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Strategic Thinking Using Game Theory
Learn how to understand interdependent decisions through the practical tools of game theory.
This program helps you explore how expectations, strategy and human behaviour shape outcomes in social and organisational settings.
Through hands-on activities and clear explanations, you will discover how game-theoretic concepts improve decision-making in situations involving cooperation, conflict or uncertainty.
2 Days
Overview
Strategic decisions rarely happen in isolation. This course introduces you to the core ideas of game theory, a framework that explains how your choices are shaped by assumptions about what others may do. You will learn how everyday social and workplace situations can be represented as strategic interactions, making complex decision dynamics easier to understand.
Across two days, you will explore the principles that underpin game-theoretic reasoning and practise applying them to real-life examples. You will examine how incentives, expectations and behaviours interact to influence outcomes, and how strategic thinking can improve clarity in both competitive and collaborative situations.
The course combines concepts with practical activities, including games and simulations that bring each idea to life. These exercises help you recognise patterns, test assumptions and understand how long-term relationships differ from one-off interactions, giving you a richer appreciation of how strategic choices shape outcomes over time.
Who Should Attend
This course is ideal for professional staff, team leaders and managers who want to understand how strategic decisions can be modelled and anticipated. It is valuable for anyone who works in environments where decisions are interdependent or influenced by expectations of others’ behaviour.
Game theory is widely used in psychology, economics, political science, computer science, law, biology and defence. However, its practical relevance extends far beyond these disciplines. Anyone involved in negotiation, collaboration, conflict resolution or everyday social interactions will find the learning engaging, accessible and highly applicable.
Course Content
During this training course, you will explore:
- Strategic situations involving interdependent decisions
- How to represent real-life interactions using game-theoretic models
- Tools for analysing strategic behaviour and predicting likely outcomes
- Scenarios drawn from psychology, political science, economics and organisational decision-making
- Decision-making under uncertainty in cooperative and competitive settings
How long-term and repeated interactions influence behaviour and expand possible outcomes.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this training course, you should be able to:
- Represent real-life social interactions as game-theoretic problems
- Use tools from game theory to predict the outcomes of interdependent decisions
- Identify scenarios across disciplines such as psychology, political science, corporate decision-making and economics where game-theoretic analysis is useful
- Formulate solutions to dilemmas involving uncertainty in situations of conflict or cooperation
- Understand how long-term relationships differ from occasional interactions and how repeated engagement expands the set of possible outcomes.
Facilitator Profile
Luciana Fiorini
Ph.D. Economics – Brown University, USA
Luciana Fiorini holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of Sao Paulo and a Ph.D. in economics from Brown University. Prior to joining UWA in 2011, Luciana worked at Tulane University in New Orleans and at the Brazilian Central Bank. In 2018/2019 Luciana vised the University of Oxford for one year. She has published her research in Game Theory in international economic journals and attended conferences in Europe and the USA.
Luciana has been teaching Game Theory at UWA since 2016. In the classroom, she uses experiments and interactions among students to illustrate the main concepts of Game Theory. Luciana believes that Game Theory is a field that guides people to make decisions in the professional environment. It also equips people to make conscious choices regarding personal matters.
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