Thank you to all presenters and participants of the IAREP-funded workshop on Public Acceptability of Environmental Policies, which we hosted at the University of Stirling on Wednesday, September 24, 2025! It was a fantastic event, full of stimulating insights, lively discussions during presentations and coffee breaks, and many new connections that we hope will spark
Author: Leonhard Lades
I was asked to share some resources on sludge and am doing this here. This is a somewhat random list. I use this as well to summarize our own work on sludge, mainly in the context of environmental policy making funded by the Irish Environmental Protection Agency, so please excuse the bias to our work
Leo Lades and Liam Delaney gave a seminar on “Ethics as the Foundation of Applied Behavioural Science.” The recording is available on the website of the International Behavioural Public Policy Association: https://www.ibppa.org/event-details/behavioural-public-policy-seminar-1-by-liam-delaney-lse-and-leo-lades-stirling The seminar discussed the role of broad political philosophical positions (e.g., Libertarian Paternalism) as opposed to multidimensional, context-specific ethics frameworks which summarise multiple
I (Leo) had the pleasure to give a presentation at the international researcher seminar of the Ferdinant Porsche Fern FH organised by Prof Eva Hofmann. I know Eva from the Managing Committee of IAREP and was delighted that she invited my to present. They uploaded the presentation which you can watch below and also wrote
The first Scottish Behavioural Science Conference took place on Thursday, May 02, 2024 at the University of Stirling. The purpose of the conference was to develop links between behavioural scientists (e.g., from behavioural economics, social and cognitive psychology, philosophy, and related areas) throughout Scotland. For this conference, we understood behavioural science as the study of