Dr Alice Liefgreen

Alice’s research interests are judgment and decision-making, and causal and evidential reasoning. She has investigated how people reason and make judgments under uncertainty by a) comparing their reasoning inferences against normative causal Bayesian models of evidential reasoning and b) enriching these computational frameworks by considering the factors that lead people to at times deviate from normative predictions, such as the use of heuristics and alternative strategies.

Alice has so far applied her work to legal-investigative domains, impact-based weather forecasting and intelligence analysis. Her research utilises both constrained laboratory tasks as well as naturalistic studies – with the aim of informing the development of solutions that help practitioners maximise reasoning and decision-making accuracy and efficiency in their practice.

Alice is a member of two working groups (“North Sea Group of Legal Evidence and Proof” and “XJur”) comprised of both academics (philosophers, psychologists, computer scientists) and professionals (lawyers, judges, legal theory experts) that maintain an active and open communication channel and collaborate to collectively tackle central issues in jurisprudence. In addition, Alice has collaborated with the UK MET Office during her post-doctoral position at UCL, and health-tech organisations during her post-doctoral position with the Governance of Emerging Technologies research group at the Oxford Institute of the Internet and the University of Reading.