Female academics and the media

Chair: Dr Amanda Chisholm

Speaker: Professor Brooke Rogers OBE

Join a discussion organised by the School of Security Studies' EDI and Women in War & International Politics (WIWIP) on how we get more women academics featured in the media. Expert commentators tend to still be disproportionately male, a phenomenon the has been starkly highlighted by the ratio of male to female experts commenting on Covid-19. This imbalance is also reflected locally in our own School. So, how what are the structural barriers to featuring more female and diverse voices in the media? What strategies and approaches can we use to shift the balance in our own School, and how can we change the face of academic expertise in the public eye more widely? 

Professor Brooke Rogers, Professor of Behavioural Science and Security and Deputy Head of Department in the Department of War Studies, joins us to share her experience of working with the media and answer your questions about getting more diverse representation of academics in the public eye. School Communications Manager, Lizzie Ellen, will also join to discuss what support the School Comms Team can offer in helping you to share your research more widely.

Bio

Professor Brooke Rogers OBE is a Professor of Behavioural Science and Security and Deputy Head of Department in the Department of War Studies at King’s  College London. 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.  Many of her multi-disciplinary, collaborative research projects explore psychological and behavioural responses to low likelihood, high-impact events such as chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) incidents. 

Other projects focus on community and organisational resilience, protecting crowded places, pathways into violent radicalisation, insider threat, risk communication with vulnerable groups, and more.  Professor Rogers chairs the Cabinet Office National Risk Assessment/National Security Risk Assessment Behavioural Science Expert Group (BSEG), as well as the Home Office Science Advisory Council (HOSAC).

She is an independent participant on the Science Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) and is co-chairing the behavioural science sub-group (SPI-B) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Professor Rogers also contributes to a range of local, national, and international committees, including the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology (CST). 

 

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