Dr Tim Harries

BA MSc PhD
Senior Research Fellow
Behaviour and Practice Research Group

Room 315 Business School
Kingston University
Kingston Hill
Kingston Upon Thames
Surrey
KT2 7LB

Phone:

+44 (0)20 8417 9000 Ext: 65036

E-mail:

T.Harries@kingston.ac.uk

Biography

Tim is a Senior Research Fellow in the Strategy, Marketing & Entrepreneurship department at Kingston Business School, where he is responsible for research in three areas: 1/ CHARM, a three-year EPSRC/Digital Economy project that investigates the use of the social norm approach to nudge more sustainable and healthy behaviour; 2/ DIASMA, a one-year SWan-funded study into the self-management of adolescent diabetes, and 3/ ongoing research into public responses to flood risk.

Tim has a BA in Politics from the University of York, an MSc in Social Research Methods & Social Psychology from the London School of Economics and a PhD from the University of Middlesex (2007), where he was in receipt of an ESRC CASE Studentship sponsored by the Environment Agency. He has worked as a Research Fellow at the Flood Hazard Research Centre and an ESRC Placement Fellow and consultant at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), and completed an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Geography Department in King’s College London. Prior to his PhD, Tim worked for many years in the public sector policy arena and also conducted public policy research.

Expertise

Sustainable consumption practices; qualitative research methods; discourse analysis; survey design; public responses to the threat of natural disasters.

Research Interest(s)

Practice Theory, the social norms approach and sustainable / health behaviours; community, household and small business adaptation to climate change. Currently working on CHARM, which investigates whether we can shape individual behaviours by providing information about the behaviour of others, Tim is also Chief Investigator on a project looking at the self-management of type-1 diabetes amongst adolescents.

Teaching

Tim teaches qualitative research methods on the department's masters and PhD courses.

Past teaching experience includes: Environmental Science and Public Policy (MSc; King’s College London); Survey Design (MSc; King’s College London); Research Methods (Level 1; London South Bank University)

Experience

• ESRC Placement Fellow - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
  Senior Qualitative Researcher - National Centre for Social Research
  Customer Research and Consultation Officer - Royal National Institute of Blind People
  Project Manager, Learning Disability and Mental Health Services - Newham Community Health Services NHS Trust
  Research Assistant - Audit Commission for Local Government and the NHS
  Administrator - Local Government Commission for England

Consultancy

Flood Risk Management Division, Defra - development of the Floods and Water Bill, 2008-9

Living with Environmental Change - expert reviewer for the delopment of the UK Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Research Strategy, 2010 

National Flood Forum / Defra - advisor on research into the sustainability of community flood action groups, 2012

Memberships

Royal Geographical Society
British Sociological Association

Recent Publications