexts and the increasing demands by the public for decision-makers to account for outcomes.

Confirmed keynote speakers so far include:

• Baruch Fischhoff, Carnegie Mellon University
• Ethel Forsberg Director General, Swedish Chemicals Agency
• Alan Irwin, Copenhagen Business School
• Geoffrey Podger Director General, Health and Safety Executive
• Michael Power, London School of Economics
• Tim Smith Chief Executive, Food Standards Agency
• Kip Viscusi, Vanderbilt University

The conference is sponsored by King’s College London, the Environment Agency, the Food Standards Agency and the Health and Safety Executive. The conference language is English. The local organisers can be reached by email: SRAE@kcl.ac.uk