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The seminar in London took place on the 7th September, 2010. The details are as follows.

Date and Time: 07 September 2010, 10:00-17:00
Venue: John Galsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road Campus, Kingston University (Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, KT1 2EE)
Programme:


10:00 - 10:30 Opening Session
10:00 - 10:10 Opening Remarks:
Royal Borough of Kingston
10:10 - 10:30 Dr. Andrew Collins, Disaster and Development Centre, Northumbria University
'Synopsis of the UK Disaster Education Seminar Series'
10:30 - 11:30 Session One
10:30 - 11:00Presentation:
John Wilson, Group Commander for Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service, Belfast
'Risk perception and disaster education’
11:00 - 11:30Presentation:
Dr. John Twigg, University College London
'Disaster "education": contexts, questions & challenges'
11:30 - 11:50 Coffee/ Tea Break
11:50 - 13:20 Session Two
11:50 - 12:20Presentation:
Claire Seed, Team Leader, London Resilience Team
'Community Resilience: Resilience Planning in London'
12:20 - 12:50Presentation:
Leigh Farina & Matt Innerd, London Borough of Hounslow
'Adapting the curriculum'
12:50 - 13:20Presentation:
Dr. Fumiyo Kagawa, Sustainability Frontiers
'Towards transformative disaster education in an age of climate change'
13:20 - 14:10 Lunch
14:10 - 16:45 Session Three
14:10 - 14:40Presentation:
Dr. Nick Hall, Plan International
'Plan and Disaster Education in the UK and overseas'
14:40 - 15:10Presentation:
Dr. Hideyuki Shiroshita, Faculty of Safety Science, Kansai University, Japan
'Disaster Education as an access to communities of practice'
15:10 - 15:40Presentation:
Zeynep M. Sanduvac, RiskRED National Coordinator
'Risk Reduction Education for Disasters in Turkey'
15:40 - 15:50 Coffee/ Tea Break
15:50 - 16:45Discussion (Chair: Dr. John Twigg, University College London)
16:45 - 17:00Summing up and Closing:
Dr. Andrew Collins, DDC, Northumbria University

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