Career Overview
2004 - Senior lecturer, Risk Management and Decision Analysis, Middlesex University
2001 - Co-ordinator, Centre for Decision Analysis and Risk Management, Middlesex University
1997 - 2004 Research Fellow, Urban Pollution Research Centre, Middlesex University. .
1994 - 1997 Research Fellow, Middlesex University, half time.
1990 ‑ 1997 Imperial College (RA 1A) (half time from 1994)
1987 ‑ 1990 Founder and Managing Director, Particle Characterisation Services, Ltd
1979 ‑ 1986. Research Assistant, Applied Geochemistry Research Group at Imperial College, London.
Appointments, Membership of Professional Bodies and Learned Societies
Selected Recent Public Output from Research and Scholarly Activity
Books
Watt, J., Tidblad, J., Kucera, V. and Hamilton, R. (2009) The Effects of Air Pollution on Cultural Heritage, Springer. 306pp
Book chapters
Watt, J., Navrud, S., Drdácký, M. and Yates, T. (2009) Economic Evaluation. In Watt, J., Tidblad, J., Kucera, V. and Hamilton, R. (2009) The Effects of Air Pollution on Cultural Heritage, Springer, pp189-214 Watt, J., Doytchinov, S., Lefèvre, R-A., Ionescu, A., de la Fuente, D. and Drdácký, M. (2009) Stock at Risk. In Watt, J., Tidblad, J., Kucera, V. and Hamilton, R. (2009) The Effects of Air Pollution on Cultural Heritage, Springer, pp 147-188 Watt, J., Hamilton, R., Lefèvre, R-A and Ionescu, A. Soiling. In Watt, J., Tidblad, J., Kucera, V. and Hamilton, R. (2009) The Effects of Air Pollution on Cultural Heritage, Springer pp105-126 Watt, J. (2007) Strategic Risk Management for Small Businesses. In Managing Business Risk 4th Edition. J. Reuvid (ed) Kogan Page. ISBN 10 0 7494 4949 7. 31-40 Watt, J. and Hamilton, R. (2003) Soiling of Buildings by Particulate Matter. In: The Effects of Air Pollution on the Built Environment (Air Pollution Reviews) P. Brimblecombe (ed) Imperial College Press; ISBN: 1860942911 289-334
Peer reviewed research articles
Watt, J. (2011) A risk management interpretation of a series of studies of exposure to lead. Applied Geochemistry (accepted)
Watt J, Jarrett D and Hamilton R (2008) Dose-Response functions for the soiling of materials due to air pollution exposure. Sci Total Env 400: 415-424
Watt, J. (2007) The Management of Risk with respect to Cultural Heritage – A Case Study. Arboricultural Journal. 30: 175- 185
Ferm, M., Watt, J., O'Hanlon, S., De Santis, F. and Varotsos, C. (2006) Deposition Measurement of Particulate Matter in Connection with Corrosion Studies. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 384: 1320-1330
McGill, R.A.R., Pearce, J.M., Fortey, N.J., Watt, J., Ault, L. and Parrish, R.R. (2003) Contaminant source apportionment by PIMMS lead isotope analysis and SEM-image analysis Environmental Geochemistry and Health 25: 25-32
Langmi, H. W. and Watt, J. (2003) Evaluation of computer-controlled SEM in the study of metal-contaminated soils. Mineralogical Magazine, 67: 219-231
Kendall, M., Hamilton, R. S., Watt J. and Williams I. D. (2001) Characterization of Selected Speciated Organic Compounds Associated with Particulate Matter in London. Atmospheric Environment 35: 2483-2495
Refereed and published conference proceedings
Watt, J., Andrews, E., Machin, N., Hamilton, R., Beevers, S., Dajnak, D., Guinart, X. and De la Viesca and Cosgrove, P. (2007) Cultural Heritage Stock at Risk from Air Pollution in G.M. Morrison and S. Rauch (eds) Highway and Urban Pollution – Proceedings of the 8th Highway and Urban Environment Symposium, pp 223-232
Ferm, M., DeSantis, F., Varotsos, C., Watt, J. and O'Hanlon, S. (2005) New Sampling Methods for Particulate Matter and Nitric Acid. Proceedings of Workshop Cultural Heritage in the City of Tomorrow; Developing Policies to Manage Continuing Risk from Air Pollution, Kucera, V., Tidblad, J. and Hamilton, R. (Eds) Swedish Corrosion Institute, pp 177-187
O'Hanlon, S., Watt, J. and Hamilton, R. (2005) The Soiling of Cultural Heritage Materials. Proceedings of Workshop Cultural Heritage in the City of Tomorrow; Developing Policies to Manage Continuing Risk from Air Pollution, Kucera, V., Tidblad, J. and Hamilton, R. (Eds) Swedish Corrosion Institute, pp 201-212
Watt, J., O'Hanlon, S. and Hamilton, R.S. (2004) Field studies to examine effects of particulate matter of different origin on building soiling in multipollutant environments – preliminary results from the multi-assess project in London. In Saiz-Jimenez, C. (Ed) "Air Pollution and Cultural Heritage" Balkema. 215-220
O'Hanlon, S., Watt, J. and. Hamilton R.S. (2003) The Effects of Particulate Matter on Cultural Heritage Damage at European Aerosol Conference, Madrid, 215-220
Ball, D and Watt, J. (2001) Risk Management and Cultural Heritage at ARIADNE 4 – Vulnerability of cultural heritage to hazards and prevention measures Prague, CZ, 571-5
Watt J., Massey, S., and Kendall, M. (2000) Fractal Modelling of Particulate Deposition in the Development of Black Crusts on Stone. In Proc. 9th International Congress on Deterioration and Conservation of Stone, Venice, 19-20 June 637-646
Other refereed and/or non-published conference contributions
Watt, J and Hunt, A, (2010) Metals in residential dusts: a review at SEGH 2010 International Conference and Workshops of the Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health (SEGH, on Environmental Quality and Human Health will be held in Galway, Ireland during June 27-July 2
Watt, J (2010) Risk management in relation to contamination. at SEGH 2010 International Conference and Workshops of the Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health (SEGH, on Environmental Quality and Human Health will be held in Galway, Ireland during June 27-July 2
Watt, J (2010) Risk Decision Making and Management of Cultural Heritage. Keynote presentation at International Symposium on Global Climate Change and Cultural Property Conservation. (Tainan, Taiwan, October 2010)
Watt, J., Ball, D. and Neville Fay, N. (2008) The Role of Public Safety in the Sustainable Risk Management of Urban Trees. At SRA Annual Meeting, Boston, December 8-10
Watt, J., and Corr, L. (2008) Insights into the future of risk education from a survey of SRA members
At SRA Annual Meeting, Boston, December 8-10
Watt, J. (2008) Development of a Post Graduate Curriculum in Risk Management. At SRA Annual Meeting, Boston, December 8-10
Watt, J. (2007) Development of a Post Graduate Curriculum in Risk Management. Invited paper at International Symposium on Risk Management Education: "Building the Platform for Training Risk Managers" Nakanojima Center, Osaka University, 14 February.
O'Hanlon, S., Watt, J. and. Hamilton R.S. (2003) the Effects of Particulate Matter on Cultural Heritage Damage at European Aerosol Conference, Madrid, August
Ball, D and Watt, J. (2001) Risk Management and Cultural Heritage at ARIADNE 4 – Vulnerability of cultural heritage to hazards and prevention measures Prague, CZ, August 18-24
Kendall, M., Hamilton, R, Duarte, A., Teresa Rocha-Santos, T., Watt, J. and Ian Williams, I. (2000) Particulate-Associated Elemental and Total Organic Carbon at Two Sites in London. Seventh International Conference on Carbonaceous Particles in the Atmosphere (Iccpa 2000) San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 26-29
Watt, J. and Ball, D. (2000) Charisma: cultural heritage, access and risk management. 4th European Conference on Research for Protection, Conservation and Enhancement of Cultural Heritage: Opportunities for European enterprises. Strasbourg, 22-24 November.
I am Programme leader for MSc Risk Management.
I use a wide range of techniques to facilitate learning in my students. Formal lectures are supplemented by workshops, laboratory classes, field trips and practical case studies. The Risk Management MSc course has received very positive feedback from its external examiners for the integration of syllabus, learning outcomes and assessment. The assessment process itself has also been praised for its use of different methods (coursework and exams are supplemented by assessed presentations, site visit reports and team projects). In addition to integrating my experience as an environmental science researcher into appropriate parts of the more general risk programme, I have also developed a research interest in the future progress of risk curricula throughout the world. This has obvious benefits for my own programme and ensures a thorough integration of research and teaching, which keeps our curriculum at the forefront of developments in the subject area. My research experience is also utilised by my department since I teach on the research methods modules at levels 2 and 4 and run the MSc Projects module. This enables me to look after the research learning needs of students both in groups and individually.
My teaching covers:
The majority of my research to date has been concerned with the detection, measurement and significance of particulate matter. This has resulted in publications in multiple fields - on the sources of lead and resultant exposure of young children, on pollution of surface waters by power station fly-ash, on soiling and corrosion of built cultural heritage and also on policy implications of the above (including cost/benefit analysis and risk assessment. I have always been, essentially, an environmental scientist, though my current research has widened to include other aspects of risk management, including research into post graduate education in the field. I am utilising models of risk governance in a number of fields risk management of public safety, cultural heritage and risk education.
I currently supervise three PhD students, Khadijah Isimekhai, Justin Okoli, Natasha Oyibo, and four Dprof students BillHunt, (as advisor) Cornelia Bohǎlţeanu (as advisor), Ben Witchalls (as consultant) and Andrew Kemp (as consultant)
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