Authors wishing to present their work in the form of an oral presentation, poster or symposium at the 24th Society for Risk Analysis-Europe conference 2015 are invited to submit an abstract no later than Tuesday 20 January 2015. The theme of the conference will be “Science, Policy and Society”. Authors are invited to reflect on critical directions in risk science as well as the promises and challenges of developing science-informed policy. The conference will be held at Maastricht University on Monday 15-Wednesday 17 June 2015.
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Special session to remember the life and work of Ulrich Beck: “Risk Society: in Memory of Ulrich Beck’’
With Prof. Lord Tony Giddens, London School of Economics, and Prof. Ortwin Renn, University of Stuttgart .
This special memorial session, chaired by Prof. Ragnar Löfstedt, will take place on 16 June 2015 from 17:30 to 18:30 at our largest auditorium. It will feature brief scholarly presentations made in Ulrich Beck’s honour.
Call for Abstracts- Last days!
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Authors wishing to present their work at the SRA-Europe conference 2015 in the form of an oral presentation, poster or symposium are requested to submit an abstract no later than 20 January 2015.
The theme of the conference will be “Science, Policy and Society”. Authors are invited to reflect on critical directions in risk science as well as the promises and challenges of developing science-informed policy.
Keynote speakers
Prof. Marjolein van Asselt, Dutch Safety Board
Prof. Claude Fischler School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris
Ms. Sharon Gesthuizen MP, Dutch House of representatives
Ms. Julie Girling MEP, Chair of the Risk Group at the European Parliament
Prof. Erik Lebret, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)
Prof Ellen Peters Ohio State University
Prof. Sybe Schaap, Senator, Dutch Senate
Dr. Bernhard Url, Executive Director, European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
Topics
- Science-informed risk decisions
- Evidence and risk
- Risk policy and regulation
- Risk Governance
- Decision-making and uncertainty
· Risk perception at individual and institutional level
· Risk communication and participation
· Economic loss estimation and insurance
· New paradigms in risk assessment and risk reduction
· Safety and security issues
· International and cross-border collaborations in risk reduction
· Ethical dimensions of risk
Abstracts may be presented orally or in a poster session. Authors are furthermore invited to submit full-length papers which will be assessed for publication in a special issue of Journal of Risk Research (optional). The submission of a full paper is optional; it is possible to present an abstract without writing a full paper. Deadline for submission of full papers is 1 June 2015.
Abstracts for individual papers, posters and symposiums must be submitted to the organizing committee by filling out the abstract submission form by 20 January 2015. Oral presentations will last 20 minutes. The abstract of an oral presentation or poster should not exceed 400 words and include specific field of interest, issues addressed, methodology applied and results achieved or expected.
We encourage submissions of symposium abstracts. A symposium is a conference session composed by 3 to 6 presentations/abstracts on a common topic, lasting for 90 minutes. In some cases symposia may be extended to last over 2 consecutive sessions, involving 7-8 speakers. Symposium proposals must be submitted to the organizing committee (sra2015@maastrichtuniversity.nl) by 20 January 2015. The symposium proposal must contain:
- Title of symposium;
- Name of person (and his/her email address) responsible for planning and arranging the symposium;
- Short description of the topic and contents of the symposium (max 200 words);
- List of the presentations in the symposium (title of abstract and author names).
Please notice that each abstract in the proposed symposium needs to be submitted individually to the organizing committee by filling out the abstract submission form. Symposium organizers and presenters must pay participation fee similar to other conference participants.
Authors whose abstracts have been accepted will be expected to attend the conference and present their work in person.
Abstracts and proposals will be reviewed by the Technical Program Committee. Upon acceptance the Maastricht organizing committee will notify authors by email. The conference program schedule will be available mid-May 2015.
Important Dates
Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 20, 2015
Notification of acceptance: March 13, 2015
Early Bird registration: until April 15, 2015
Late Bird registration: until May 15, 2015
All questions can be addressed to sra2015@maastrichtuniversity.nl
