Welcome to the Center for Decision Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London

Our aim is to support and advance interdisciplinary research into decision mechanisms with a particular focus on important social challenges.

Mission Statement

Our strategic vision for the Center is to forge synergies with other subdisciplines of psychological sciences as well as other cognate disciplines within the University. The Center will act as a catalyst for providing the unique mechanistic insights that cognition and neuroscience can offer into the understanding of behavior and decision-making in a variety of contexts.

Discussion

Create the intellectual space to enable open discussion and debate regarding how our research can become more relevant for understanding the role and mechanisms of decision-making in the context of timely societal issues.

Training

Organize interdisciplinary training for colleagues and early career researchers in the neuropsychological and computational sciences.

Collaboration

Capitalize on the expertise and breadth of our neuroimaging researchers to attract colleagues from our department and a variety of others to foster cross-disciplinary collaborations.

Events

Create various events focused on teaching the new generation of scientists (Graduate Summer School), and crossing disciplinary boundaries in knowledge exchange (Conferences).

Awareness

Highlight the social impact of our research by raising awareness more broadly and engage non-academic partners in this endeavor.

Impact

Host initiatives and collaborate with institutions to reach a wider audience for impactful decision science research.

“Decisions are at the core of every human activity, and understanding the ways in which people make decisions is becoming ever more important in the light of current global challenges encompassing climate, education and learning, health, finance and politics.”