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
The effects of communicating uncertainty on public trust in facts and numbers.
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
(2020)
201913678
(DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1913678117)
Hormone replacement therapy and the risk of breast cancer: How much should women worry about it?
– Post Reproductive Health
(2019)
25,
175
(DOI: 10.1177/2053369119898586)
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
– Royal Society open science
(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 Tob Res
(2019)
21,
336
(DOI: 10.1093/ntr/nty197)
18 The effects of communicating uncertainty about facts and numbers
– BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
(2018)
23,
a9
Commentary on Piumatti et al. 2018.
– Journal of Public Health (United Kingdom)
(2018)
40,
312
(DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdy038)
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)
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