CDR Workshop - The Future of Decision Research

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 in machine learning and AI have spawned new fields of enquiry and methodological innovations. Large-scale behavioural datasets, have revolutionized how researchers study decision processes; for instance, behavioural economists have demonstrated how "nudges" can promote retirement savings, while cognitive psychologists have identified biases exacerbating misinformation spread. Urgent global challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic and climate crisis highlight the need to study collective decision-making.  Other key developments are due to progress in decision research itself: interdisciplinary innovations inspired by decision research have led to the burgeoning development of conferences and journals in behavioural economics, neuroeconomics and applied behavioural policy.

Workshop Schedule