REGISTRATION WILL OPEN IN MARCH 2015

Human Behaviour in Fire is the study of human response when exposed to fire and other similar emergencies in buildings, structures and transportation systems. It includes an understanding of people’s awareness, beliefs, attitudes, motivations, decisions, behaviours and coping strategies and the factors that influence them. The study of human behaviour in fire is highly multidisciplinary, involving practitioners from the fields of mathematics, engineering, architecture, computer science, law, sociology, psychology, human factors, communications and ergonomics.

The primary aim of human behaviour research and its translation into practice is to minimise the risk to people from fire. This is achieved by generating and collecting quantitative and qualitative data and information on human responses which can be used to develop human fire response theory for use in performance based regulatory systems, computational models, fire safety engineering design, fire safety education and management.

The 6th Human Behaviour in Fire Symposium will facilitate the dissemination, open discussion and debate on diverse issues related to human behaviour in fire through a varied programme of research presentations, seminar discussions and interactive workshops. .

All papers related to the field of human behaviour in fire are welcome, however the Programme Committee invites all those interested in this broad research area to join colleagues in Cambridge this autumn to exchange views and ideas in the stunning collegiate setting of Downing College.

Karen Boyce, Univ of Ulster, UK - Chair
Jason Averill,NIST, USA
Dorothy Bruck,Victoria Univ of Tech, Australia
Rita Fahy, NFPA, USA
Carole Franks, Interscience Communications, UK
Hakan Frantzich, Lund Univ, Sweden
Edwin Galea,Univ of Greenwich, UK
Steve Gwynne,NRCC, Canada
Glenn Hedman,Univ of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Morgan Hurley, SFPE, USA
Erica Kuligowski, NIST, USA
Brian Meachem, Worcester Polytechnic Inst, USA
Daniel Nilsson, Lund Univ, Sweden
Rosaria Ono, Univ of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Amanda Robbins, Sereca Fire Consulting, Canada
Ai Sekizawa,Tokyo Univ of Science, Japan
Jim Shields, Univ of Ulster, UK
Tomonori Sano, Waseda Univ, Japan
Ian Thomas, Victoria Univ of Technology, Australia