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Caspar Hewett with newly built flume for measuring flow at research site in Macedonia

Caspar Hewett has seventeen years of research experience in academia and industry and has taught and lectured a variety of subjects including mathematics, philosophy of science, evolutionary theory, environmental issues and English as a Foreign Language. He is chair of The Great Debate, a group that organises courses, day schools, public discussions and workshops on topics including modern Darwinian theory, human nature, consciousness, development, sustainability and environment. He has worked in Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, South Africa, Turkey, UK and USA. Caspar is on the Management Committee of the United Nation Regional Centre of Expertise (UN RCE) North East, has been a member of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Peer Review College since July 2005 and was a NESTA Crucible Awardee 2006.

Caspar's current activities include consultancy work for the Environment Agency; lecturing in market research techniques, mathematics for engineers and engineering ethics for Newcastle University; and development of the North East Education for Sustainable Development programme. His research interests include finite difference methods, the notion of progress, modern theories of human nature and sustainable development.

The IQ/DSM/TOPCAT/TopManage website was designed and written by Caspar Hewett

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Current Research Areas

• The notion of progress
• The Decision Support Matrix (DSM) Approach
• Understanding the impacts of human activity on Earth systems
• Overseas development issues
• Hydroinformatics and management systems

Current Teaching Activities

• The Great Debate courses at Centre for Lifelong Learning, Newcastle upon Tyne
• MSc. Hydroinformatics and Management Systems, IGDS
• Prerequisite mathematics on taught MSc. courses including Hydroinformatics and Hydraulic Engineering, and Sustainable Management of the Water Environment at Newcastle University

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Water Resources and the Future
Proceedings of a debate held as part of Development, Sustainability and Environment 3, March 2007
Thinking Big
Proceedings of a debate held as part of Development, Sustainability and Environment 3, March 2007
Energy Generation in the New Millennium
Proceedings of a debate held as part of Development, Sustainability and Environment 3, March 2007
To Build or Not to Build
Proceedings by Caspar Hewett and Mo Lovatt, 2006
John Locke’s Epistomology
Study of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, November 2006
Life of Voltaire
Essay on the life of the great actor in the Enlightenment, August 2006
The Three Cs and the Notion of Progress: Copernicus, Condorcet, Comte
Selected notes from the day school Science and the Human Potential held as part of Newcastle Science Festival 2006
The Nature of Being Human
Proceedings of a discussion held in March 2005
Sex, Intention and Intelligence
Selected notes from a day school held as part of Newcastle Science Festival 2005
Of Blank Slates and Zombies
Notes from a day school held as part of Newcastle Science Festival 2004
Development, Sustainability and Environment
Proceedings of conference held at Newcastle Civic Centre, 27^th September 2003, edited by Caspar Hewett
Reflections on Policy in Republic of South Africa
Outline of talk given at the WORLDwrite event Raising Horizons to Raise Water, June 2003
Newcastle Science Festival 2003: An overview
The Life of Science and the Science of Life
The Great Debate: Should we censor the Internet?
Report on the proceedings of a discussion held in November 2002 at Gateshead Civic Centre
Reflections on the Blank Slate
Report on a talk by John Dupre at the Café Scientifique and on Steven Pinker in conversation with Matt Ridley, International Centre for Life
Modern Theory and the Human Mind
Course notes from a day school held in January 2002
Sexual Selection: The Human Mind and the Peacock's Tale
Course notes from the day school The Great Debate in Action: Sexual Selection and Questions of Human Nature held in January 2001
The Great Debate: Darwinism Today
Selected notes from a ten week course
Minds, Genes and Consciousness
Course notes from a day school held in May 2001

Other Links

If I could teach the world just one thing ... Caspar Hewett's response to Spiked-online E=mc² centenary survey.
The Paradoxical Primate Review by Caspar Hewett
Review of Man, Beast and Zombie, Caspar Hewett, Audacity website, September 2002
'Cafe Scientifique: Clean Energy and the Greenhouse Effect,' Culture Wars website, Jan 2001.
Don’t denigrate specialist knowledge, Caspar Hewett, January 2004 contribution to Fearing the Unknown, The risk and biomedicine debate, spiked-online

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'Debating (de)territorial governance,' Pugh, J., C. Hewett and D. Chandler, Area, 39(1), pp.107-119, 2007

‘Towards a Hydroinformatics Framework to Aid Decision Making,’ Hewett, C.J.M., A. Doyle and P.F. Quinn, J. Hydroinformatics, In Press

'TOPCAT-NP: a minimum information requirement model for simulation of flow and nutrient transport from agricultural systems,' Quinn, P.F., C.J.M. Hewett and N.D.K. Dayawansa, Hydrological Processes, Wiley InterScience, 2008. In Press interscience.wiley.com

'Agricultural land use and flood risk management: Engaging with stakeholders in North Yorkshire,' Posthumus, H., C.J.M. Hewett, J. Morris and P.F. Quinn, Agriculatural Water Management, In Press

‘A Multi-Scale Framework for Strategic Management of Diffuse Pollution,’ Hewett, C.J.M., P.F. Quinn, A.L.Heathwaite, P.G. Whitehead, D.N. Lerner and A. Doyle, Environmental Modelling and Software, In Review

‘Modelling and Managing Critical Source Areas of Diffuse Pollution from Agricultural Land by Simulating Hillslope Flow Connectivity,’ Heathwaite, L.., Quinn, P. and Hewett, C.J.M., J.Hydrology, 304, pp.446-461, 2005

‘Towards A Nutrient Export Risk Matrix Approach to Managing Agricultural Pollution at Source,’ Hewett, C.J.M., Quinn, P.F., Whitehead, P.G., Heathwaite, A.L. and Flynn, N.J. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 8(4), 834-845, 2004

‘Integrating Hydrology into Farmer's Decisions,’ Quinn, P.F., Hewett, C.J.M. and Doyle, A., in Improving the Balance Between Economic Agricultural Production and Environmental Quality through Enhanced Decision Making, 2004, OECD Publication

‘Scale Appropriate Modelling : From Mechanisms to Management,’ Quinn, P.F., Hewett, C.J.M. and Doyle, A., in Scales in Hydrology and Water Management, Tchiguirinskaia, I., Bonell, M. and Hubert, P. (eds.), 2004, IAHS Publication 287, pp.17-38

‘Hydroinformatics Tools to Aid Decision Making for Nutrient Remediation at Source,’ Hewett, C.J.M. and Quinn, P.F., In Liong, Phoon & Babovic (eds) Proc. 6th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, June 2004, Singapore

'TopManage: A High Resolution GIS Digital Terrain Analysis Tool to Study the Management of Flow on Farms,' Caspar Hewett and Paul Quinn, 7th International Specialised Conference on Diffuse Pollution and Basin Management, August 2003, Dublin, Ireland

'An Earth Systems Engineering Approach to the Direct Management of Runoff Flow Paths and Nutrient Remediation at Source,' Paul Quinn and Caspar Hewett, 7th International Specialised Conference on Diffuse Pollution and Basin Management, August 2003, Dublin, Ireland

'Strategic Management of Non-point Source Pollution from Sewage Sludge,' Burke, S., Heathwaite, L., Quinn, P., Merrett, S., Whitehead, P., Preedy, N. and Hewett, C., 7th International Specialised Conference on Diffuse Pollution and Basin Management, August 2003, Dublin, Ireland

'A Multi-disciplinary Approach to Assessing the Effects of Water and Land Use Policy on Livelihoods,' Hewett, C.J.M and Hope, R., 5th Int. Conf. Hydroinformatics, July 2002; Cardiff.

'Unconditionally Stable Explicit Finite Difference (USED) Schemes for Four Problems in Hydraulics,' Hewett, C.J.M. and Kutija, V., 5th Int. Conf. Hydroinformatics, July 2002; Cardiff.

'Finite Volume Solution For Flow in a Channel with a Step on its Bottom,' Erduran, K.S., Kutija, V. and Hewett, C.J.M., 5th Int. Conf. Hydroinformatics, July 2002; Cardiff.

'Modelling of Supercritical Flow Conditions Revisited: NewC Scheme,' Kutija, V. and Hewett, C.J.M., J. Hydraulic Research, March 2002, 40:145-152

'Performance of Finite Volume Solutions to the Shallow Water Equations with Shock Capturing Schemes,' Erduran, K.S., Kutija, V. and Hewett, C.J.M., Int. J. Numer. Meth. Fluids, 2002; 40:1237-1273

'Breaking the Taboos: Stability of Finite Difference for the Solution of Flow problems,' Hewett, C.J.M., Kutija, V. and Erduran, K.S., 4th Int. Conf. Hydroinformatics, July 2000; Iowa., USA.

'An Investigation of a Straight Channel Assumption for Meandering Channels,' Erduran, K.S., Hewett, C.J.M. and Kutija, V.; 4th Int. Conf. Hydroinformatics, July 2000; Iowa., USA.

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