Covid19 showed us how susceptible to disruption our food chain is. #CDRLeeds Romain Crastes and Gulbanu Kaptan (@gulbanukaptan.bsky.social) have published a new review paper in the Journal of Rural Studies exploring short and long term approaches to make the food chain more resilient. ISSN 0743-0167
#CDRLeeds 's Simon Baal @svanbaal.bsky.social and colleagues have received an AFSG Minor Exploratory Grant (afsg.org) to improve use of the Problem Gambling Severity Index. They'll attempt identifying different problematic gambling profiles using the score and natural language processing tools.
Investors seem to enjoy reviewing successful past investments, while not paying enough attention to unsuccessful ones. A new paper by #CDRLeeds Edika Quispe-Torreblanca and colleagues shows how the joy of reviewing appealing information may interfere with acquiring new one. doi.org/10.1093/rest...
Massive congratulation to #CDRLeeds Richard Hodgett, for making it to Poets&Quants's 2025 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors, along with Professors from other top schools including MIT, Harvard, INSEAD, LBS and Wharton. Read all about it: shorturl.at/aB8Bi
Ecological and economic crises increasingly affect the resilience of food supply chains. But who should act? A new paper by #CDRLeeds Gülbanu Kaptan, Romain Crastes and colleagues highlights power dynamics within the fresh produce supply chain and clarifies governance. doi.org/10.1002/bse....
Would you like to extract and exploit textual data from the internet? No matter whether you want to analyse product reviews, or political opinions, #CDRLeeds 4-day workshop Webtext2Insight will teach you how to do it. 9-12 June 2025 in Leeds. More info and registration: shorturl.at/JCiKT
New paper published, entitled "Taxing fat versus behavioural interventions: Multiple discrete-continuous extreme value (MDCEV) models and the PCSHOP randomised trial of shopping behaviour"
Most British people eat too much #saturatedFat. #CDRLeeds David Palma and colleagues studied the effect of dietary advice, personalised shopping advice, and taxation, on reducing saturated fat in shopping baskets, using RCT data. Taxing + advice was most effective. doi.org/10.1016/j.he...
Irene Mussio (@irenemussio.bsky.social), from #CDRLeeds, has been awarded a small research grant from The #BritishAcademy for her project "Collaborative Solutions to Water Shortages in the Mekong River Delta", in partnership with Dr. Kiet Nguyen from University of Economics at Ho Chi Minh City.
There are still two more seminars to go in our Spring #CDRLeeds seminar series! We will be hearing about #DecisionSupport, #Healthcare and #Risk from our speakers. Join us on-campus or via Zoom. More details in: cdr.leeds.ac.uk/events/cdr-s...
Thank you very much to Shirley Zhang for presenting at our #CDRLeeds Spring Seminar Series, discussing the effect of #powerDistance, one Hofstede's cultural dimension, on the amount of trust people put on #AI systems.
Avoidable visits to #Emergency at #Hospitals reduce the quality of service for everyone. But reducing them requires patients recognising their visits as avoidable. #CDRLeeds Romain Crastes dit Sourd and colleagues found that low trust on GPs trigger more visits. #HealthPolicy doi.org/10.1016/j.he...
The harm caused by #gambling is not only mounting debts, but frayed relationships, sleepless nights, and the quiet despair. #CDRLeeds 's @svanbaal.bsky.social write about these in a new blog post (accesible here: shorturl.at/A16pv), based on his (and colleagues) new paper doi.org/10.1037/adb0...
#GlobalWarming has made #climateCommunication a critical aspect of #sustainability. But how has #riskPerception and #preparedness around the world changed? #CDRLeeds Andrea Taylor (@ataylor43.bsky.social) will be discussing this in a SRI seminar on Wed 19 March 4pm GMT. shorturl.at/FSFzL
Hybrid seminar: Navigating challenges and opportunities in operations research. Wednesday 19 March 2025, from 2pm to 3pm. Liberty Building room 1.11, University of Leeds. Or join through zoom at https://shorturl.at/SFW0u
#CDRLeeds and the Yorkshire & Humber Group of @theorsociety.bsky.social (YHORG) are happy to invite you to our first joint seminar, where Garry Fothergill and Francisco Saldanha will discuss the challenges and opportunities of Operations Research in industry and academia. Join us: shorturl.at/SFW0u
Despite progress in #women 's social an economic status, they experience worse #mentalHealth, greater negative affects, and lower #wellbeing than men. Edika Quispe, from #CDRLeeds, and colleagues, explore potential explanations in a new publication in #ScienceAdvances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A new Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) between SR Mailing Ltd industry and #CDRLeeds members Barbara Summers, Peizhi Shi, Xingjie Wei and Alan Choicharoon has been approved by #UKRI. The project seeks to incorporate #AI and #LLM technologies in the company operations to maximise sustainability.
Congrats to #CDRLeeds @joshweller.bsky.social 🎉, for being elected as President Elect of the European Association for Decision Making (EADM). He will become president of the association in 2027. EADM organises the biennial SPUDM conference and co-runs the journal Judgment and Decision Making.
#Sustainable #transport is a challenge across cities worldwide, but implementing new policies is expensive and risky. Yu Wang from @envleeds.bsky.social will discuss how using #VR can help simulate these changes and study travellers response in our next #CDRLeeds seminar. Sign up: shorturl.at/7VBwB
#Climate related events are expected to increase in severity in time, making warnings systems ever more critical. #CDRLeeds Andrea Taylor, along with colleagues, published a summary of 10 topics needing more research to make impact-based forecast and warning more efficient doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
When making a risky #decision, do you rely on an external measure of #risk, your own #experience, or a combination of both? Dr. Konstantinidis, will discuss how and when these data sources are combined, preferred, and used. Join us in the next spring #CDRLeeds seminar Wed 19 Feb shorturl.at/Z775C
Invitation to participate of CDR Seminar on Wednesday 12 February
Struggling with #decisionMaking? Try the new decision.help decision support tool currently being developed by a team of researchers in #CDRLeeds. The tool will be introduced in the first CDR Seminar of this season, we'd love to hear your feedback! Attend Wed 12 Feb shorturl.at/hNSy9
Itinerary of CDR spring seminar series, from February to April 2025
Spring is coming, and what better way to wait and welcome it than with a new #CDRLeeds seminar series? If you are interested in #decisionScience, #decisionSupport, #nudging, #consumer #behaviour and more, do not miss our hybrid seminars! cdr.leeds.ac.uk/events/cdr-s...
A company's Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices have an important impact not only on their environment, but also on their employees. Panagiotis Stamolampros from #CDRLeeds and colleagues show how ESG practices are linked to higher employee satisfaction in doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
