Winton Centre Cambridge

20 Apr

Harding Prizes for useful and trustworthy communication in 2022 awarded!

After casting the net wide across the world, the judges awarded the 2022 Harding Prize for Trustworthy Communication to an interactive calculator from the Institute of Fiscal Studies and a report from the Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology.

25 Nov

The search for the best evidence communication of 2022 begins!

The Harding Prizes for communication in 2022 are now open for nominations at https://hardingprize.online

28 Jul

The Winton Centre's new Decision Support Tools for the NHS launched!

Front page of the new decision aid for Atrial Fibrillation

The Winton Centre was commissioned by NHS England to produce a set of decision support tools, designed to help patients make decisions about their treatment alongside their health professionals.

Working with design company Luna9, the Winton Centre team went through an iterative process, talking to patients, patient support groups, members of the public and clinicians on each topic, refining the …

14 Mar

Winners of the 2021 Harding Prize for Useful and Trustworthy Communication announced!

The inaugural Harding Prize for Useful and Trustworthy Communication has been jointly won by the ONS Covid Infection Survey and the Cochrane Review of Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19.

2 Feb

New free e-learning course on communicating risks in public health

We've just launched a new free e-learning course on our platform https://moodle.wintoncentre.uk. Designed for trainees or professionals at any career stage who are interested in communicating risks in a public health context, the course should take less than 2 hours to complete and ends with a certificate of completion.

It covers how to extract numbers from academic publications, how …

14 Dec

A new episode of RiskyTalk : How misinformation spreads

From anti-vaxx propaganda to partisan political news, social media is awash with dodgy, even dangerous (mis)information. Who is behind this, why do they do it & how can we stop it? Join David in learning more about the social media ecosystem of misinformation!

2 Dec

How risky is it? A new interactive tool to help people see the different routes of Covid-19 transmission in different situations

A new online tool, the result of a broad collaboration, brings together the best current evidence around Covid-19 transmission to help people decide what to do to protect themselves and others in different scenarios.

2 Dec

Announcing the Harding Prize for Trustworthy Communication!

Have you seen some brilliant communication of evidence in 2021? Or perhaps some terrible communication? Enter it now for the new Harding prize: https://hardingprize.online