About
Nuclear Consulting Group (ncg) comprises leading 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 listed below.
Dr Abhishek Agarwal
Senior Lecturer, Energy Strategy
Aberdeen Business School
Prof Keith Barnham
Emeritus Professor of Physics
Imperial College London
Co-Founder and CTO QuantaSol Ltd
Duncan Bayliss MRTPI
Senior Lecturer in Geography
University of the West of England
Dr Margaret Beavis MBBS, FRACGP
Secretary, Medical Association for the Prevention of War
Member, ICAN
Oda Becker
Independent Nuclear Consultant
Germany
Dr Katherine G Begg
Research Institute for Geography and the Lived Environment
School of Geosciences
University of Edinburgh
Craig Bennett
Chief Executive Officer
Friends of the Earth (FoE)
England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Prof Andy Blowers
Emeritus Professor
The Open University
Prof Stefan Bouzarovski
School of Environment and Development
University of Manchester
Prof Peter Bradford
Adjunct Professor, Vermont Law School
Member of the China Sustainable Energy Policy Council
Vice Chair of the Board of the Union of Concerned Scientists
Former Member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Dr Adam Broinowski
Research Fellow
Australian National University (ANU)
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Paul Brown
Co-Editor, Climate News Network
Author, ‘Global Warning: The Last Chance for Change’
Prof Kate Brown
Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, MIT
Author of Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
Prof Tom Burke
Founding Director of E3G
Chairman of the Editorial Board of ENDS
Visiting Professor at Imperial and University Colleges
Shaun Burnie
Independent Nuclear Consultant
Prof Roy Butterfield
Professor (Emeritus) Civil Engineering
University of Southampton
Dr Noel Cass
Lancaster Environment Centre
Lancaster University
Dr Jason Chilvers
Lecturer, School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
Dr Carl Iwan Clowes FFPH
Board Member, Public Health Wales
Dr Steve Connelly
Department of Town and Regional Planning
University of Sheffield
Dr Matthew Cotton
Sustainability Research Institute
School of Earth and Environment
University of Leeds
Dr Richard Cowell
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy and Planning
Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning
University of Cardiff
Prof Nick Cowern
Emeritus Professor, School of Engineering, Newcastle University
CEO, NC Tech Insight Ltd
Dr Emily Cox
Research Associate
Tyndall Centre, Cardiff University
Dr Sarah J Darby
Senior Researcher
Lower Carbon Futures
Environmental Change Institute
Oxford University
Prof Jonathan Davies
Professor of Critical Policy Studies
Faculty of Business and Law
De Montfort University
Tim Deere-Jones
Marine Environment and Pollution Consultant
Pinar Demircan
Phd Candidate, Sociology, Nuclear Risk
Independent Researcher and Journalist, Turkey
Dr Mark Diesendorf
Associate Professor and Deputy Director
Institute of Environmental Studies
UNSW Australia
Dr Charles W Donovan
Director, Centre for Climate Finance and Investment
Principal Teaching Fellow, Department of Management
Imperial College Business School
Dr Paul Dorfman
Founder, Nuclear Consulting Group (ngc)
Honorary Senior Research Associate, UCL Energy Institute, University College London
Nuclear Policy Research Fellow, Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT)
Dr John Downer
Lecturer in Risk and Resilience
Global Insecurities Centre
University of Bristol
Prof David Elliott
Emeritus Professor of Technology Policy
The Open University
Herbert Eppel CEng CEnv
HE German Technical Translations
Founder member of Pro Wind Alliance
Dr Nick Eyre
Professor of Energy and Climate Policy
Jackson Senior Research Fellow in Energy
ECI and Oriel College, University of Oxford
Dr Ian Fairlie
Independent Nuclear Consultant
Dr Ben Fairweather
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility
De Montfort University
Former Editor, Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society
Prof Frank Fischer
Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies
Potsdam and Humboldt University, Berlin
Dr Jim Green
Editor, Nuclear Monitor (World Information Service on Energy and Nuclear Information & Resource Service)
National Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth, Australia
Rika Haga MSc
PhD Student
St Andrews University
Marcin Harembski
Civil Nuclear Monitor, Poland
Prof Gabrielle Hecht
Frank Stanton Foundation Professor of Nuclear Security
Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC)
Stanford University
Prof Jeffrey Henderson
Professor of International Development
University of Bristol
Dr Richard Hindmarsh
Associate Professor, Griffith School of Environment
Griffith University
Editor, Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi: Social, Political and Environmental Issues
Pascal Hingcamp
Université de la Méditerranée, Bioinformatique et Génomique
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Dr Dan der Horst
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Dr Kate Hudson
Chair, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
Charly Hulten
World Information Service on Energy (WISE)
Sweden
Tetsunari Iida
Executive Director
Institute of Sustainable Energy Policies (ISEP)
Dr Phil Johnstone
Research Fellow
Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU)
University of Sussex
Dr Aled Jones FRSA
Director
Global Sustainability Institute
Anglia Ruskin University
Dr Petar Kardjilov
Risk and Crisis Communication
The Greens NC
Bulgaria
Dr Dominic Kelly
Lecturer in International Political Economy
Department of Politics and International Studies
University of Warwick
Tom Kelsey BA MA
PhD Candidate
Centre for Science, Technology and Medicine in History
King’s College London
Bruce Kent
Vice President CND
Dr Peter Wynn Kirby
Research Fellow
School of Geography and the Environment
University of Oxford
Prof Nic Lampkin
Executive Director
UK Organic Research Centre
Dr Peter Lee
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Michel Lee
Senior Policy Analyst, Promoting Health and Sustainable Energy
Chair, Council on Intelligent Energy & Conservation Policy
Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen
Independent Consultant, Energy Systems
Jeremy Leggett
Founder and Chairman of Solarcentury and SolarAid
Author of The Carbon War and Half Gone
Dr Markku Lehtonen
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Associate Researcher, GSPR, EHESS – Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Associate Researcher, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex
Dr Mark Lemon
Principal Lecturer
Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development
De Montfort University
Dr David Lowry
Independent research consultant
Specialist in UK and EU nuclear & environment policy
Senator Scott Ludlam
Australian Greens Senator for Western Australia
Spokesperson for Nuclear Issues, Infrastructure and Sustainable Cities
Spokesperson Assisting on Defence, Resources and Energy
Yves Marignac
Director, WISE, Paris
Dr Darren McCauley
Department of Geography and Sustainable Development
School of Geography & Geosciences
University of St. Andrews
Jean McSorley
Former Head, Nuclear & Energy Campaign Asia, Greenpeace International
Author, Living in the Shadow, the Story of the People of Sellafield
Prof Ian Miles
Professor of Technological Innovation and Social Change
Manchester Institute of Innovation Research
Manchester Business School, University of Manchester
Craig Morris
Coauthor Energy Democracy, the first history of Germany’s Energiewende
Prof Maggie Mort
Professor of the Sociology of Science, Technology & Medicine
Dept of Sociology
Lancaster University, UK
Prof Carmel Mothersill
Department of Medical Physics and Applied Radiation Sciences
McMaster University, USA
Prof Hideki Murai
Professor of Environmental Accounting
Nihon University, Tokyo
Prof Majia Holmer Nadesan
Arizona State University
Author, Fukushima and the Privatization of Risk
Dr Jari Natunen
Independent Nuclear Consultant
Helsinki, Finland
Prof Jenny Nelson
Professor of Physics, Imperial College London
Fellow of the Royal Society, Faraday Medal and Prize
Dr Peter North
School of Environmental Sciences
Department of Geography
University of Liverpool
Prof Monica Oliphant AO
Adj A/Prof University of South Australia
Fellow Charles Darwin University
Former President, International Solar Energy Society
Andrey Ozharovskiy
Independent Nuclear Consultant
Bellona Russia
V T Padmanabhan
Independent Nuclear Consultant
India
Jinyoung Park
PhD student at School of Law
Member of Center for Energy & Environmental Law and Policy
Seoul National University, South Korea
Dr Stuart Parkinson
Executive Director
Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR)
Dr Mark Pelling
Reader in Geography
Department of Geography
King’s College London
Jonathon Porritt
Founder, Director and Trustee, Forum for the Future
Co-Director of the Prince of Wales’s Business & Sustainability Programme
Dr Jerome Ravetz
Institute for Science, Innovation and Society
Oxford University
Prof Susan Roaf
Emeritus Professor, Architectural Engineering, Heriot-Watt University
Author, Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change
Pete Roche
Energy Consultant
Editor of No2NuclearPower
Policy Adviser to the Nuclear Free Local Authorities
Dr Alex Rosen MD
Pediatrician
Vice-President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) Germany
Scientific Council of the German Nuclear Waste Report
Environmental Health Committee of the German Medical Association
Prof Harry Rothman
Institute of Innovation Research
Manchester Business School
University of Manchester
Dr Gabor Sarlos
Senior Lecturer, School of Communication and Design
RMIT University Vietnam
Author, Risk and Benefit Perceptions in the Discourse on Nuclear Energy
Prof Ingmar Schumacher
Professor in Environmental Economics
IPAG Business School, Paris
Dr Jonathan Scurlock
Chief Adviser, Renewable Energy and Climate Change
National Farmers’ Union (NFU)
Prof Benjamin K Sovacool
Professor of Energy Policy, University of Sussex
Professor of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University
Prof Andy Stirling
Director of Science for SPRU
Co-director Centre on Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability
University of Sussex
Prof Peter A Strachan
Group Lead, Strategy and Policy Unit
The Robert Gordon University
Aberdeen Business School
Kumar Sundaram
Editor, DiaNuke.org
Dr Johan Swahn
Director, MKG
Swedish NGO Office for Nuclear Waste Review
Prof Donald Swift-Hook FRSA
Visiting Professor, Kingston University
Director & Secretary to the Board of the World Renewable Energy Network
Prof Erik Swyngedouw
Professor of Geography
School of Environment and Development
Manchester University
Dr Joseph Szarka
Author on energy and climate policy in France and EU
N A J Taylor
Lecturer, Australian Indigenous Studies, The University of Melbourne
Honorary Associate, Environmental Humanities Collaboratory, Linköping University
Dr Alan Terry
Senior Lecturer in Geography
Geography and Environmental Management
Geography Research Unit, UWE
Prof Stephen Thomas
Professor of Energy Policy
Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU)
University of Greenwich
David Thorpe
Patron, One Planet Life
Sustainability Consultant and Author
Oliver Tickell
Editor, The Ecologist
Dr Youri Timsit
Director of Research
Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée
French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Dr David Toke
Reader in Energy Politics
Department of Politics and International Relations
University of Aberdeen
Prof Toshihide Tsuda MD, PhD
Graduate School of Environmental Life Science
Okayama University
Prof Scott Valentine
Associate Professor
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
National University of Singapore
Co-author, The National Politics of Nuclear Power
Prof Gordon Walker
Chair of Environment, Risk and Social Justice
Department of Geography
Lancaster University
Dr John Walls
School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Andrew Warren
Chairman, British Energy Efficiency Federation
Honorary President, Association for the Conservation of Energy (ACE)
Dr Matt Watson
Lecturer in Social and Cultural Geography
Department of Geography
University of Sheffield
Prof Dave Webb
Chair of CND
Emeritus Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies
Leeds Metropolitan University
Dr Philip Webber
Chair of Scientists for Global responsibility (SGR)
Non-Executive Director, YES Energy Solutions
Research Fellow, Leeds University
Prof Stuart Weir
Visiting Professor, Government Department
University of Essex
Dr Ian Welsh
Emeritus Reader in Sociology
University of Cardiff
Author, Mobilising Modernity: The Nuclear Moment