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Romain Crastes dit Sourd - Effect of respondent engagement on data quality in travel behaviour and retrospective mobility surveys

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Romain Crastes dit Sourd (together with Chiara Calastri) has published a Chapter in Mobility and Travel Behaviour Across the Life Course. This new book synthesises quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods to contribute to conceptual, methodological and empirical advancements in the field of transport research. The Chapter aims to investigate through a quantitative analysis the difference...

Alan Pearman - workshop at the UN

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Alan Pearman recently collaborated with Dr Robert M. Anderson , President of McDonald Anderson, a New York based consultancy, to deliver one of a series of (virtual) workshops on executive decision making and communications for United Nations staff.

Sajid Siraj - Inconsistency correction in the analytic heirarchy process

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The analytic hierarchy process is a widely used multi-criteria decision-making method that involves the construction of pairwise comparison matrices. To infer a decision, a consistent or near-consistent matrix is desired, and therefore, several methods have been developed to control or improve the overall consistency of the matrix. However, controlling the overall consistency does not necessarily...

Andrea Taylor - Communicating uncertainty in climate information in China

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Uncertainty is an inherent characteristic of climate forecasts and projections. While there is an expanding body of international research focussed on identifying what climate information users need to know about uncertainty, and how this should be communicated, very little of this has been conducted in a Chinese cultural context. This paper reports on the findings...

John Maule - The benefits of using icons to generate mental models

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The chapter (with Angela Cassidy) presents an innovative approach for capturing the mental models of food chains held by the public and other stakeholders such as food producers, scientists and retailers, based on using icons depicting key elements such as farms, factories, lorries, supermarkets, kitchens. Through group discussion different stakeholder groups used these icons and...

Yasmina Okan - When IPCC graphs can foster or bias understanding

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To develop effective climate change policy, decision-makers need to have the best possible understanding of the available climate science. The IPCC Assessment Reports therefore aim to lay the foundation for informed political decision-making by providing policy-relevant information. But how successful are IPCC reports at communicating key findings? Although IPCC reports display key information in graphs,...

Rob Ranyard & Andrea Taylor - intransitivity and transitivity of preferences

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Transitive preference, i.e., if you prefer apples to bananas and bananas to cherries, you also prefer apples to cherries, is a basic property of some influential rational choice models. Contrary to this, Tversky, in his seminal 1969 article, presented evidence of intransitive preferences in two contexts, one of which involved choices between simple monetary lotteries....

Alan Pearman - Workshops for the UN

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As part of the United Nations Secretariat Executive Management Programme to which he contributes for the UN System Staff College, Alan Pearman recently took part in a series of virtual workshops on Communication and Executive Decision Making with United Nations staff from all over the world.  

The impact of reproductive issues on womens' preferences for treatment of multiple sclerosis

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Yasmina Okan has been involved in a project looking at how reproductive issues affect womens' preferences for treatments for relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis. Relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) is an incurable disease characterised by relapses (periods of function loss) followed by full or partial recovery, and potential permanent disability over time. Although treatments exist that can...

Alan Pearman advising Airlines UK on testing based alternatives to quarantine

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Together with colleagues from the University of Leeds Medical School and from the University of Manchester, Alan Pearman is one of a team of academics advising Airlines UK on testing-based alternatives to the Government’s current 14-day quarantine requirement for airline passengers arriving in the UK from countries deemed to be high risk in terms of...