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A number of scholarship opportunities are available at Leeds University Business School and the University of Leeds, covering both UK and International applicants. The Centre for Decision Research is keen to encourage applications from students wishing to undertake a PhD in the area of decision research, and would be interested in discussing potential projects with...
Andrea Taylor and her colleagues - (Hellen Msemo, Cathryn Birch, Tamora James, Andrew Hartley, Sarah Chapman, Andy Dougill, Michael Baidu, Simon Peatman). Have published a new paper - Interdisciplinary assessment of Tanzanian Severe Weather forecasts: Linking Verification and User Evaluation. Focussing on weather forecasting services in Tanzania, the paper explores how technical assessments of forecast accuracy...
Josh has been appointed Associate Editor of the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. The role involves supporting the review and development of research in judgement and decision making, a field directly relevant to Business and Management through its applications to consumer behaviour, risk, financial and organisational decision making. Behavioural decision-making research helps us understand how...
CDR welcomes Dr Alessia Dorigoni. Dr Dorigoni is a Lecturer in Behavioural Decision Making at Leeds University Business School (LUBS), University of Leeds, within the Analytics, Technology and Operations Department (ATOD). Prior to joining the University of Leeds, Dr Dorigoni spent approximately ten years conducting experimental research at the Consumer Neuroscience Laboratory at the University...
Josh received the HSRI Senior Fellowship from the Tilburg University. In recognition of his research on judgement and decision making, individual differences, and how decision-making develops and changes across the lifespan. Josh’s work examines why people make different choices, particularly in contexts involving risk and uncertainty, and how factors such as personality, self-regulation, motivation and...
At the Decision Making Across the Lifespan workshop at Tilburg University, 12-13th October, Dr Joshua Weller, gave a keynote exploring how the ways we make decisions develop and change throughout our lives. Drawing on research spanning risk-taking, personality, self-regulation and greed, Joshua argued that age alone tells us only part of the story. People of...
UNRISK (Understanding Uncertainty to Reduce Climate Risks) a NERC Centre for Doctoral Training Centre involving University of Leeds, University College London and University of Exeter, trains 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 climate change....
The research investigates the factors influencing the adoption of Demand Responsive Transport (DRT) services in the UK. It finds that travellers' perceptions of the existing public transport (PT) system significantly influence DRT adoption, beyond the effects of conventional service attributes. Consequently, simply providing attractive DRT service characteristics may not achieve the desired uptake if prevailing...
A PhD researcher from the Centre for Decision Research in the Analytics, Technology and Operations Department has been awarded the Tom Lupton Prize on the same day he graduated. The prize recognises his paper "Tabular Image: a method to convert tabular data to images for convolutional neural networks", co-authored with his supervisors Dr Xingjie Wei...
Academics from the Centre for Decision Research in the Analytics, Technology and Operations Department at Leeds University Business School shared emerging impact from the University of Leeds and SR Mailing Knowledge Transfer Partnership at AI Research at Leeds 2026: From Ideas to Real-World Impact, hosted by the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics at Nexus on 8 July...