Sarah and Alan recently received an innovation award from the ELSA Living Lab for the Future for their decision science mobile app, DecisionWise. The award was received at a ceremony attended by various researchers, students, as well as the Rector of the university. During the event, Sarah presented her ideas to bring decision science closer to society. In the coming year, the award will be used to establish a multidisciplinary team of decision scientists, computer scientists and students from Radboud University who will work under their guidance towards enhancing the features of the app, specifically focused on translating decision science knowledge to tackle the mental health challenges of the youth.
Sarah recently received a grant from the Netherlands Academy for Empirical Legal Studies for experimental research that can impact law and policy. Under the supervision of Alan and Prof. Pietro Ortolani (Faculty of Law), Sarah will be conducting a series of behavioural and neuroimaging studies focused on better understanding social media users, with the goal of generating evidence-based recommendations for EU law-makers who focus on creating safer online environments. As part of the grant award, she recently visited the Law School of Erasmus University Rotterdam to connect with EU lawyers interested in empirical research.
At the recent Multidisciplinary Decision-Making Meeting, Sarah gave a presentation on computational modeling to an audience of multidisciplinary decision-making researchers from Donders. She provided an overview on social utility models and highlighted recent research from our lab in which we use this approach to study questions related to wealth inequality.
