Lucy In The Media

Public Inquiries:

How should we handle historic public inquiries? | BBC Sounds

Good Housekeeping:

• Prepare For The Slump | Good Housekeeping

• 35 things you should always have ready in a disaster | Good Housekeeping

Recorded Talks:

• At Your Own Peril | BBC Sounds

• A Life in Pictures: Lucy Easthope and Disaster Recovery | Skybrary

• Harnessing the power of art to open up a conversation about disappearance | University of Bath

• How to Rebuild the NHS Post-Pandemic with Lucy Easthope | WIRED Event

Current Affairs:

• What Can We Learn From Disasters? (October 2025)

• Why ‘very vulnerable’ Scotland faces ‘managed retreat’ as storms of climate change worsen (February 2025)

• Why a disaster expert wants Scotland to better prepare for the worst (2025)

• Getting back into work after a long absence (August 2025)

• Cash, emergency food and wind-up radios: How to survive a power outage (April 2025)
• Europeans told to gather supplies for 72 hours amid ‘direct’ war threat (April 2025)

• Power Outages in Spain (April 2025)

• Experts warn about emergency stockpiling (March 2025)

• Lockdown Legacy: Waiting for Covid (March 2025)

• How Covid changed children in Britain (March 2025)

• Only one in six A&Es in England say they could cope with major incident (January 2025)

• Confidence in government response has been lost (December 2024)

• How worried should we be about a Russian attack on the UK’s power grid? (November 2024)

• The UK isn’t prepared enough for a nuclear strike (November 2024)

• The expert who is called when there is a disaster explains what happened in Valencia (November 2024)

• Legal aftermath of tragedy (September 2024)

• Biohazards, Putin, extremism… we’ll need more than a few tins of beans (June 2024)

• Biohazards, Putin, extremism (May 2024)

• Lucy Easthope on ITV Granada on ‘Self preservation and denial’ (May 2024)

• Lucy Easthope on Why Year 11s are in crisis (May 2024)

• Next pandemic is around the corner (March 2024)

• Lucy Easthope on Sky News on the next pandemic (March 2024)

• Lucy Easthope on BBC Sounds with Colin Murray (March 2024)

• The water will come: how should the social housing sector prepare for a wetter world? (February 2024)

• Sorry not sorry: When will senior women stop writing emails like this? (November 2023)

• Pandemic aftermath: GPs are disaster responders now (October 2023)

• GPs need ‘combat levels’ of self care to deal with pandemic fallout (October 2023)

• UK isn’t prepared for bedbug invasion (October 2023)

• National Risk Register’s predictions for the UK (August 2023)

• Lucy Easthope on BBC Radio 4 – Inside Science: How Will Climate Change Affect Where We Live? (August 2023)

• Our son is refusing to go to school – and we feel so isolated (June 2023)

• Lucy Easthope on BBC Radio 4 – Inside Science: Can we prevent natural disasters? (May 2023)

• Telegraph Book Club: When The Dust Settles (May 2023)

• My Covid-era confidence crisis (May 2023)

• The anger and hope the earthquake left behind in Syria and Turkey (February 2023)

• Professor Lucy Easthope’s response to the Turkey, Syria earthquake (February 2023)

• Anger, grief and blame: Creeslough and the long aftermath of tragedy (October 2022)

• Nuclear bunkers: inside relics from another era that show UK is not prepared for disaster (March 2022)

Disaster preparedness:

• Can a bunker save you from the end of the world? (2025)

• Are you prepared if there’s an emergency? (2025)

• What to do if the power goes out this winter (December 2023)

• Nuclear bunkers: Inside relics from another era (March 2022)

The Guardian:

• Our son is refusing to go to school (June 2023)

• My Covid-era confidence crisis (May 2023)

• The big idea: in a disaster, bad help can be worse than no help at all (March 2023)

• The Guardian’s view on pandemic recovery (December 2022)

• The Guardian view on Pakistan’s floods (September 2022)

• Out of the dust: Britain’s leading disaster expert on coping with crisis (March 2022)

• Families deserve a final Grenfell death toll. We mustn’t be slaves to DNA testing (August 2017)

• I’m an emergency planner. Manchester shows we need new ways to heal (May 2017)

• How do you recover from a flood? Here’s what I learned from talking to victims (January 2016)

Woman’s Hour:

• Professor Lucy Easthope on Woman’s Hour: Paramedic strike action  (December 2022)

• Professor Lucy Easthope on Woman’s Hour: When The Dust Settles and catastrophies (April 2022)