English Team
Middlesex University
Sally Priest
Associate professor, Flood Hazard Research Centre
Sally is an associate professor and the Head of Flood Hazard Research Centre at the Middlesex University. She has a geographical background and holds a PhD (2003) from the School of Geography at the University of Southampton examining changes to responses to flood risk in the United Kingdom with a specific focus on insurance and recovery. Adopting both qualitative and quantitative social science techniques, Sally has researched various different aspects of social responses to and the understanding of risk; including the effectiveness of public information in raising awareness about flooding and the influence that it has on attitudes and behaviour, flood warning responses and the benefits of flood warning, economic impacts of flooding and more recently the strengths and weaknesses of flood management institutions and policy regimes. Sally is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Flood Risk Management and a member of the editorial boards of both Environmental Hazards and Water Security.
Glen Smith
Research Fellow, Flood Hazard Research Centre
Glen is a research fellow at the Flood Hazard Research Centre at Middlesex University. He completed his PhD in natural resource management at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø in 2018. In his PhD project he analysed the evolution of a marine spatial planning (MSP) system in Scotland, with a particular focus on how the system is governed at all levels, including questions of transparency, power, and participation in decision making. Glen’s most recent position was as a postdoctoral researcher at MaREI: the SFI Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork (UCC). This BCOMAR project (Building Coastal and Marine Resilience) helped inform the task of building resilience to climate change along Ireland’s coastline, with a focus on adaptation actions. Glen is a keen runner, cyclist, and likes to snorkel and go rock climbing… anything outdoors really. He speaks fluent German and Spanish and can embarrass himself in Norwegian.