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.
– BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
(2020)
369,
m2063
(doi: 10.1136/bmj.m2063)
The effects of communicating uncertainty on public trust in facts and numbers.
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
(2020)
117,
7672
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.1913678117)
Introducing <em>The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data</em>
– Numeracy
(2020)
13,
1
(doi: 10.5038/1936-4660.13.1.7)
Risk perceptions of COVID-19 around the world
– Journal of Risk Research
(2020)
23,
994
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)
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