Brooke Rogers, OBE

Risk communication, Risk perception, Behaviour, Extreme Events, Terrorism, CBRN Terrorism, Violent Radicalisation, Counter Terror, Resilience, Critical National Infrastructure

Professor Brooke Rogers (OBE) is a Professor of Behavioural Science and Security at King’s College London where she is Deputy Head of Department and Director of Academic Staffing in the Department of War Studies.  Professor Rogers is a social psychologist interested in risk communication, public and practitioner attitudes to, perceptions of, and responses to health and security risks and threats.  She has an exceptional track record of delivering over £25million of multi-disciplinary, collaborative research projects exploring psychological and behavioural responses to low likelihood, high-impact events such as chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) incidents.  Other projects have focussed on public delivery of first-aid during extreme events, risk communication with potentially vulnerable groups, disaster education in schools, doctor-patient communication, community and organisational resilience, protecting crowded places, pathways into violent radicalisation, insider threat, and more.