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3 Year Research Associate Katrina Petersen

Date: 10 November 2014

The mobilities.lab welcomes new Research Associate, Katrina Petersen.

Katrina Petersen received her PhD in 2014 from University of California, San Diego in Communication and Science Studies. Her main research has been on disaster maps as communication tools, examining how knowledge of a disaster and risk is connected to what goes into visually representing them. She is especially interested in why some representations encourage shared understandings shared between groups while others impede collaboration. She also volunteers for the San Diego Red Cross as a disaster mapper, helping them design a new system for collaborating, via maps, during disasters. Before pursuing her PhD, she worked for almost 10 years in science museum education and exhibits. Her BA is in Geology and her MSc is in Science and Technology Studies. http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/sociology/profiles/katrina-petersen

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Associated departments and research centres: Mobilities.Lab, Sociology

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