People

Name	School	Areas of expertise
Professor David Allen	Leeds University Business School	Information use and behaviour; implications of new technologies for decision making and other management processes
Professor Peter Ayton	Leeds University Business School	Behavioural decision theory. How people make judgments and decisions under conditions of risk, uncertainty and ambiguity.
Professor Inês M L Azevedo	Carnegie Mellon University	Decision making under uncertainty in energy, environmental and climate change
Jozef Bavolar	Pavol Jozef Šafárik University	Individual differences in decision making competencies (statistical reasoning, framing effect) and decision-making styles and their real-life correlates
Professor Hilary Bekker	University of Leeds, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences	International expert in patient decision aid development, implementation and evaluation, enabling professionals to support patients informed and shared decision making about healthcare.
Dr Nicola Bown	Leeds University Business School	Individual decision making; strategic decision making under conditions of risk and uncertainty; individual career decision making and planning; the relationship between personal and social identity and behaviour at work
Dr Neil Boyle	University of Leeds, School of Psychology	The relationship between stress and and eating behaviour
Dr Konstantinos Bozos	Leeds University Business School	Strategic investment decisions: content, context & processes; the components and determinants of success in strategic investment decisions; management accounting; practices for decision support
Professor Wändi Bruine de Bruin	Sol Price School of Public Policy, USC	Individual differences in decision making across the life span; risk perception and communication; financial; health and environmental
Chiara Calastri	University of Leeds, Institute for Transport Studies	Discrete choice modelling; travel behaviour research; social influence on choice behaviour
Dr Militza Callinan	Leeds University Business School	Individual differences in decision making; impacts of group assessment contexts, and of self-presentation strategies, on personnel decisions
Dr Alycia Chin	Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; Visiting Researcher at Leeds University Business School	Information disclosure, stock market expectations, moral judgments of consumer bankruptcy, and mortgage choice.
Dr Charisma Choudhury	University of Leeds, Institute for Transport Studies	Behaviour modelling and discrete choice analysis; traffic microsimulation; transport modelling using big data sources; transportation in developing countries
Helen Convey	School of Healthcare	Proxy decision making on behalf of people who are living with dementia; Construal Level Theory
Dr Romain Crastes dit Sourd	Leeds University Business School	Choice Modelling
Dr Fabio Del Missier	University of Trieste	Attentional and memory processes underlying judgment and decision making; individual differences in decision-making competence
Professor Suraje Dessai	University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment	Quantification and management of uncertainty, perception of risk and the science-policy interface in climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability
Professor Julie Downs	Carnegie Mellon University	Social aspects of decision making; health; behavioural interventions, technology
Professor Darren Duxbury	Newcastle University Business School	Individual decision making, broadly classified into the complementary areas of experimental and behavioral accounting / economics / finance
Professor Louise Dye	University of Leeds, School of Psychology	Decision-making and eating behaviour
Wiebke Eberhardt	Maastricht University	Financial decision making; pension communication; aging and decision making
Dr Gabriella Eriksson	Leeds University Business School, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow	Applying risk communication strategies to reduce speeding-related risks
Professor Baruch Fischhoff	Carnegie Mellon University	Individual differences in decision making competence; expert judgment; risk regulation; energy and environment
Dr Tony Fowkes	University of Leeds, Institute for Transport Studies	(Logit) models of transport related decision making
Dr Joanne Greenhalgh	University of Leeds, School of Sociology and Social Policy	Communication in multidisciplinary teams; the role of patient reported outcome measures in communication between patients and clinicians; realist evaluation and realist synthesis
Dr Russell Gurbutt	University of Bolton	Clinical; management
Dr Constantinos Hadjichristidis	Leeds University Business School	How people reason, judge and decide; impact of foreign language; moral judgement; probability judgement
Rachel Harcourt	Leeds University Business School and School of Earth and Environment	Climate change communications, perception of climate risk and decision making. Her current project is in identifying and analysing climate change narratives from the media and determining how these might impact an individual’s climate response
Dr Eva Heinen	University of Leeds, Institute for Transport Studies	Travel behaviour change; transport mode shift; active travel (walking and cycling); variability and stability of behaviour; built environment; attitudes
Professor Stephane Hess	University of Leeds, Institute for Transport Studies	Advanced discrete choice models; travel behaviour research; data for choice modelling; air travel demand; heterogeneity in willingness to pay measures
Dr Richard Hodgett	Leeds University Business School	Decision-making techniques including multi-objective optimisation and multi-attribute methods, techniques to mitigate or evaluate uncertainty, innovation and product development, enterprise and commercialisation
Denise Hoffman	University of Leeds, School of Psychology	The effects of PKU on cognition and appetite, and factors influencing decisions on adherence
Rachel Hollis	University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment	Consumer decision making regarding green cleaning products, consumer perceptions of chemicals
Dr Janet Holt	School of Healthcare
Mark Houghton	Leeds University Business School	The roles of framing, perception/ attention and internal representation in judgement and decision making
Dr Cath Jackson	University of York, Health Sciences	Individual consumer decision making
Dr Gulbanu Kaptan	Leeds University Business School	Judgement and decision making, with special interest in food-related risk/benefit perception and communication; values and cross-cultural comparisons
Dr Astrid Kause	Leeds University Business School	How individuals communicate and behave in the face of uncertain and complex challenges
Dr Emmanouil Konstantinidi		Cognitive psychology and decision-making with an emphasis on mathematical and computational modelling of the underlying psychological and cognitive processes
Dr Tamar Krishnamurti	Carnegie Mellon University	Individual judgment and decision making; behavioural interventions (and health); risk perception and communication
Dr Clare Lawton	University of Leeds, School of Psychology	Decision-making and eating behaviour
Dr Carmen Lefevre	UCL	Appearance-based cues to behaviour and personality; facial morphometrics; public perceptions of weather and climate change
Dr Vedran Lesic	Leeds University Business School	Consumers' perceptions of energy use; environmental decision-making
Dr Caezilia Loibl	The Ohio State University	Household finance; consumer behaviour; behavioural economics; financial education and financial planning, public policy evaluation
Dr Susanne Lorenz	University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment	Communication and use of climate information for adaptation decision-making; the framing, perception and comprehension of climate information visualisations by different users
Professor John Maule	Leeds University Business School	Time pressure and decision making; the psychology of decision making
Dr Julia Maz	University of Leeds, School of Healthcare	Patient/family/significant other decision making particularly within the context of chronic disabling conditions
Dorothy McCaughan	University of York, Health Sciences	Health care professionals' decision making
Dr Simon McNair	Leeds University Business School	Financial; the role of emotions in decision making; probabilistic reasoning
Dr David Meads	University of Leeds, Institute for Transport Studies	Decision modelling and decision making in health, analysis of choice and preferences, behavioural economics
Dr Aaron Meskin	University of Leeds, School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science	Values and eating behaviour; Experimental aesthetics
Professor Granger Morgan	Carnegie Mellon University	Risk analysis; risk perception and communication; climate change; decarbonizaton of the energy system; problems of the modern electric power system; characterization and treatment of uncertainty
Dr Yasmina Okan	Leeds University Business School	Designing graphical displays for risk communication, contextual and emotional factors in moral judgement and decision making
Dr Andrew Parker	RAND Corporation	Decision-making competence; individual differences in decision making; decision making under risk; policy and decision making
Professor Alan Pearman	Leeds University Business School	Multi-criteria decision making; risk analysis; policy and project evaluation; stakeholder engagement
Sonja Perkovic	Leeds University Business School	Consumers' decision making processes regarding organic food products; process-tracing.
Hannah Preston	Leeds University Business School	Manages communications and events for the Centre
Professor Rob Ranyard	Leeds University Business School (Visiting Professor)	The psychology of decision making; economic psychology
Professor DK Theo Raynor	University of Leeds, School of Healthcare	Decision making by patients about medicines; what information do they need to balance the possible benefits and harms?
Dr Chris Riley	Leeds University Business School	The behavioural underpinnings of investor under-reaction and over-reaction investigated using experimental techniques and market data
Alessia Rosi	University of Pavia	Ageing and decision making; individual differences in decision making across the life span
Dr Sally Russell	University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment	Behaviour change for sustainability
Dr Nicky Shaw	Leeds University Business School	Performance management, decision support and social network analysis
Dr Sajid Siraj	Leeds University Business School	Decision making with and without data; multi-criteria decision making techniques and their use in decision support systems
Dr Samuel Smith	Leeds Institute of Health Sciences	Decision-making in the context of cancer prevention and control, with a particular emphasis on reducing socioeconomic inequalities in cancer behaviours and outcomes
Panagiotis Stamolampros	Leeds University Business School	Panagiotis research interest is at the intersection of Marketing, Operations, and Finance.
Professor Eric Stone	Wake Forest University	Designing graphical displays for risk communication; self-other decision making
JoNell Strough	West Virginia University	Ageing and decision making; life span developmental psychology; gender development
Professor Barbara Summers	Leeds University Business School	Individual decision making
Dr Andrea Taylor	Leeds University Business School	Communication of risk and uncertainty; the role of emotion and numeracy in choice; public perceptions of weather and climate change
Dr Natalie van der Wal	Leeds University Business School	agent-based modeling, evacuation simulation, group decision, group affect
Annika Wallin	Lund University	Individual decision making; rationality; process tracing
Dr Xingjie Wei	Leeds University Business School	Social computing, big data, social data mining, social network analysis