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
57 Improving the reporting of medical risks and benefits in the media: the press alert app
– Poster Sessions
(2018)
23,
a28
49 The basis of evidence-informed policymaking: communicating the potential impacts of policies
– Poster Sessions
(2018)
23,
a24
Commentary on Piumatti et al. 2018
– J Public Health (Oxf)
(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)
The use of control charts in health-care and public-health surveillance - Discussion
– Journal of Quality Technology
(2018)
38,
124
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)
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)
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