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CDR had 3 talks at the 2024 EMS (Meteorological Societies in Europe) Annual Meeting in Barcelona. Jack Thompson presented the results of a multi-level analysis of public risk perceptions of climate and weather, based on the Lloyds Register Foundation World Risk Poll and Sarah Jenkins presented work on public perceptions and behaviour in response to...
Wändi Bruine de Bruine and Gale Sinatra have a piece in The Conversation which looks at how Americans respond to different terms describing the issue of climate change. Respondents were more familiar with established terms like "climate change" and "glabal warming" and were more concered by these, with alternative terms like "climate crisis" not increasing...
On June 13-14th, CDR has hosted a workshop on non-market valuation and decision sciences. 40 delegates attended this research event and shared their work on innovative choice experiment designs, novel applications and alternative methods for measuring preferences for non-market goods. In addition to 20 presentations, there were keynotes from Wändi Bruine de Bruin and Klaus...
This research grant will investigate how data analytics initiatives advocated by companies impact equity prices and firm risk and whether they are beneficial for firm value. The project will investigate whether resources allocated to analytics departments are appreciated in the stock market and whether they can drive gains for equity holders or reduce their risks.
The textbook Smart Decisions: A Structured Approach to Decision Analysis using MCDA, covers the fundamentals of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis methods. Each chapter introduces a core MCDA method and guides the reader through a step-by-step approach to the implementation of the method using Microsoft Excel and R. Specifically it covers the techniques of weighted sum, AHP,...
Irene Mussio has an entry on the LUBS Research and Innovation Blog that talks about her research into how people trade off the health risks from climate change against other risks, like traffic accidents. You can read the blog here https://business.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/research-blog/2238/how-concerned-are-people-about-climate-related-risks-to-health
Verdiana Giannetti and Jieke Chen from the LUBS marketing department, along with Xingjie Wei have a new paper that sheds light on how the facial similarity of actors in Hollywood movies can significantly affect box office performance in East and South-East Asian (ESEA) countries. The research, published in the International Marketing Review, suggests that casting...
Andrea Taylor presented the interim results from the project funded by Lloyd’s Register Foundation “Analysing risk perception and preparedness to develop effective disaster risk communication strategies” at the WMO/WWRP Weather & Society Conference on 29th February. This conference covered a number of themes linked to the UN initiative Early Warnings for All, with Andrea’s presentation...
A new Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) has been awarded to a company Katchr and our academic team, Drs. Richard Hodgett (lead, CDR), Nabi Omidvar (School of Computing and LUBS), and Xingjie Wei (CDR). Katchr is a leader in software-based technology within the legal sector, has developed software that has significantly optimised data analytical capabilities for...
Junhao Liang, a PhD student at the Centre for Decision Research, made a presentation at the 18th meeting of the Credit Scoring and Credit Control conference at the University of Edinburgh held from August 30 to September 1, 2023. Junhao’s presentation, titled "Tabular Image: A Method to Convert Tabular Data to Images for Convolutional Neural...