The Risk Quotient 2024
The Risk Quotient (RQ) is a flagship conference which aims to spotlight individual and societal risks and threats through the lens of risk communication. It brings together leading scholars and experts from academia, industry, and governments to develop an integrative research and practice framework to help society navigate pertinent risk issues through improved decision making. […]
Choice Symposium Workshop: Consuming (and Communicating) Risk-Related Information for a Better World
In making everyday choices about food, medical treatment, transport, adopting/rejecting technologies, etc., people encounter scientific information and claims about risk. Many of these choices are critical to consumers’ physical and psychological well-being; yet, the information available to consumers is often difficult to comprehend, incomplete, or contradictory. Evidence is typically presented in probabilistic terms which people […]
Workshop: Getting to Net Zero
Meet the Panel! We are pleased to announce the panellists for the upcoming workshop on 13 September: Dr Wu Huijuan, Vice President, ESG Solutions, Sector Solutions Group, UOB Foo Tun Shien, Origination & Technical Analyst at Climate Impact X Ian Lim, Head of Consumers and Payments, Singapore Power Find out more the panellists here. People […]
Balancing our relationship with AI
There is increasing recognition that many situations can benefit from humans and AI working together. AIs far surpass humans in finding patterns in large quantities of data, but especially in complex, real settings, humans tend to have a deeper, more nuanced understanding of the context and the objectives. Interpretable machine learning—in which AIs make aspects […]
Art/Science Symposium 2022
A free one-day symposium hosted by Lloyd’s Register Foundation, in partnership with ArtScience Museum of Singapore and the Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk at NUS, exploring global perspectives on communicating science, data, and complexity through creativity. The symposium is aimed at practitioners involved in communicating science and data through art and brings together […]
Rumours, Myths and Misinformation – Why they stick in the world today and how to shift them
The rise of misinformation and the intention to deceive is challenging the way information and news is communicated. People’s consumption of (mis)information has spill over effects – influencing their attitudes and behaviours towards important topics such as COVID-19 and everyday lifestyle decisions. In this seminar, Prof Heidi Larson, Founding Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project, […]
Climate Workshop: Eco Anxiety vs Eco Solidarity
Organised by IPUR, this virtual workshop taking place on 3 June frm 9.30am-11.30am will feature a panel session to discuss the pertinent issues surrounding eco anxiety, and introduce eco solidarity and how it can be applied to turn worry into resilience. Highlights of the workshop include a panel session featuring: Dr Olivia Jensen, IPUR Lead […]
3 June 2022: Climate Action Workshop on Eco Anxiety vs Eco Solidarity
Understanding everyday life risk attitudes
Humans make judgments and decisions under conditions of uncertainty all the time in their everyday lives. We may perceive situations as risky if we are not sure if the outcomes, especially negative ones, will happen or not. Attitudes towards risk have long been of interest to researchers in psychology in order to understand its impact […]
Reducing Forecast Uncertainty of Ecosystem Changes in Climate Models by Analysis and Parallel Global Optimisation for Model Parameter Calibration
Climate change research has a linked system of models of the ocean, atmosphere and land. This talk, presented by Dr Yanyan Cheng and Prof Christine Shoemaker focuses on the land model used in climate change forecasting. As a main part of the Earth’s vegetation, tropical forests play a critical role in regulating carbon and water […]