There are three workshops available at this year's conference.
Mon Nov 20, 9am-5pm: Introduction to Bayesian Networks with Dr Steven Mascaro and Dr Owen Woodberry
Thurs Nov 23, 9am-12pm: Transparency, reproducibility and open science with Associate Professor Fiona Fidler and Dr Ascelin Gordon
​Thurs Nov 23, 1pm-4pm: Uniting risk analyses and structured decision making with Professor Mark Burgman
All workshops will be held in Lectorial Room 156, Arts West - North Wing

Workshop presenter: Professor Mark Burgman

Mark is Director of the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Conservation Biology. Previously, he was Director of the Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis (CEBRA) and Adrienne Clarke Chair of Botany at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He works on expert judgement, ecological modelling, conservation biology and risk assessment. He has written models for biosecurity, medicine regulation, marine fisheries, forestry, irrigation, electrical power utilities, mining, and national park planning. He received a BSc from the University of New South Wales (1974), an MSc from Macquarie University, Sydney (1981), and a PhD from the State University of New York at Stonybrook (1987). He worked as a consultant ecologist and research scientist in Australia, the United States and Switzerland during the 1980s before joining the University of Melbourne in 1990. He joined CEP in February, 2017. He has published over two hundred and fifty refereed papers and book chapters and seven authored books. He was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 2006.
As well as giving a keynote address on The quality of reasoning in the intelligence game, Mark will also be running a workshop on Uniting risk analyses and structured decision making at this year's conference.

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Workshop presenter: Associate Professor Fiona Fidler

Fiona is a psychologist with a phD in philosophy of Science, whose time is split between the School of Biosciences and the School of Historial and Philosophical Studies, at the University of Melbourne. Fiona is interested in how experts make decisions, including how scientists themselves collect, interpret and draw conclusions from their own data. She is an advocate of ethical statistical practice, and has worked to establish an evidence base for statistical reform in the biological and behavioural sciences. She is also interested in expert judgement and how to improve the performance of decision-making groups.
Fiona will be running a workshop on Transparency, reproducibility and open science at this year's conference.

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