Media

I am available for media interviews on topics where I have some knowledge including:

  • Making big life decisions
  • Making risky choices
  • Online consumer reviews
  • Carbon and food labels
  • Nudging sustainable decisions
  • Overconfidence
  • Buying gifts
  • Spending your money wisely

Below is a selection of media interactions I have had, including radio, podcast, and television appearances.

DateFormatTopicDetailsLinks
2011-11-05Radio interviewDecision-makingI featured on ABC radio News National’s The Science Show discussing how we make decisions and how these decisions might be improved.[Listen]
2013-09-05Pre-recorded interviewCenter for Research on Environmental DecisionsThis video introduces the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions: who the researchers are (including yours truly), and the fascinating issues that we study[Watch]
2014-02-26AnimationChoice architectureThe first half of this video summarizes the concept of choice architecture with accompanying visuals to help bring home the message. The second half of this video summarizes some work that I have been doing on translating attributes[Watch]
2015-06-02Live presentationChoice architectureI was a keynote speaker at the Australia Council for the Arts Marketing Summit.[Watch]
2015-06-21Pre-recorded interviewInformation designI discuss how marketers can make better use of information design to add value for consumers.[Watch]
2016-08-18Live presentationDecision-makingI presented at National Science Week about human irrationality.[Listen]
2016-08-24Radio interviewDecision-makingI spoke to Red Symons on 774 ABC Melbourne radio about human irrationality.[Listen]
2016-08-24Radio interviewOver-confidenceI was invited to 2ser, a community radio station in Sydney, to discuss the topic of overconfidence.[Listen]
2017-04-05Radio interviewOnline reviewsI spoke about the extent to which you can believe online reviews with Jon Faine on his 774 ABC Melbourne morning program.[Listen]
2017-04-05Radio interviewOnline reviewsI spoke about the extent to which you can believe online reviews with Ali Clarke on her 891 ABC Adelaide morning program.[Listen]
2017-05-30Radio interviewOnline reviewsI spoke about online reviews with Kelly Higgins-Devine on her 612 ABC Brisbane afternoon program[Listen][Read]
2018-02-02Radio interviewOnline reviewsI spoke about the fake online reviews (and restaurants!) with Melinda James on her ABC Illawarra breakfast program.[Listen]
2018-12-18Radio interviewCarbon labellingI spoke about the misperception of food’s carbon footprint with Hamish Macdonald on his ABC Radio National breakfast program.[Listen]
2018-12-18Radio interviewCarbon labellingI spoke about the misperception of food’s carbon footprint with Ali Moore on her 774 ABC morning program.
2018-12-20Radio interviewCarbon labellingI spoke about the misperception of food’s carbon footprintwith Jesse Mulligan on his RNZ afternoon program.[Listen]
2018-12-20Radio interviewCarbon labellingI spoke about the misperception of food’s carbon footprint with Julia Carr-Catzel on her 2ser The Daily show.[Listen]
2019-01-10Radio interviewCarbon labellingI spoke about the misperception of food’s carbon footprint with Victor Petrovic on his 2ser drive program.[Listen]
2019-01-10Podcast interviewCarbon labellingI spoke about the misperception of food’s carbon footprint with I spoke to Natalie Bucknell, Kay Wennagel, and Michael Staindl on their Beyond Zero Emissions podcast.[Listen]
2019-07-11Podcast interviewCollective aggregationI spoke with Nicole Sutton on her Think: Business Futures podcast on 2ser to discuss the collective aggregation effect.
2019-07-11Radio interviewOnline reviewsI spoke with Geraldine Doogue on her ABC Radio National Saturday Extra show together with Quentin Long, Co-Founder of Australian Traveller Media, about how consumers can try to best use online reviews to inform their decisions.[Listen]
2019-08-13Radio interviewOnline reviewsI spoke with Wendy Harmer and Robbie Buck on their ABC Radio Sydney Breakfast show, Adam Shirley on his ABC Radio Sydney Breakfast show, and Gillian O’Shaughnessy on her ABC Radio Perth Afternoons show about the prevelance of fake online reviews.
2019-08-17Radio interviewOnline reviewsI spoke with Christine Anu on her ABC Radio National Evenings show about how consumers use online reviews and how consumers can attempt to spot the fakes.
2019-08-19Radio interviewOnline reviewsI spoke with John Langer on 3CR Community Radio about who you can trust online.[Listen]
2019-12-09Television interviewOverconfidenceI spoke with 10 News about overconfidence by drivers on the road.
2020-12-06Television interviewGift-givingI spoke on 7’s Weekend Sunrise about how to choose a great gift.
2021-03-01Radio interviewBig Life DecisionsI spoke with Sarah Macdonald on her ABC Evenings show about life’s biggest decisions and regrets.
2021-03-02Radio interviewBig Life DecisionsI spoke with Tom Mann on his Radio Adelaide breakfast show about life’s biggest decisions and regrets.
2021-03-03Radio interviewBig Life DecisionsI spoke with Marlene Even on her 2SER Radio Daily show, and also Gabriel George on his 4ZZZ Radio Know Idea show about life’s biggest decisions and regrets.[Listen][Listen]
2021-03-04Radio interviewBig Life DecisionsI spoke with Georgia Stynes on her ABC Canberra Afternoons show about life’s biggest decisions and regrets.[Listen]
2021-03-14Podcast interviewBig Life DecisionsI spoke with Nathan Reynolds on his 88.3 Southern FM “Hear and There” podcast about life’s biggest decisions and regrets.
2021-04-13Podcast interviewBig Life DecisionsI spoke with Joe Casey on his “The Retirement Wisdom Podcast” about life’s biggest decisions and retirement decisions.
2021-09-15Podcast interviewBig Life DecisionsI spoke with Brett McKay on his “Art of Manliness” podcast about life’s biggest decisions.[Listen]
2021-11-21Podcast interviewBig Life DecisionsI spoke with James Bullen on the “All in the Mind” podcast about life’s biggest decisions.[Listen]
2022-04-28Live presentationBig Life DecisionsI spoke at the TEDxSydney Ideas Search event about life’s biggest decisions.[Listen]
2022-07-07Television interviewOnline reviewsI spoke with Emily Rice for a 9News story.[Watch]
2022-11-25Radio interviewSpending moneyI spoke with Melinda James on her ABC Illawarra Breakfast show and Paul Turton on his ABC NSW Drive show.
2022-11-25Video interviewSpending moneyI appeared in a segment for Ticker News.[Watch]
2022-11-26Television interviewSpending moneyI appeared on ABC Television’s Weekend Breakfast program hosted by Johanna Nicholson and Kathryn Robinson.[Watch]
2023-05-08Podcast interviewGamificationI spoke with Linda Nazareth on her “Work and the Future” podcast about gamifying employee reward programs.[Listen]