This paper look at citizens’ preferences for reducing the use of glyphosate (a controversial herbicide) by the means of taxation and /or regulation instruments has been accepted for publication in PLoS One. In 2023, the European Union will vote on the reauthorization of glyphosate use, renewed in 2017 despite concern on impacts on the environment...
David gave a presentation at the 16th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research entitled "An MDCEV model with unknown budget"and a seminar at the Department of Transport and Logistic from Universidad de Chile’s Engineering School entitled "Comparing MDCEV and eMDC models for time use in the presence of multitasking". Abstracts and links to slides for...
Sarah Jenkins has been awarded funding to work with the Risk Unit at the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS). She will primarily be working on the monitoring, development and evaluation of PRISM – the new product risk assessment tool for supporting product safety practitioners. She will also be conducting research on hazard predictors...
A paper authored by Romain Crastes dit Sourd on a new statistical distribution for avoiding extreme willingness-to-pay estimates derived from discrete choice models has been accepted for publication in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics (ABS 3) The paper introduces a new shifted negative log-normal distribution for the price parameter in mixed multinomial logit models....
Scholars studying servitization argue that manufacturers moving into services need to develop new job roles or modify existing ones, which must be enacted by employees with the right mentality, skill sets, attitudes and capabilities. However, there is a paucity of empirical research on how such changes affect employee-level outcomes. The authors theorize that job enrichment...
Gulbanu Kaptan (Co-I) has been awarded a Research England Policy Support Funding, in collaboration with Alessandro Biraglia (PI) and Luca Sabini (Co-I) to identify and classify the UK legislations that prevent (or bolster) food upcycling practices at national and local levels, develop a roadmap recommending policy amendments, and connect policymakers and businesses in the Leeds...
Joshua Weller's work was highlighted in a piece on teaching children about risk on the BBC Future website: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221101-how-to-teach-kids-to-make-great-choices He talks about how decision making competetence predicts many life outcome, with teens who score low on this measure having higher drug use and more delinquent behavior. The measure can predict serious outcomes for adults...
The Business Analytics and Decision Sciences postgraduate students (Gaurav Kumar, Mary Avelin, Ali A Khan, Didar Cherniyazova and Ahmad Ammash) from the University of Leeds - Business School competed and won first place in the ASDA hackathon which focused on various aspects of supply chain. They were faced with a problem statement of identifying additional...
A number of students from our MSc Business Analytics & Decision Sciences programme presented their research in a mini-conference led by Sarah Jenkins and Helen Roberts in collaboration with the Met Office. The students were supervised by colleagues in the Met office (Rosie Oakes, Helen Roberts and Martin Veasey) along with our CDR members (Aritad...
David gave a seminar entitled “A discrete-continuous approach for simultaneous modelling of time-use and expenditure" Abstract: Interest in time-use modelling has increased significantly during the last few years, especially as activity-based modelling becomes the dominating approach for large-scale transport modelling. The objective of time-use modelling is to understand and predict people’s engagement in activities throughout...
