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
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
(2018)
21,
336
(doi: 10.1093/ntr/nty197)
18 The effects of communicating uncertainty about facts and numbers
– Oral Sessions
(2018)
23,
A9.2
Commentary on Piumatti et al. 2018.
– Journal of public health (Oxford, England)
(2018)
40,
312
(doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdy038)
Comments on Lindberg’s Correction for the Effects of Observer Variation on Probabilistic Diagnosis
– Methods of Information in Medicine
(2018)
21,
114
(doi: 10.1055/s-0038-1635398)
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)
Communicating risk in primary care: what the Academy of Medical Sciences' report means in practice.
– Br J Gen Pract
(2017)
67,
346
(doi: 10.3399/bjgp17x691793)
Discussion of "The ASA’s p-value statement, one year on" by Robert Matthews
– Significance
(2017)
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