BARBARA SUMMERS – BACK TO THE FUTURE (ARTICLE)

Dr. Barbara Summers is a Senior Lecturer in Decision Making at Leeds University Business School, where she also serves as the co-Director of the There is a centre for decision research. . Her research focuses on individual decision making from both cognitive and emotional perspectives, with application areas in health, marketing and pensions, where she collaborates with experts and organizations in those fields in the UK and abroad. Her work benefits from her previous commercial experience as Head of Systems Development at Equifax Europe UK, and she is an invited member of the Institute for Credit Management (the UK professional body for credit management). Barbara?s work is regularly published in peer-reviewed journals, and her work on financial decision making has informed the UK Department for Work and Pensions and NEST (the pension provider set up to meet the requirements of the Pensions Act 2008, which introduces auto-enrolment in pensions). Her recent work with Clydesdale Bank won an award from the UK Economic & Social Research Council. These projects formed the basis of an impact case study (read more here ). Current projects include work on the nature of financial risk perception, the emotional basis of risk preference, active components of patient decision aids, moral reasoning and motivations in the tax context, estimation of task duration, probability judgment, and the nature of financial risk perception.

Barbara Summers is actively involved in the European association for decision making. (EADM), and currently serves as President-Elect of the Association. She has been on the Scientific Committees for EADM?s conference, SPUDM 24, in Barcelona and for the first two EADM Summer Schools which were held at the University of Essex and the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn, Germany . She will chair the next committee for the association’s De Finetti Prize.

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