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This presentation will encourage the attendee to recognize the diverse nature of building populations and accommodate this in the engineering process. It will draw on real evacuation experiences and research studies to explore the potential impacts on evacuation dynamics and issues/challenges for design and management.
Dr. Karen Boyce is a Senior Lecturer and a member of the Fire Safety Engineering Research and Technology (FireSERT) centre at Ulster University where she also Course Director for MSc Fire Safety Engineering. Her research interest lies primarily in relation to understanding the behaviour and movement of occupants during evacuation and much of her research has focused on issues related to the evacuation of disabled people. High profile projects have included an investigation into the behaviours of evacuees of World Trade Centre on 9/11. She is the author of 70+ research publications and a member of the Advisory Board of Fire and Materials. She is co-author (with Dr Steve Gwynne) of the chapter entitled Engineering Data in the 5th Edition of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers Handbook.