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A new Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) has been awarded to SR Mailing and our academic team, Prof. Barbara Summers (academic lead), Dr. Peizhi Shi (academic supervisor), Dr. Xingjie Wei (academic support) and Aritad (Alan) Choicharoon (academic support). SR Mailing Ltd is a pioneering company in the sustainable packaging industry. Since 2014, it has specialised in...
Josh Weller has been elected as the next President Elect of EADM – the European Association for Decision Making. He will take up the post this summer and will become President of the Association in 2027. The European Association for Decision Making is an interdisciplinary association for those doing research in human judgment and decision...
The paper reporting key findings from the HIWeather workshops on IBFW has been published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. You can see the paper here (opens in a new tab): Research gaps and challenges for impact-based forecasts and warnings: Results of international workshops for High Impact Weather in 2022 - ScienceDirect The...
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...