Dr. Alec Christie

Biography

Alec Christie's research focuses on key questions regarding evidence-based decision-making outcomes, return-on-investment of evidence use, and the challenges posed by 'evidence-washing' practices. He aims to accelerate the scaling of evidence synthesis by using artificial intelligence to provide robust tailored information for practitioners and decision-makers. His work is primarily in the field of biodiversity conservation and involves collaboration with the Conservation Evidence project, where he builds decision support tools for practitioners. He has extensively researched literature biases in evidence affecting conservation actions, quantifying biases through experimental and quasi-experimental designs. Alec completed his PhD in Zoology, where he focused on biases in evidence-based conservation. He holds a BSc in Marine Biology from the University of St Andrews and has also studied at James Cook University. Besides his research fellow position at Imperial College, he is a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge and an associate lecturer at the Open University.

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