About Nuclear Consulting Group

Nuclear Consulting Group (NCG) comprises leading UK academics and experts in the fields of environmental risk, radiation waste, energy policy, environmental sustainability, renewable energy technology, energy economics, political science, nuclear weapons proliferation, science and technology studies, environmental justice, environmental philosophy, particle physics, energy efficiency, environmental planning, and participatory involvement. The group members are:

Prof. Brian Wynne
Associate Director of CESAGen
Professor of Science Studies and Research Director of the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change (CSEC)
University of Lancaster 

Dr. Ian Welsh
Reader in Sociology
University of Cardiff

Prof. Stuart Weir
Director of Democratic Audit
Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

Dr Matt Watson
Lecturer in Social and Cultural Geography
Department of Geography
University of Sheffield

Andrew Warren
Director Association for the Conservation of Energy
Chair of the British Energy Efficiency Federation
Member of the European Climate Change Programme Working Group

Dr. John Walls
School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham

Prof. Gordon Walker
Chair of Environment, Risk and Social Justice
Department of Geography
Lancaster University

Dr David Toke
Senior Lecturer in Energy Policy
University of Birmingham

Prof. Stephen Thomas
Professor of Energy Policy
Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU)
University of Greenwich

Dr. Alan Terry
Senior Lecturer in Geography
Geography and Environmental Management
Geography Research Unit, UWE

Prof. Erik Swyngedouw
Professor of Geography
School of Environment and Development
Manchester University

Professor Peter A. Strachan
Group Lead Strategy and Policy Unit
The Robert Gordon University
Aberdeen Business School

Prof. Andy Stirling
Director of Science for SPRU
Co-director Centre on Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability
University of Sussex 

Prof. Harry Rothman
Institute of Innovation Research
Manchester Business School
University of Manchester

Dr. Jerome Ravetz 
James Martin Institute for Science and Civilisation
Said Business School, Oxford University  

Dr. Mark Pelling
Reader in Geography
Department of Geography
King's College London

Dr. Stuart Parkinson,
Executive Director, Scientists for Global Responsibility

Dr. Maggie Mort
Reader in the Sociology of Science, Technology & Medicine
Dept of Sociology and Division of Medicine
Lancaster University

Prof. Ian Miles
Professor of Technological Innovation and Social Change,
Manchester Institute of Innovation Research,
Manchester Business School, University of Manchester

Dr Mark Lemon
Principal Lecturer
Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development
De Montfort University

Dr Markku Lehtonen
Research Fellow Sussex Energy Group
Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU)
University of Sussex

Prof. Nic Lampkin
Executive Director, Organic Research Centre
Visiting Professor, University of Reading School of Agriculture, Policy
and Development

Bruce Kent
Vice President CND

Dr Aled Jones
Director
Global Sustainability Institute
Anglia Ruskin University

Dr. Tim Jenkins
Director
Aldersgate Group

Dr. Kate Hudson
Chair, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)

Dr. Klaus Hubacek
Reader in Sustainable Development
School of Earth and Environment
University of Leeds

Dr. Dan der Horst,
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham

Prof. Frank Fischer
Professor of Political Science
Rutgers University  

Dr Ben Fairweather
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility
De Montfort University
Editor, Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society (JICES)

Dr. Nick Eyre
Senior Research Fellow
Programme Leader, Lower Carbon Futures
Environmental Change Institute
University of Oxford

Prof. David Elliott
Emeritus Professor of Technology Policy
The Open University

Prof. Andrew Dobson
Professor of Politics
University of Keele

Dr. Paul Dorfman
Founding Co-ordinator of Nuclear Consulting Group (NCG)
Senior Researcher, University of Warwick
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust Nuclear Policy Research Fellow
former Co-Secretary to the Committee Examining Radiation Risks from Internal Emitters (CERRIE)

Tim Deere-Jones
Marine Environment and Pollution Consultant

Dr. Sarah J Darby
Senior Researcher
Lower Carbon Futures
Environmental Change Institute
Oxford University

Dr. Richard Cowell
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy and Planning
Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning
University of Cardiff

Dr Matthew Cotton
Sustainability Research Institute
School of Earth and Environment
University of Leeds

Dr. Steve Connelly
Department of Town and Regional Planning
University of Sheffield

Dr. Carl Iwan Clowes. FFPH
Board member, Public Health Wales

Dr. Jason Chilvers
Lecturer, School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia

Prof. Jake Chapman
Demos Associate
former Professor of Energy Systems, Open University

Dr. Noel Cass
Lancaster Environment Centre
Lancaster University

Prof. Roy Butterfield
Professor (Emeritus) Civil Engineering
University of Southampton
National Coordinating Committee member, Scientists for Global Responsibility

Prof. Larry Busch
Professor of Standards and Society
Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen)
Institute for Advanced Studies
Lancaster University

Shaun Burnie
Independent Nuclear Consultant

Prof. Tom Burke
Founding Director of E3G
Chairman of the Editorial Board of ENDS
Visiting Professor at Imperial and University Colleges

Paul Brown
Visiting Press Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge
former Environment Correspondent of the Guardian

Dr Stefan Bouzarovski-Buzar
Senior Lecturer in Geography
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham

Prof. Andy Blowers
Emeritus Professor
The Open University
Member of Committee on Radioactive Waste Management 1

Craig Bennett
Director, Policy and Campaigns
Friends of the Earth (FOE)

Dr. Katherine G Begg
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Environmental Change and Sustainability
School of Geosciences
University of Edinburgh

Duncan Bayliss, MRTPI.
Senior Lecturer in Geography
University of the West of England

Prof. Keith Barnham,
Emeritus Professor of Physics, Imperial College London
Co-Founder and CTO QuantaSol Ltd

Prof. Frank Barnaby
Nuclear Issues Consultant
Oxford Research Group