Andy Fugard


Hello!

I'm a researcher at the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Evidence Based Practice Unit (CAMHS EBPU), between the Anna Freud Centre and University College London, and the CAMHS Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC). My research concerns routine mental health outcome monitoring, e.g., modeling trajectories of change from the perspectives of young people, their carers, and practitioners, and communicating uncertain information about outcomes to different groups. I'm also a member of the Children and Young's People IAPT Outcomes and Evaluation Group.

Before coming to London, I worked for three years at the University of Salzburg in Austria, first at the Logic of Causal and Probabilistic Reasoning end of the European Science Foundation LogICCC programme, on how people reason about uncertainty, then on the EU-funded Aniketos project, where I contributed to work on cognitive and social models of trust. I did my PhD (graduated 2009) at the University of Edinburgh Neuroinformatics Doctoral Training Centre on how individual differences in reasoning relate to autistic-like traits in non-clinical populations, supervised by Keith Stenning and Bob Logie, also working with Mary Stewart.

Other infobooks I enjoyed (suggestions for others to read would be very welcome; I'm also playing with goodreads); music I'm listening to; a poem ;-) inspired by the later stages of the PhD (some advice on which may be found over here); some more; a blog; some lyrics; links to software I use; a smile machine :-)

Statistics fun

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A quotation

“It took me some time to learn this, but I think that I truly became a philosopher when I understood that there is no dialogue in philosophy.  Plato’s dialogues, for example, are clearly fake dialogues in which one guy is talking most of the time and the other guy is mostly saying ‘yes, I see, yes my God it is like you said — Socrates, my God that’s how it is’.  I fully sympathise with Deleuze who said somewhere that the moment a true philosopher hears a phrase like ‘let’s discuss this point’, his response is ‘let’s leave as soon as possible; let’s run away!’  Show me one dialogue which really worked.  There are none!”
Slavoj Žižek in Conversations with Žižek

Other quotations

Non-English Word of the Day

Lagom.

A great cover of an Aphex Twin tune

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