‘What is risk know-how?’, produced in collaboration with the American Statistical Association and Sense about Science, is a call for statisticians and risk experts to get involved in making sense of risk from a practical approach at the community level.

The article presents the risk know-how framework and showcases a range of risk navigation experiences drawn from conversations with communities from all over the world. It also includes comments from leading statisticians and experts in risk literacy and risk communication.

A session on risk know-how is being organised by Sense about Science and the Institute for Public Understanding of Risk at the National University of Singapore at the Understanding Risk Asia conference on 3rd December 2021. The interactive session will engage the audience in identifying the elements of understanding risk which have the strongest practical application in day-to-day life.

Find out more about the panel and the conference. Click here

Evidence Week has been held annually in Westminster since 2018, and brings together researchers, community groups and parliamentarians to share ideas about research and policy.

In the 2021 edition, held early November, Risk Know-How had an in-person stand at the event to brief MPs and Parliamentarians on how the framework can help to respond to constituents’ queries on risks in their community such as flooding, COVID-19 tests in schools, or how AI facial recognition might be deployed in future.

Find out more about Evidence Week here