Lucy Easthope: podcast appearances and interviews

Lucy Easthope is a British expert and adviser on emergency planning and disaster recovery. She has held academic positions including Professor in Practice of Risk and Hazard at the University of Durham,where she co-founded the After Disaster Network. Additionally, she serves as a visiting professor in mass fatalities and pandemics at the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath. Easthope is also a researcher at the Joint Centre for Disaster Research at Massey University and has been a Senior Fellow at the Emergency Planning College. Her expertise extends to her membership in the Cabinet Office National Risk Assessment Behavioural Science Expert Group. Easthope is the author of the book When the Dust Settles which shares stories of love, loss, and hope from her experience in disaster contexts, as well as The Recovery Myth, which examines post-disaster response efforts and their real-world challenges.