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
Shielding from covid-19 should be stratified by risk.
– The BMJ
(2020)
369,
m2063
(DOI: 10.1136/bmj.m2063)
Risk perceptions of COVID-19 around the world
– Journal of Risk Research
(2020)
1
The effects of communicating uncertainty on public trust in facts and numbers.
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2020)
117,
7672
(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 & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
(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
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