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An evidence-based plan for addressing the autism assessment and support crisis (2024)
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Rutter, N., Ali, N., Purna Basu, A., Basuc, S., Bond, C., Bryant, E. J., Chapman, E., Chauhan, A., Chawner, S. J., Day, P., Douse, E., Eddy, L., Elshehaly, M., Fayette, R., Gladstone, M., Gray-Burrows, K., Guldberg, K., Harris, S., Hartley, C., Lunn, J., …Shaw, J. (2024). An evidence-based plan for addressing the autism assessment and support crisis. N8 Research - Child of the North

Inside UK Universities: Staff mental health and wellbeing during the coronavirus pandemic (2021)
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Dougall, I., Weick, M., & Vasiljevic, M. (2021). Inside UK Universities: Staff mental health and wellbeing during the coronavirus pandemic. [No known commissioning body]

This report documents the mental health and wellbeing of university staff during the coronavirus pandemic, using survey data collected online in March 2021 from 1,182 staff employed across 92 UK universities. Overall, the survey data suggest that uni... Read More about Inside UK Universities: Staff mental health and wellbeing during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Child of the North: Building a fairer future after COVID-19 (2021)
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Pickett, K., & Taylor-Robinson, D. (2021). The Child of the North: Building a fairer future after COVID-19. London: Northern Health Science Alliance and N8 Research Partnership

Children in the North are more likely to live in poverty than those in the rest of England – and increasingly so. Poverty is the lead driver of inequalities between children in the North and their counterparts in the rest of the country, leading to w... Read More about The Child of the North: Building a fairer future after COVID-19.

Religious and Race Hate Experience Survey: Report Findings (2019)
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Siddiqui, N., Towl, G., Matthewson, J., Stretesky, C., & Earnshaw, M. (2019). Religious and Race Hate Experience Survey: Report Findings

Widening participation, diversity and inclusion have become the main goals to achieve in the UK higher education expansion and widening participation agenda. In April 2018, the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Unit was awarded £50,000 from the Offic... Read More about Religious and Race Hate Experience Survey: Report Findings.

The underwriter and the models - solo dances or pas-de-deux? What policy data can tell us about how underwriters use models (2017)
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Armstrong, S., Weick, M., Sandberg, A., Snyder-Beattie, A., & Beckstead, N. (2017). The underwriter and the models - solo dances or pas-de-deux? What policy data can tell us about how underwriters use models. [No known commissioning body]

Using a collection of data on some of the catastrophe policies written since 2006 by a major reinsurance organisation, this paper explores how tightly underwriters follow the models and under what conditions they deviate from them.

Synergies between healthy and sustainable diets (2015)
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Bajzelj, B., Benton, T., Clark, M., Garnett, T., Marteau, T., Richards, K., Smith, P., & Vasiljevic, M. (2015). Synergies between healthy and sustainable diets. [No known commissioning body]

How attitude and behaviour affect our reactions to risk: The gorilla in the room (2014)
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Weick, M., & Vasiljevic, M. (2014). How attitude and behaviour affect our reactions to risk: The gorilla in the room. [No known commissioning body]

In this article, Mario Weick, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Kent and Milica Vasiljevic, Research Associate at the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge, discuss insights gained from social, cognitive,... Read More about How attitude and behaviour affect our reactions to risk: The gorilla in the room.

Reasoning about extreme events: A review of behavioural biases in relation to catastrophe risks (2013)
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Vasiljevic, M., Weick, M., Taylor-Gooby, P., Abrams, D., & Hopthrow, T. (2013). Reasoning about extreme events: A review of behavioural biases in relation to catastrophe risks. [No known commissioning body]

The present report outlines behavioural biases studied in the literature in relation to the way people reason about and respond to catastrophe risks. The project is led by the Lighthill Risk Network, in collaboration with a team of social and behavio... Read More about Reasoning about extreme events: A review of behavioural biases in relation to catastrophe risks.

Cognition: Minding Risks (2012)
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Weick, M., Hopthrow, T., Abrams, D., & Taylor-Gooby, P. (2012). Cognition: Minding Risks. [No known commissioning body]

Risk identification is one of the keys to successful risk management, but we are not equally aware of all risks. Because the brain filters information, people make decisions based on a subset of the available evidence. This fundamental principle of c... Read More about Cognition: Minding Risks.

Arts and kindness (2012)
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Broadwood, J., Bunting, C., Andrews, T., Abrams, D., & Van de Vyver, J. (2012). Arts and kindness. [No known commissioning body]