This course provides an introduction to how people perceive and understand risks in their everyday lives and how to communicate risk information to help people make better decisions.
This course provides an introduction to how people perceive and understand risks in their everyday lives and how to communicate risk information to help people make better decisions.
Taught by an experienced team from the LRF Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk at the National University of Singapore, supplemented by interviews with leading international experts in the field, the course is designed to be accessible to professionals, practitioners, researchers and tertiary students involved or interested in risk communication.
The Understanding and Communicating Risk course makes extensive use of case studies to bring the issues to life and shows how fundamental concepts and research findings can be employed to practical challenges of risk communication. Learners on the course are given opportunities to apply their learning through engaging exercises based on real-world cases.
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