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Publications Richard Hodgett has had his paper - “Supporting the multi-criteria decision aiding process: R and the MCDA package” – accepted for publication in EURO Journal on Decision Processes Wandi Bruine de Bruin co-authored a chapter entitled "Individual differences in decision-making competence in different age groups (with Andrew Parker at RAND), to be published in...

The Centre for Decision Research welcomes Astrid Kause to the team

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Astrid Kause has recently joined Leeds University Business School, the Centre for Decision Research, and the Priestley Centre for Climate as a new postdoc working on climate change communications. She is working in collaboration with Professor Wandi Bruine de Bruin (the Business School), Professor Suraje Dessai (School of Earth and Environment), and Dr Andrea Taylor...

Member updates

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Papers Barbara Summers has had the following paper accepted for publication: Duxbury, Darren & Summers, Barbara (in press), On Perceptions of Financial Volatility in Price Sequences, European Journal of Finance. Gulbanu Kaptan has had the following two papers accepted: Kaptan G., Fischer A.R.H., & Frewer L.J. Extrapolating understanding of food risk perceptions to emerging food...

EU Project on Improving Emergency Evacuations

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Dr Natalie van der Wal has received a two-year EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (worth ~200k in euros) to work with Professor Wandi Bruine de Bruin in the Centre for Decision Research and Leeds University Business School. Dr van der Wal is currently an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam....

Recent highlights

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Publications Sajid Siraj has had two papers accepted for publication: “NS-2 Based Simulation Framework for Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks”, Wireless Networks, Springer (ISSN:1022-0038) “PRACB: A Novel Channel Bonding Algorithm for Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks”, IEEE Access, IEEE (ISSN:2169-3536) Conferences Wandi Bruine de Bruin chaired a tribute to Baruch Fischhoff at the Society for Judgment and...

Conferences and blog posts

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Alan Pearman gave an invited paper at the European Road Infrastructure Congress held at the Armouries in Leeds, 18th – 20th October 2016.  His paper was entitled ‘Two hundred and forty-four years of decision research in Leeds: is our road infrastructure any the better?’. Barbara Summers gave an invited talk entitled - “What’s my motivation?”...

Professor Wandi Bruine de Bruin gives presentation at the University of Trieste

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Professor Wandi Bruine de Bruin gave a presentation on 24 October at the University of Trieste's Department of Life Sciences, on the topic of "Behavioural decision making approaches to developing effective communications". Professor Bruine de Bruin also met with CDR member Alessia Rosi for a project meeting with Fabio Del Missier, associate professor, who has research...

CDR members’ paper is tenth most accessed

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A paper written by Andrea Taylor (first author), Wandi Bruine de Bruin and Suraje Dessai was the tenth most accessed paper on the Risk Analysis website during 2015. The paper – “Climate change beliefs and perceptions of weather-related changes in the United Kingdom” (2014) – is available to view online. You can see the full list of most accessed papers on the Wiley...

Action Plan Launched for Delivering Shared Decision Making in the UK

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Professors Hilary Bekker (School of Medicine, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences) and Barbara Summers (CDR co-director, Leeds University Business School) are part of the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Shared Decision Making Collaborative. The Shared Decision Making Collaborative launched their action plan and consensus statement for delivering Shared Decision Making in the UK on Monday 19 September 2016....

Summer Activities

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Conference papers and awards Barbara Summers presented “Thinking About Decision Making on Behalf of Adults Who Can No Longer Make Decisions for Themselves” with Helen Convey and Janet Holt at the 13th World Congress of the International Association of Bioethics, Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC), June 2016. Rob Ranyard was invited to present “The psychology of borrowing...