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Vedran Lesic wins best student paper award

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Vedran Lesic being presented his award

PhD student and CDR member Vedran Lesic won the best student paper award at the Society for Risk Analysis conference in Lisbon. Vedran's supervisors and co-authors on the paper are Dr Matt Davis (STC) and Professor Wandi Bruine de Bruin (CDR) as well as Professor Ines Azevedo and Dr Tamar Krishnamurti at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Engineering and Public Policy. The winning paper was entitled: "Assessing consumers' perceptions of electricity use: Does providing reference points help?" and examined ways to improve how well consumers can assess how much energy is used by different household appliances.

Astrid Kause presented the paper ‘Framing climate uncertainty: Frame choices reveal and influence climate change beliefs’ (with Tarlise Townsend and Wolfgang Gaissmaier) at the Cambridge Risk and Uncertainty Conference, Cambridge, June 2017.

Members of the Centre for Decision Research recently travelled to the Society for Risk Analysis conference in Lisbon. Andrea Taylor chaired a session on public perceptions of climate change that included (among others) the following presentations:

  • Public priorities and expectations of climate change impacts in the United Kingdom by Andrea Taylor (CDR and Sustainabilty Research Institute) Suraje Dessai (Sustainability Research Institute), and Wandi Bruine de Bruin (CDR)
  • Understanding how non-experts talk about climate change impacts, risks and adaptation by PhD student Rachel Harcourt as well as her supervisors Wandi Bruine de Bruin (CDR), Suraje Dessai (Sustainability Research Institute), and Andrea Taylor (CDR and Sustainabilty Research Institute)
  • Failure to discriminate how long air pollution and carbon dioxide remain in the atmosphere by PhD student Rachel Dryden (Carnegie Mellon University) and her supervisors Granger Morgan (Carnegie Mellon University), Ann Bostrom (University of Washington), and Wandi Bruine de Bruin (CDR)

Wandi Bruine de Bruin also presented and co-authored:

  • Effects of pro- vs. anti-vaccine narratives on responses by recipients varying in numeracy: A cross-sectional survey-based experiment with Annika Wallin (Lund University), Andrew M. Parker (RAND), JoNell Strough (West Virginia University) and Janel Hanmer (University of Pittsburgh Medical School)
  • Promoting citizen’s resilience and adaptive potential to extreme heat weather events: the role of demands vs. resources appraisal with PhD student Samuel Domingos (ISPA-IU), Rui Gaspar (ISPA-IU, University of Algarve), Joao Maroco (ISPA-IU)
  • Environmental and health risks of household cleaning products: conventional vs green labelled products with PhD student Rachel Hollis and her other supervisors William Young (School of Earth and Environment), Chris Rayner (School of Chemistry).