Half-Day workshops will be held in-person 3pm Wednesday the 31st of January. You must register in advance to attend a workshop when purchasing your registration. Workshops are free for conference attendees. Both workshops will be running from 3pm – 6pm, you will need to choose which one you would like to attend.
Spaces are limited, get in quick!
Speaker: Anca Hanea
Description: Expert judgement may be required to inform a range of tasks under uncertainty, including, model development, estimates of probabilities and quantities, and to inform prioritisation tasks. In this workshop we concentrate on the elicitation and aggregation of expert judgements related to uncertain events and quantities. For quantitative estimates, a common approach is to elicit a point estimate. However, there are strong theoretical and practical arguments to say that the proper representation of experts’ knowledge about uncertain quantities is through probability distributions.
Repeated evidence also indicates that these judgements should be elicited from multiple experts. However, challenges arise when the model requires a single probability distribution, which means that the various judgements must be aggregated. This aggregation can be done by the experts themselves, through a process of interaction that is designed to encourage consensus (behavioural aggregation). Alternatively, it may be done externally, by applying an aggregation formula (mathematical aggregation). We will present and motivate a third (combined) way of aggregation which combines the IDEA protocol for structured expert judgement with the mathematical aggregation scheme of the Classical Model (CM) (i.e. the weighted linear combination of judgements, where weights are calculated based on experts’ prior performance on similar tasks).
At the end of this workshop participants will be familiar with both the IDEA and the CM protocols. They will benefit from short hands on exercises, lecture style explanations, a list of relevant literature, and relevant contacts in the field. The workshop is aimed at professionals, academics, policymakers, regulators, and (MSc, PhD) students who are, or will soon be involved in decision problems or risk analysis modelling with scarce resources, and insufficient data.
Speaker: Sandra Seno-Alday
Description: This workshop highlights the common blind spots when developing an academic journal article for publication. The session breaks down the writing process into stages, identifies pitfalls at each stage, and recommends practical ways to avoid these pitfalls. The aim is to help ensure that scholars come closer to the goal of publishing their work for the academic audience. Participants are encouraged to bring along draft papers (at any stage of writing) to use as workshop material.
