Dr Sarah Dryhurst

Sarah Dryhurst received her PhD in Ecology from Imperial College London in 2014. After working for several years in Open Access publishing, Sarah moved back into research with a redirected focus on psychology, receiving an MSc in Psychology from University of East London in 2018. Whilst with the Winton Centre she worked as part of the EU RISE project, focusing on developing and evaluating tools to communicate seismic risk to a variety of public and policy-making audiences. She also researched how people understand and respond to uncertainty about evidence, and the efficacy of common forms of risk communication such as risk matrices. She uses both quantitative and qualitative approaches in her research. Sarah also has an interest in understanding public perceptions of climate change and in how misinformation may influence how people think about climate change and other societal problems. She left the Winton Centre to move to UCL where she works on helping people understand and respond to high impact risks.