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Dr Jamie K. Wardman is a Research Fellow at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre.
His research focuses on the use of media, communication and public information to articulate and manage risk, along with the public and policy impacts associated with their operation across different political and cultural contexts. To date, this research has addressed the communication and governance of risks across various domains, including science and technology, the environment, energy, food, terrorism and new media.
Dr Wardman received his PhD at the King’s Centre for Risk Management, King’s College London. Prior to joining to The University of Hong Kong he was a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Lincoln and a member of the Lincoln Social Computing Research Centre (LiSC), a leading technology institute on social media research in the UK.
His current research interests concern mapping out the sociocultural and technological aspects of emerging infectious disease reporting and outbreak communication and how it is publicly interpreted and acted upon in Southeast Asia. This work, which forms part of the JMSC Health Risk Communication Research Program, aims to help identify how global health communication efforts can be better integrated with local experience and expertise to support responses to emerging infectious disease outbreaks in this region. In other research he is also examining the various drivers, barriers and commitments shaping government openness and transparency practices relating to the generation and impact of public risk information. The current focus of this work concerns public understanding of the risks and benefits associated with different configurations of open government, particularly the provision of ‘open data’, and its associations with social innovation, community cohesion, public engagement, government accountability, legitimacy and trust.
Dr Wardman also serves as the Managing Editor of the Journal of Risk Research.
Selected Publications
Garbett, A., Wardman, J. K., Linehan, C., Kirman, B. and Lawson S. (2014) Anti-Social Media: Communicating Risk through Open Data, Crime Maps and Locative Media. In HCI Korea 2015: ‘Interaction of Everything’ Proceedings of SIG CHI Korea Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems. ACM Press
Wardman, J. K. and Christ, D. W. (2014) Open Data Asia: Beyond First Principles, In CeDEM-Asia 2014 Proceedings of the International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government, Krems: Edition Donau-Universistat Krems
Wardman, J. K. (2014) Sociocultural Vectors of Effective Risk Communication, Journal of Risk Research, 17 (9-10): 1251-1257
Garbett, A. Linehan, C., Kirman, B., Wardman, J. K. and Lawson, S (2012) How dangerous is your life? Personalising government open crime data, Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems,
Foster, D., Lawson, S., Wardman, J. K., Blythe, M. and Linehan, C. (2012) Watts in it for me? Design implications for implementing effective energy interventions, Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM 2357-2366
Lofstedt, R., Bouder, F., Wardman, J. K. and Chakraborty, S. (2011) The changing nature of communication and regulation of risk in Europe, Journal of Risk Research 14 (4), 409-429
Garbett, A. Linehan, C., Kirman, B., Wardman, J. K. and Lawson, S (2010) Using social media to drive public engagement with open data, Digital Engagement 11, ACM
Wardman, J. K. and Lofstedt, R. (2009) European Food Safety Authority – Risk Communication Annual Review, Parma: EFSA
Wardman, J. K. (2008) The constitution of risk communication in advanced liberal societies, Risk Analysis 28 (6), 1619-1637
Sheppard, B., Rubin, G. J., Wardman, J. K. and Wessley, S. (2006) Terrorism and dispelling the myth of a panic prone public, Journal of Public Health Policy 27 (3), 219-245
Wardman, J. K. (2006) Toward a critical discourse on affect and risk perception, Journal of Risk Research 9 (2), 219-245
