Current and recent projects
Game Theory and adaptive networks for smart evacuations (EPSRC)
John Preston is principal investigator on an EPSRC project on city evacuations (2010 - 2012). This project considers the changing dynamics of city evacuations where inter-agent communication is possible through social networking and mobile technologies. It aims to make evacuations in cities more efficient and equitable. You can learn more about this project on the BBC website and in other media including the Sunday Times and as part of the BBC Radio 4 programme 'Dragon's Lab'. The website for the project is http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/I005765/1.
Preparedness Pedagogies and Race: an interdisciplinary approach (ESRC)
John Preston (PI) and Namita Chakrabarty (Co-I) recently conducted ESRC funded research project 'Preparedness Pedagogies and Race: an interdisciplinary approach' (2009 - 2010) that looks at 'disaster education' in the UK, examining the ways in which people have been instructed to prepare for emergencies (including nuclear war and terrorist attack as well as the H1N1 pandemic). For more details please go to our website: http://s290179663.websitehome.co.uk/prepare/
The macro-social and meso-social benefits of vocational education and training on marginalised groups (CEDEFOP)
John Preston, Casey Edmonds and Charlotte Chadderton were investigators on two projects for the European Commission (CEDEFOP) looking at how Vocational Education and Training (VET) impacts upon different societies and social groups. This has resulted in two reports 'The macro-social benefits of vocational education and training' (2010) and 'The meso-social benefits of vocational education and training' (2011).
