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Dr Jonathan D Sime: a review of his principal works and their contribution to Fire Engineering and Fire Safety
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Introduction 2 What is EP? 2 Sime's Approach 2 Transdisciplinarity 3 The Occupant Response Escape Time and Occupant Response Shelter Escape Time Models 4 Posthumous Collaboration 7 Conclusion 8 References 9 Introduction Jonathon Sime was an academic and consultant who worked in the field of environmental psychology (EP). He completed his Doctoral thesis "Escape behaviour in fires: panic or affiliation" in 1984 having been supervised by David Canter. Sime later worked with Canter and many other researchers in various fields who worked in disciplines that overlapped the boundaries of EP (e.g. Proulx, Galea and Ozel). He held a number of Research Fellowships and visiting lectureships and, in 1999, he accepted the post of Visiting Professor in the Department of the Built Environment at the University of Ulster. Sime contributed a significant number of papers and reports to the body of literature concerned with EP before he suddenly died in 2001, aged 50. What is EP? EP is a field of study that seeks to describe the interactions between...
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