Is urban living = healthy living?
Are you living in a highly urbanised environment? Do you long for walks in a park during a lockdown? Do you find it stressful when you are in a crowded train? Do you find it uncomfortable if there is too much noise or light at night while you are trying to sleep? Chances are that […]
Improve risk literacy in 6 weeks
We make decisions every day that carry a degree of risk. For example, we choose to jaywalk instead of going a little further to cross at a traffic light, or we choose not to bring out an umbrella because of how inconvenient it is to carry. We face bigger decisions too: whether to get vaccinated […]
Presentation on climate change communicators in Singapore & Thailand
Much has been learnt about public awareness and understanding of climate change. Many of the structural and behavioral obstacles to moving societies from climate concern to action have been identified. However, less is known about climate change communicators, though their contributions are critical to success. In evaluating risks from sea level rise, for example, communicators focused […]
Workshop to inspire youth to take action against climate change
We are all now living in a world of environmental degradation and climate change, with many people fearing that the next generation will be the last to make a positive difference on the environment. In conjunction with World Environment Day, IPUR is organising a “Youth in Action: Taking on Climate Change” virtual workshop on 4 June, […]
The Risk Quotient 2020
We’re delighted to announce the third instalment of The Risk Quotient is set to take place on 29 October! The Risk Quotient is an annual dialogue presented by Lloyd’s Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk of the National University of Singapore (IPUR) to improve the understanding of risk and ground better decision-making. […]
The Risk Quotient 2019
IPUR’s annual conference, The Risk Quotient, is happening on 20 October 2019 (Sunday) in Beijing! Jointly organised with Tsinghua University’s School of Public Policy & Management and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, the theme for this year’s conference the governance of risks arising from ABCD (Artificial Intelligence, Block Chain, Cloud Computing, Data & Emerging […]
Risk communication in public health of today
Risk communication is an essential part in public health. However, it has been considered the weakest area in many countries by the World Health Organization. Communicating risks in a responsible manner aiming to protect people’s health, and sharing information to ensure successful response, are main elements in any public health campaign. The mass media is […]
Co-Designing Technology and Policy for High-Risk Technologies
Since the Alpha-Go shock of March 2016, global public discourse on information technologies has taken a distinct turn. Although the last two decades have seen numerous political, economic or social changes sparked by digital technologies including globalization and the Arab Spring, the recent technological development driving the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is increasingly casting […]