In the sixth episode of Speaking of Research, a podcast from the South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership Charlotte Booker - a doctoral researcher from the University of Portsmouth - talks about her critical work on deliberate fire settings.
Charlotte explains that deliberate fires - including arson and self-reported incidents - make up around half of all fires in England and cost the UK economy an estimated £1.3 billion each year. Her qualitative research, grounded in critical realism, seeks to understand the underlying causes and contexts of fire-setting behaviour in order to improve fire safety education and develop more effective, targeted interventions to reduce re-offending.
You can read a transcript of the conversation here.
Find out more about the South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership at southcoastdtp.ac.uk
This is a Research Podcasts production.
Credits:
Presenter: Catherine McDonald, Research Podcasts
Guest: Charlotte Booker, University of Portsmouth
Producer: Krissie Brighty-Glover, Research Podcasts
Editor: Anton Jarvis, Research Podcasts
Transcripts: Lauren White, Research Podcasts
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