Dr Ian Belton

Lecturer

Management Science

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Personal statement

My research focuses on the psychology of human decision-making. In particular, I examine decisions made under conditions of risk and uncertainty in organisational/institutional contexts including the legal, defence and security sectors. I also have an interest in applying and improving techniques for strategic foresight such as the Delphi method and scenario planning, as well as the interface between such soft OR methods and quantitative risk modelling.

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Professional Activities

Bayesian Networks – From Problem Structuring to Probabilistic Decision Support
Speaker
18/5/2025
What do I Not Know? AI, Risk and Probation
Participant
12/3/2025
"Human Digital Twin for Enhancing Occupational Health and Safety"
Organiser
24/6/2024
StrathWide 2024: The University of Strathclyde Researcher conference
Chair
23/4/2024
StrathWide 2023: The University of Strathclyde Researcher conference
Chair
28/4/2023

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Projects

Bayesian ARgumentation via Delphi
Belton, Ian (Co-investigator) Bolger, Fergus (Principal Investigator) Crawford, Megan Michelle (Co-investigator) Hamlin, Iain (Co-investigator) MacDonald, Alice (Co-investigator) Rowe, Gene (Principal Investigator) Sissons, Aileen (Co-investigator) Taylor Browne Lūka, Courtney (Co-investigator) Vasilichi, Alexandrina (Co-investigator) Wright, George (Principal Investigator)
BARD was a 23-month project funded by the US Government Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) and formed part of the larger Crowdsourcing Evidence, Argumentation, Thinking and Evaluation – “CREATE” – program. In BARD, we designed and produced Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) to assist in the construction of Causal Bayesian Networks (CBNs) as the underlying engines for the analysis of arguments and evidence. BARD thus allows analysts to build and test competing or complementary arguments, and to examine the impact of different pieces of evidence, in an intuitive environment. BARD makes use of the Delphi technique – an iterative survey method that minimizes negative effects of cognitive and social biases – to manage the interaction between users.

In addition to the Delphi Team based in Strathclyde, BARD also consisted of teams based in London (UCL and Birkbeck) – who are experts on the psychology of causal reasoning – and in Melbourne, Australia (Monash University) – who are expert in CBNs and software engineering.

IARPA - https://www.iarpa.gov/
CREATE - https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/create
01-Jan-2017 - 30-Jan-2018

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Dr Ian Belton
Lecturer
Management Science

Email: i.belton@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted