Dr Tim Rakow is an expert in judgment and decision making and has published his research in numerous peer-reviewed journals. He is Editor-in-Chief of Decision, the research journal for judgment and decision making of the American Psychological Association. Tim joined King’s in 2015 as part of the team that set up and developed the BSc Psychology programme, following 15 years at the University of Essex as a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader. He a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Research interests

• Decision making under risk and uncertainty
• Risk communication
• Decisions from experience
• Decision making by medical, health, and social care professionals
• Patient information for healthcare decisions
• Meta-science research for psychological science

Teaching

With more that 25 years’ experience of university teaching, research supervision, and innovation and leadership in education, Tim Rakow has taught on 24 separate modules and has been the module leader or co-leader for 18 of these modules. He is currently a module coordinator for two Level 4 BSc Psychology modules (Research Methods 1 and Addressing Problems) and a Level 6 option module (The Use and Abuse of Evidence in Psychology) and supervises student research projects.

Expertise and public engagement

Tim Rakow has co-developed and tested tools for presenting risk information to patients and their families. He is currently collaborating on developing tools to support complex decision making by social workers.