Richard Amlôt is a Research Fellow based at the Health Protection Agency’s Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response (CEPR) at Porton Down in Wiltshire. He is currently working on a three year study of public responses to incidents involving chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) threats in collaboration with the Institute of Psychiatry and King’s Centre for Risk Management, King’s College London. Richard is also involved in designing evaluation and feedback strategies for some of the emergency preparedness exercises run for the UK Department of Health. The most recent of these exercises was a ‘live’ mass casualty decontamination exercise involving young children. He is also involved in the development of the behavioural sciences research strategy within the Health Protection Agency. Ongoing and planned projects include; the use survey data to assess the impact of disasters and terrorist attacks, optimising mass casualty decontamination procedures; and examining the decision criteria for establishing health registers after major incidents.
A research psychologist by training, with experience in health and experimental psychology, Richard previously worked in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. In collaboration with colleagues from the University of London and the University of Ulster, Richard is in the process of publishing an edited book, the outcome of a British Psychological Society funded conference series on aspects of terrorism and martyrdom.
