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This project is led by Joshua Weller funded by the UKRI-Gambling Harms Research and Innovation Partnership grant, and runs for twelve months (April 2026 – April 2027). It will establish a Lived Experience Panel of older adults with personal experience of gambling harm, who will act as co-researchers shaping the project's direction through a series...
Edika Quispe-Torreblanca Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Gordon D. A. Brown have a new paper on the - Social status and the relationship between income rank and well-being in 109 nations. Their paper in Nature Communications asks a fundamental question: why does income affect well-being? Is it because of material deprivation (lacking resources), relative deprivation (others...
Earlier this week Dr Lisa-Maria Tanase presented results of her studies of politicians’ (mis)perceptions of public support for climate policies to the Centre for Decision Research and members of the Analytics, Technology and Operations Department, Leeds University Business School. Estimates made by 600 politicians in Belgium and 100 UK MPs were compared to polling data...
We'd like to thank our speaker, Dr. Stuart Mills for taking the time to come and speak at our seminar series about Behavioural Sludge. The term ‘Sludge’ coined by Nobel laureate Richard Thaler (2018) emphasises the various ways in which some choices can be made harder. Stuart’s presentation gave a wide-ranging tour of sludging, sludge auditing, cumulative...
Junhao Liang, Xingjie Wei and Barbara Summers have had a new paper published titled - Tabular Image: A novel method that transforms tabular financial data into images to harness the power of deep neural networks for credit scoring. This paper created a novel data transformation technique that embeds crucial credit scoring measures, weight of evidence...
Take a look at Andrea Taylor's video on improving the visualisation for weather warnings. Dr Andrea Taylor, Associate Professor in Risk Communication, explores how different audiences respond to and interpret information and warnings. See link for video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSThqKY4SmY For more information on Leeds University Business School research on sustainability and the environment please see this link....
This summer CDR members held a one day workshop entitled The Future of Decision Research. A one day workshop dedicated to exploring opportunities for decision research is timely, as both the challenges to, and opportunities for, decision research have altered significantly and rapidly over recent years. Changes in the quality and availability of data and technological developments...
Gülbanu Kaptan has taken the role of Academic Champion for the only social and behavioural research priority area of Quadram Institute's Food Safety Research Network: Improving food safety in households. Alongside other academic and industry champions, Gulbanu will advise the leadership team on strategy and partnership opportunities. Backed by new BBSRC and Food Standards Agency funding,...
Gülbanu Kaptan Kemal Enes and Edgar Meyer have a new article: Food Safety and Waste Management in TV Cooking Shows: A Comparative Study of Turkey and the UK accepted in the open access MDPI Foods Journal. Abstract: This study examines food safety and waste behaviours depicted in the televised cooking competition MasterChef, a globally franchised series...
Romain Crastes dit Sourd, Gülbanu Kaptan and colleagues from the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds have a new article: Leverage points to improve resilience in supply chains: civil food resilience and food sovereignty accepted in Journal of Rural Studies. This is the outcome of their UKRI Strategic Priorities Fund project, 'Healthy Soils,...