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Professor Brooke Rogers ME, King’s College understanding of empathy by exploring the keys to encoding
London empathy, and debated the state of play of empathy in the world
Professor Brooke Rogers MBE, a Professor of Behavioural of artificial intelligence. He discussed whether in the future
Science and Security at King’s College London, then delivered machines will be able to show empathy, and how this can be
an insightful presentation that explored the way in which applied to the workplace for security professionals and what if
informing and engaging protective behaviours can enhance any limitations this should have.
both public and organisational security and resilience.
Adam Thompson, NaCTSO
In her presentation, Brooke emphasised how we can create For the Wednesday afternoon session, Rick and Sarah were
more effective communications using psychological, evidence- joined by Adam Thomson from National Counter Terrorism
based approaches. Stressing that psychological risk perceptions Security Office (NaCTSO), a police unit that supports the ‘protect
inform behaviours, and consequentially impact entire systems and prepare’ strands of the government’s counter-terrorism
and the effectiveness of emergency response plans. Brooke strategy. Adam outlined the imperative role that NaCTSO play
examined how one of the most powerful tools for informing in the UK’s counter-terror efforts and how this has evolved
public perceptions of risk, and therefore behavioural over time. He explored how different theories informs the UK’s
responses, is risk communication and outlined the challenges approach
of communicating risk to the public as a security professional.
Brooke then illustrated her points with research and examples, Thursday
which included discussing her research that examined ‘See it, Dr David Brooks, Edith Cowan University
Say it, Sorted.’ and ‘Run, Hide, Tell.’ campaigns. Dr David Brooks was another one of our international speakers,
joining us from Australia where he works at Edith Cowan
Wednesday University. David started by discussing the various reasons why
Minter Dial, Author and Film Maker science is important to security professionals, and how science
Minter Dial, a multiple award-winning author that specialises can be applied to the various areas within the sector. He
in leadership and transformation, was the first speaker on the went on to explore the application issues faced within security
Wednesday of our Virtual Conference Week. At the start of his today including the blurred spectrum of security and evolving
presentation, Minter asked the audience to assess their own language use in the industry to name a few. David then went
levels of empathy. He then followed on from after address our on to discuss how can science start addressing applicational