Irene Mussio and colleagues have had an article published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene which takes a look at the risk trade-off approach for incorporating the public’s risk perceptions into quantitative microbial risk assessment Article overview: Risk assessment in public health often excludes community input when defining acceptable risk targets. Researchers, including Dr....
Panagiotis Stamolampros and colleagues have had a paper published in the International Journal of Hospitality Management which looks at ESG Practices through the lens of employees in hospitality: Insights from employee-generated data. This is the Abstract: Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices are garnering increased attention from hospitality companies, accompanied by a notable rise in awareness...
Jack Thompson and a colleague have had a paper published in American Political Science Review looking at the impact of violence towards LBTQ+ group members on prosocial attitudes towards this group. This is the Abstract: We present a Fickle Prosocial Violence Response Model to explain how indirect exposure to civilian-perpetrated violence against marginalized minority groups...
Barbara Summers online talk for FERNFH, Austria, "Ethical reasoning and decision making in tax practitioners" is now available online (link opens in a new tab): https://www.fernfh.ac.at/en/news/details/ethics-decision-making-the-role-of-tax-advisors-in-tax-avoidance-cases Abstract Tax avoidance is an issue that raises public concern in many countries. Internationally, this has become the focus of the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting initiative of the...
CDR had 2 talks at the 2024 Society for Risk Analysis Europe UK Chapter Meeting, from Peter Ayton and Andrea Taylor Why are aircraft accidents more likely if the captain rather than the co-pilot is at the controls? Peter Ayton, Tom Becker Should we name heatwaves? Findings from online experimental studies in England and Italy...
ABSTRACT Violations of transitive preference can be accounted for by both the noncompensatory lexicographic semiorder heuristic and the compensatory additive difference model. However, the two have not been directly compared. Here, we fully develop a simplified additive difference (SAD) model, which includes a graphical analysis of precisely which parameter values are consistent with adherence to,...
On Monday 25th November members of the Centre for Decision Research held a hybrid workshop on developing severe weather messaging for disaster risk reduction. The event was attended by over 30 representatives from meteorological services, policy, NGOs, academia and consultancy. They presented findings from the first year of a three year project funded by the Lloyds...
Xingjie Wei & colleagues have a paper accepted in the Journal of Corporate Finance which examines the effect of CEO political affiliation on decisions during the Covid pandemic. This is the Abstract: Using a hand-collected dataset, we study whether CEO political ideology affected S&P 500 firms’ reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. During the...
UNRISK (Understanding Uncertainty to Reduce Climate Risks) a new NERC Centre for Doctoral Training Centre involving University of Leeds, University College London and University of Exeter, will train students with the multidisciplinary knowledge and skills across climate science, data science and decision science to tackle the pressing challenge of reducing the risks associated with rapid...
Andrea Taylor and Barbara Summers are Co-Is on the new UNRISK NERC Centre for Doctoral Training. This centre, Understanding Uncertainty to Reduce Climate Risks, involves University of Leeds, University College London and University of Exeter, and will train students with the multidisciplinary knowledge and skills across climate science, data science and decision science to tackle...
