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
(2020)
(doi: 10.31234/osf.io/vbtg3)
Risk perceptions of COVID-19 around the world
– Journal of Risk Research
(2020)
23,
994
Introducing The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
– Numeracy
(2020)
13,
1
(doi: 10.5038/1936-4660.13.1.7)
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)
The Met Office Weather Game: investigating how different methods for presenting probabilistic weather forecasts influence decision-making
– Geoscience Communication
(2019)
2,
101
(doi: 10.5194/gc-2-101-2019)
Conducting fit-for-purpose food safety risk assessments.
– EFSA Journal
(2019)
17,
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)
The Art of Statistics Learning from Data
(2019)
Statistical and Knowledge‐Based Approaches to Clinical Decision‐Support Systems, with an Application in Gastroenterology
– Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General)
(2018)
147,
35
(doi: 10.2307/2981737)
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