Lucy Easthope | |
|---|---|
| Occupation(s) | Professor-in-practice, advisor on recovery planning, author |
| Known for | Emergency planning and disaster recovery |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Bristol (LLB) University of Leicester (MSc in Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management) Lancaster University (PhD in Medicine)[1] |
| Thesis | Technologies of recovery: plans and situated realities after disaster (2012) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Durham University |
| Notable works | When the Dust Settles |
Lucy Easthope is a British expert and adviser on emergency planning and disaster recovery.[2] She is a Professor in Practice of Risk and Hazard at the University of Durham, and co-founder of the After Disaster Network at the university.[3][4] She is also a visiting professor in mass fatalities and pandemics at the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath, a researcher at the Joint Centre for Disaster Research at Massey University, a former Senior Fellow of the Emergency Planning College, and a member of the Cabinet Office National Risk Assessment Behavioural Science Expert Group.[1][3][5]
She is the author of When the Dust Settles: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster and The Recovery Myth: The Plans and Situated Realities of Post-Disaster Response.