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
49 The basis of evidence-informed policymaking: communicating the potential impacts of policies
– BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
(2018)
23,
A24.2
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)
The Spring Lecture: Communicating risks and uncertainty by Sir David John Spiegelhalter - Abstract of the lecture
– British Actuarial Journal
(2017)
22,
237
(doi: 10.1017/s1357321717000149)
Editorials: Communicating risk in primary care: What the Academy of Medical Sciences' report means in practice
– The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
(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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