Expert Delphi Survey: Methodology & Results

During the summer of 2009 the NIRT research team at NCSU conducted a three round Delphi study that identified and ranked expert estimations of nanoparticle risks and public perceptions of nanoparticle risks.

Over 20 specialists with expertise in nanoscience and terminal degrees in Biology, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Evironmental Toxicology, Pathology, Physiology, Plant and Soil Science, or Toxicology took part in the study. This page will report on the methodology and results of the study.

For information concerning the various forms of a Delphi study refer to Linstone & Turoff's website and online book avaiable at-- The Delphi Method: Techniques and Applications.

Results coming soon.

August 28-29, 2008 Workshop Presentations

Please click a title to access the full PowerPoint Presentation:

Keynote Speaker: Lennart Sjöberg- The Public's Risk Perception of Technology
Center for Risk Research, Stockholm School of Economics

James Bonner- Health Risks of Inhaled Carbon Nanotubes
North Carolina State University

Martin Clauberg- A Review of Risk Perception Methodologies University of Tennessee

Vicki Colvin- Safety by Design: A Paradigm for Toxicology Rice University

Kevin Elliott- Philosophical Debates about Regulating Risks University of South Carolina

Kenneth Foster- Risk Assessment and Risk Communication about Electromagnetic Fields: A WHO Perspective, University of Pennsylvania

Pat J. Gehrke- Public Engagement Models- Practicable Democracy University of South Carolina

Rob Goble- Uncertainty and Risk Communication Clark University

William J. Kinsella- Reflecting on the Rhetoric of Technological Risk North Carolina State University

Jennifer Kuzma- Risk Communication Challenges for Nanomaterials University of Minnesota

Travis N. Rieder- A Dilemma for Deliberative Democracy University of South Carolina

Tara Sabo-Attwood- Nanotoxicology: from Aquatic to Human Model Systems University of South Carolina

Dietram A. Scheufele- Science of Communication about Emergent Technologies University of Wisconsin

Schwartzman, Roy: Nanotoxicartography: Rhetorically mapping Public Engagement With Nanotechnology's Promises & Perils, University of North Carolina- Greensboro

John V. Stone- Public Perceptions of Agrifood Nanotechnologies Michigan State University