Dr Sally Priest
Senior Research Fellow
Department: Health and Social Sciences
Contact
- Telephone: +44 (0) 208 411 5527
- E-mail: s.priest@mdx.ac.uk
Qualifications
BSc (Hons), PGCert, PhD, FRGS
Research Interests
Sally’s PhD focussed on the study of floodplain management in the UK and New South Wales, Australia, and the interrelationships between the different mechanisms and institutions managing the risk of flooding. In particular she focussed on the role of recovery mechanisms and the insurance industry. Building on this work, Sally remains interested in different aspects of social responses to, and the understanding of, risk and is keen to investigate cultural influences on flood perception. She is also interested in the effectiveness of public information in raising awareness about flooding and the influence that it has on attitudes and behaviour. In June 2008, Sally also completed an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded Small Grant project entitled “Public awareness of flood risk: The role of the Environment Agency Flood Map.”
Current Research:
- RISKMAP - Improving Flood Risk Maps as a Means to Foster Public Participation and Raising Flood Risk Awareness: Toward Flood Resilient Communities (CRUE ERA-NET). http://www.risk-map.org/.
Postgraduate Supervision:
2009-2012: Meghan Alexander 'Social Vulnerability, Flooding and Risk Communication: Developing tailored GIS-based decision support systems and emergency flood incident management'.
2011-2014: Thomas Thaler ‘Governance and responsibility in flood risk management in Europe’
Biography
Sally joined the centre as a Research Fellow in January 2007. She worked on the EC-funded FLOODsite project particularly focussing on researching innovative methods to understand, model and evaluate flood damages and other flood losses and the development of a risk to life model for European flood events. Sally currently works on a number of projects including SPICOSA (Science and Policy Integration for Coastal Systems Assessment) an EC-funded project exploring the challenges and opportunities for science and policy integration in a systems approach to coastal management. Recently, she has been the project manager of an Environment Agency funded project scoping the potential for introducing surface water flood warnings in England and Wales and contributed to another Environment Agency funded project on assessing the collection and management of data on the social aspects of flooding. Sally is also leading FHRC’s contribution to one of the seven projects funded under the second European-funded CRUE ERA-NET programme entitled RISKMAP. The aim of this two-year project is to examine ways to improve flood risk maps as a means to foster public participation and raise flood risk awareness.
Selected Publications:
Chatterton , J., Penning-Rowsell E, and Priest S. (in press) The many uncertainties in flood loss assessments in Hall, J and Beven, K. Applied Uncertainty Analysis for Flood Risk Management, World Scientific Publishing.
V. Meyer, S.J. Priest and C. Kuhlicke (In press) Economic evaluation of the structural and non-structural flood risk management measures – examples from the Mulde River. Natural Hazards
Priest S.J.,Parker, D.J., Hurford, A.P., Walker, J. and Evans, K. (in press) Developing and assessing options for surface water flooding in England and Wales, Journal of Environmental Management, DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2011.06.041
Priest, S.J., Parker, D.J. and Tapsell, S.M. (2011) Modelling the potential damage reducing benefits of flood warnings using European cases, Environmental Hazards, 10, 2, p101-120.
A. P. Hurford, SJ Priest, D.J. Parker and D. Lumbroso (2011) The effectiveness of Extreme Rainfall Alerts as surface water flood warnings in England and Wales. International Journal of Climatology, Published online DOI: 10.1002/joc2391
D.J. Parker, S.J. Priest and S.S. McCarthy (2011) Exploring surface water flood warning requirements and potential in England and Wales. Applied Geography, 31, 891-900.
Parker, D.J., Priest S. J. and Tapsell, S. M. (2009) Understanding and enhancing the public's behavioural response to flood warning information, Meteorological Applications, 16, p103-114.
Johnson, C. and Priest, S.J. (2008) Flood risk management in England: a changing landscape of risk responsibility? International Journal of Water Resources Development, 24 (4), 513-525.
Priest, S.J., Clark, M.J. and Colclough, S. (2008) Public awareness of flood risk: The Role of the Environment Agency Flood Map - Nominated report submitted to the ESRC, June 2008. Available online at http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk.
Treby, E.J., Clark, M.J. and Priest, S.J. (2006) Confronting flood risk: insurance as a barrier to risk transfer, Journal of Environmental Management, 81 (4), p351-359.
Priest, S.J.,Clark, M.J. and Treby, E.J. (2005) UK Flood insurance: the challenge of the uninsured, Area, 37 (3) p295-302.
Priest, S.J.(2003) Responding to flood risk in the UK: A strategic Reappraisal, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Geography, University of Southampton, pp354.
Clark, M.J., Priest, S.J., Treby, E.J. and Crichton, D. (2002) Insurance and UK Floods: A Strategic Reassessment, Report of the TSUNAMI - Linking Insurance and Science Initiative, University of Southampton, Southampton, pp107.
