Energy Express Seminar: Dr Kathy Witt

Event Details

Date:

Thursday, 21 June 2018 - Thursday, 21 June 2018

Time:

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Room:

Sir Llew Edwards Auditorium (Rm 212), Sir Llew Edwards Building (Bldg 14)

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Event category(s):

Name:: Mrs Christine Deeming
Phone:: 33464101
Email:: c.deeming@uq.edu.au
Org. Unit:: Executive Dean, Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology

Full Description:: On behalf of the UQ Energy Initiative we are delighted to introduce Dr Kathy Witt, who is a Research Fellow at the University of Queensland’s Centre for Coal Seam Gas. As a social scientist, she leads the Social Performance team studying the cumulative social and economic effects of unconventional gas development for local communities, community acceptance and non-technical risk. Kathy is a member of the US National Science Foundation’s Energy Impacts Researchers Network as well as co-chair of the Social Impact Assessment chapter of the International Association for Impact Assessment.

Kathy will present on 'What's happening in the gasfields towns?'.

Refreshments will follow.