Communicating Difficult Messages Well: Hazard, Risk and Uncertainty

Time

12:00 BST

About

The workshop will focus on communicating risk, uncertainty, and potentially difficult messages associated with hazardous natural phenomena and their impacts. We are bringing together a small group of experienced contributors and discussants, alongside a wider group of participants, including researchers, hazard and risk specialists, resilience and emergency managers, journalists, science communicators, media professionals, social scientists, and decision-makers. 

The format will combine short case-study presentations with focused group discussions and collective plenary discussion, supported by guiding questions circulated in advance. The event will include approximately 12–16 contributors, alongside 10–12 discussants. Contributors will give short presentations that engage with the guiding questions. Discussants will read the guiding questions in advance and contribute actively to the discussions.

This discussion workshop programme is being planned on the assumption that participants will attend the full programme from noon on Monday 7 September to noon on Tuesday 8 September 2026.

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