CDR members’ paper is tenth most accessed

A paper written by Andrea Taylor (first author), Wandi Bruine de Bruin and Suraje Dessai was the tenth most accessed paper on the Risk Analysis website during 2015.

The paper – “Climate change beliefs and perceptions of weather-related changes in the United Kingdom” (2014) – is available to view online. You can see the full list of most accessed papers on the Wiley Online Library website.

Andrea has also had a new paper accepted: Otto J, Brown C, Buontempo C, Doblas-Reyes F, Jacob D, Juckes M, Keup-Thiel E, Kurnik B, Schulz J, Taylor AL et al. (In Press). Uncertainty: Lessons learned for climate services. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. (Impact factor: 7.929)

Dinos Hadjichristidis has had a paper accepted for publication in Journal of International Business Studies, ABS 4. The paper - "How foreign language affects decisions: Rethinking the brain drain model" - is co-authored with Janet Geipel and Luca Surian.

Economic psychology: the science of economic mental life and behaviour. Wiley: Chichester, (in the British Psychological Society Textbook series), edited by Rob Ranyard, has gone into production for publication in 2017, with chapters by Wandi Bruine de Bruin, Simon McNair, Cäzilia Loibl and Rob Ranyard.7.929

Andrea gave a talk at the International Conference on Climate Science and Climate Services in Exeter this month entitled: “Communicating Confidence and Uncertainty in Seasonal Forecasts”.

She also presented “Validating Communication: A test of strategies for communicating uncertainty in seasonal climate prediction” with Suraje Dessai at the European Meteorological Society Annual Conference in Trieste, Italy, in September.

Hannah Preston, who provides administrative and communications support for the Centre for Decision Research, has been promoted to Research Support Officer.