Caught Between Science & Society:

Researching & Documenting the Impact of FMD

Foot and Mouth Disease Conference

East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham

Tuesday 7^th October 2003

9.30 – 10am	Coffee
10 – 11.10am	The social study of FMD in the UK Presentations by: Dr Brigitte Nerlich The social and cultural impact of FMD: a study not to be dismissed out of hand? (IGBiS, University of Nottingham) Dr Maggie Mort Life after FMD: the experience of collective trauma (Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University) Professor Nick Pidgeon, Dr Wouter Poortinga Dr Karen Bickerstaff (Centre for Environmental Risk, University of East Anglia) The British 2001 foot and mouth crisis: a comparative study of public risk perceptions, trust and beliefs about government policy in two communities Chair: Professor John Beckett (Department of History, University of Nottingham)
11.10–11.20am	Break
11.20 – 12.30am	Foot and mouth and rural communities Presentations by: Professor Michael Winter (Head of School of Geography, Archaeology & Earth Resources, University of Exeter) An Ethnographic Account of Foot and Mouth Disease in Devon Nick Wright (IGBiS, University of Nottingham) Miscommunication and misunderstanding: discourses of FMD Dr Matt Lobley & Dr Matt Reed (Centre for Rural Research, University of Exeter) A drama amongst the other crises: the impact of foot and mouth disease in farming family hardship in North Devon Chair: Dr Brigitte Nerlich (IGBiS, University of Nottingham)
12.30 – 1.30pm	Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.30 – 3.00pm	Foot and mouth: institutional responses Presentations by: Professors David Campbell and Robert Lee (Law School, Cardiff University) The Lawlessness of the UK Government's Response to the Foot and Mouth Epidemic of 2001 Professor Sheila Crispin, (Professor and Research Fellow of Comparative Ophthalmology, Division of Companion Animal Studies, University of Bristol) Barrie Williams FMD in the West Country - and the role of the Western Morning News (Editor of the Western Morning News) Pamela Sandiford reads some poems about FMD Chair: Nick Wright (IGBiS, University of Nottingham)
3 – 3:30pm	Coffee
3.30 – 4pm	The cultural documents of the foot and mouth epidemic Ian Hunter (Director, LITTORAL Arts, An Arts Trust for Social and Environmental Change)
4.00 – 4.50pm	Foot and mouth: The social and cultural impact Round table discussion Lessons learned from the various FMD projects Retrospective/Prospective: Learning from the past – planning for the future Chair: Professor Anne Murcott (IGBiS, University of Nottingham)
4.50 – 5.00pm	Close Brigitte Nerlich
5.00pm -	Drinks at the Staff Club & departure