Senior Data And Insight Scientist / Lloyd's Register Foundation
Aaron is a research scientist with over 15 years of experience working with big data to derive insight and deliver impact across various sectors. Since joining Lloyd’s Register Foundation in 2021 Aaron has led the analysis of the World Risk Poll, a unique global survey on public perceptions and experience of risk and safety. Aaron is a proponent of making data openly available and to all, regardless of their level of technical expertise, as a means of increasing transparency and building trust when reporting on complex subjects.
Prior to the Foundation, Aaron split his career between academia and industry. In the former he was a medical researcher with a major focus on therapy development for people with cystic fibrosis, co-authoring nearly 100 papers, with over 20 as first author following completion of his PhD. In the latter, Aaron has mainly worked in the education start-up and scale-up space, using data analytics to inform decision making and foster growth.
With the release of our first World Risk Poll 2024 report, 'Resilience in a changing world', the World Risk Poll data explorer has been significantly improved with new ways to interrogate the latest World Risk Poll data.
Aaron Gardner announces the release of our new World Risk Poll Data Explorer, an easy and intuitive tool for navigating data on people’s experiences and perceptions of risk featured in our four major 2021 Poll reports.
This short report is the third of our ‘Focus On’ series, and explores how and why the perceived threat of climate change varies widely between and within countries. Based on the 2021 World Risk Poll dataset, it reveals that a lack of concern can often be tightly linked to countries which have a high dependence on fossil fuel production.
