Mrs Hazel Napier

Team Leader, Geoscience & Society

Tel: 0115 936 3258

Summary

Hazel Napier leads BGS’s geoscience and society theme established in 2015 to enhance the use of geoscience in addressing complex societal problems through the development of multi-and inter-disciplinary research with collaborators outside the natural sciences. Hazel has active collaborations with a number of university social scientists, human geographers and legal scholars at the universities of Strathclyde, Stirling, Leicester, Lancaster, Plymouth and Exeter. Research streams being developed include: value of social media for disaster risk reduction in vulnerable communities in the Caribbean (ODA), the relationship between public perception, engagement and attitudes towards underground energy technologies; the role of energy literacy and valuations of subsurface energy solutions; the value of the subsurface in the renewable energy mix and energy security; governance and ownership of the subsurface. Hazel chairs a BGS working group on defining new ethical guidelines for BGS research, is involved in developing social science training for BGS geoscientists and is a member of the Natural Hazards Partnership.

Biography

2015 – ongoing : Team Leader, Geoscience and Society, British Geological Survey
2009 –2019 : Skills leader, Spatial Information and Technologies, British Geological Survey
2008 –2009 : Team Leader, Data Capture and Best Practice, British Geological Survey
2004 –2008 : IS Project Manager, British Geological Survey
2001 –2004 : IT Training Manager, British Geological Survey
1999 –2001 : BGS Board Secretary, British Geological Survey
1995 –1999 : GIS Developer, British Geological Survey
1993 –1995 : GIS Specialist, UNEP-GRID Arendal, Norway
1992 –1993 : Edinburgh University, MSc Geographic Information Systems
1990 –1992 : Research Assistant, Geography Department, Portsmouth Polytechnic
1987 –1990 : Portsmouth Polytechnic, BSc Geographical Sciences

Certificates

2018 – ongoing : ILM Level 5 Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring

Boards and committees

2014 – ongoing : Natural Hazards Partnership - member

Current projects and collaboration

2018 – ongoing : Attitudes towards publically funded energy decarbonisation science. University of Stirling
2018 – ongoing : Evaluating effectiveness of social media and citizen science in disaster risk reduction - Official Development Assistance programme
2018 – ongoing : Opportunities and challenges that arise from geothermal drilling at Krafla volcano, Iceland. Lancaster University