Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk
Research Interests: Public understanding of uncertainty and risk, Bayesian methods, biostatistics, performance assessment
Examples sheets and lecture notes can be found on my teaching page.
Publications
Conducting fit‐for‐purpose food safety risk assessments
– EFSA Journal
(2019)
17,
ARTN e170707
(DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2019.e170707)
Communicating uncertainty about facts, numbers and science
– R Soc Open Sci
(2019)
6,
181870
(DOI: 10.1098/rsos.181870)
Winners and losers: communicating the potential impacts of policies
– Palgrave Communications
(2018)
4,
69
(DOI: 10.1057/s41599-018-0121-9)
Communicating health risks in science publications: time for everyone to take responsibility.
– BMC Medicine
(2018)
16,
207
(DOI: 10.1186/s12916-018-1194-4)
Winners and Losers: Communicating the Potential Impacts of Policies: Commentary on Zeller.
– Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
(2019)
21,
336
(DOI: 10.1093/ntr/nty197)
Commentary on Piumatti et al. 2018
– Journal of Public Health (United Kingdom)
(2018)
40,
312
(DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdy038)
18 The effects of communicating uncertainty about facts and numbers
– Oral Sessions
(2018)
23,
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Comparing comprehension and perception for alternative speed-of-ageing and standard hazard ratio formats
– Applied Cognitive Psychology
(2018)
32,
81
(DOI: 10.1002/acp.3381)
Comparing What to What, on What Scale? The Impact of Item Comparisons and Reference Points in Communicating Risk and Uncertainty
– Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
(2018)
31,
547
(DOI: 10.1002/bdm.2073)
Trust in numbers
– Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)
(2017)
180,
948
(DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12302)
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