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Caspar J M Hewett

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Institute for Research on Environment and Sustainability
Devonshire Building
University of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
United Kingdom

tel: +44 (0)191 265 9713
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Curriculum Vitae

Current research and teaching
On this site
Recent Publications


Caspar Hewett

Caspar Hewett
Dr. Caspar Hewett is the Director and Chair of The Great Debate. He has over seventeen years of research experience in academia and industry and has taught and lectured a variety of subjects including mathematics, numerical methods, philosophy of science, environmental issues and English as a Foreign language.

Caspar is on the Management Committee of the United Nations Regional Centre of Expertise North East in Education for Sustainable Development (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. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at Institute for Research on Environment and Sustainability (IRES) in Newcastle.

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.

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Qualifications

BSc. (Hons) Mathematics [1982], MSc. Applicable Mathematics [1990], PhD. Civil Engineering [2003]

Current Research Activities

  • Changing perceptions of the notion of progress
  • The Decision Support Matrix (DSM)
  • Earth Systems Engineering and Management (ESEM)
  • Overseas development issues
  • Hydroinformatics

Current Teaching Activities

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On this site by Caspar Hewett

Water Resources and the Future by Caspar Hewett. Proceedings of a debate held as part of Development, Sustainability and Environment 3, March 2007

Thinking Big by Caspar Hewett. Proceedings of a debate held as part of Development, Sustainability and Environment 3, March 2007

Energy Generation in the New Millennium by Caspar Hewett. 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

John Locke’s Theory of Knowledge (An Essay Concerning Human Understanding) by C J M Hewett, November 2006

Life of Voltaire, Essay by C J M Hewett, 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

Tilting at Windmills by Caspar Hewett. Proceedings of the Energy Futures debate held as part of Development, Sustainability and Environment II, October 2005

The Nature of Being Human Proceedings of a discussion held in March 2005

Sex, Intention and Intelligence Selected notes from the day school The Great Debate: Being Human 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

The Floods and Agriculture Risk Matrix (FARM) Decision support tool to allow farmers and land use planners to assess the risk of increased runoff from their land and to explore options to reduce that risk whilst maintaining farmer income. Created by Caspar J M Hewett and Paul Quinn

Development, Sustainability and Environment Proceedings of conference held at Newcastle Civic Centre, 27th September 2003, based on the notes of John Theaker, 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 on Saturday 7th June 2003

Newcastle Science Festival 2003: An overview

The Life of Science and the Science of Life
Review of discussion held as part of the first Newcastle Science Festival at Centre for Life, 17 April 2003.

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
Selected notes from the day school Sexual Selection and Questions of Human Nature held in January 2001

The Great Debate: Darwinism Today
Selected notes from the ten week course of the same name

Minds, Genes and Consciousness
Course notes from a day school held in May 2001

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Recent Publications

'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, 22, pp.2565-2580, 2008, Available online.

'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, Agricultural Water Management, 95(7), pp.787-798, 2008

‘A Multi-Scale Framework for Strategic Management of Diffuse Pollution,’ Hewett, C.J.M., P.F. Quinn, A.L.Heathwaite, A. Doyle, S. Burke, P.G. Whitehead and D.N. Lerner, Environmental Modelling and Software, In Press, Available online 2 July 2008

The Paradoxical Primate Review by Caspar Hewett

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

‘Integrating Hydrology into Farmer's Decisions,’ Quinn, P.F., Hewett, C.J.M. and Doyle, A., in The Farmer's Decision, Hatfield, J. (ed.), 2005, Soil and Water Conservation Society, Iowa, USA, pp.173-204

‘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), pp.834-845, 2004

‘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

Don’t denigrate specialist knowledge, Caspar Hewett, January 2004 contribution to Fearing the Unknown, The risk and biomedicine debate, spiked-online

'TopManage: A High Resolution GIS Digital Terrain Analysis Tool to Study the Management of Flow on Farms,' Hewett, C. and Quinn, P., 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,' Quinn, P. and Hewett, C., 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

Instructions for using TopManage, Caspar J M Hewett and Paul Quinn, March 2003, TOPCAT website

TOPCAT - The Theory, Quinn, P.F., Dayawansa, N.D.K. and Hewett, C.J.M., March 2003, TOPCAT website

Review of 'Man, Beast and Zombie' by Kenan Malik, Caspar Hewett, Audacity website, September 2002

'Modelling of Supercritical Flow Conditions Revisited: NewC Scheme,' Kutija, V. and Hewett, C.J.M., J. Hydraulic Research, 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

'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.

'Cafe Scientifique: Clean Energy and the Greenhouse Effect,' Culture Wars website, Jan 2001.

'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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