Our events since 2022 are gratefully sponsored by the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Saltire Networking Award.
2024 Events
| Date | Speaker | Theme | Time and Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday, 31 May, 2024 | Keynotes by Laura Smart and Timothy Cason | Designing Markets for a Sustainable Future: From Experiments to Behaviour | 9am – 5pm, Court Room |
| Thursday, 02 May, 2024 | Various | Scottish Behavioural Science Conference | 9am – 5pm, Stirling Court Hotel |
| Thursday, 28 March, 2024 | Alix Aitken-Arbuckle (Napier); Gabriella Marerro (Stirling); Ailin Chen (Stirling) | Results from a Feasibility study and RCT on using planning cards to promote breastfeeding maintenance | 2pm-4pm West Calder Med centre |
| Thursday, 27 March, 2024 | Sam Enright (U Edinburgh) | Low-Hanging Fruit in Global Health: Lessons from Lead Poisoning. To be followed by folk night at the Settle Inn. | 6-7pm, LTA3 Cottrell bldg. |
| Wednesday, 13 March, 2024 | Isaac Tabner (Acc and fin., Stirling) | Switching from Private Cars to Active Travel for Routine Journeys: A Method to Evaluate Changes in Financial Wellbeing | 1-2pm, tbc |
| Tuesday, 27 February, 2024 | Alycia Chin (US Securities and Exchange Commission) | Framing effects when forecasting the stock market | 1.30 – 2.30, Online: Link |
| Friday, 23 February, 2024 | Mini-workshop on Risk Communication: Martina Barjakova (University of Milano Bicocca) & Philip Ebert (Philosophy, Stirling) | Perceptions of Health Risks – How do people update for synergistic risk factors? and Avalanche forecast interpretation by laypeople and experts | 2X4, 11.30-1pm |
| Wednesday, 24 January, 2024 | Elanor Teel (Stirling) | Keep Scotland Beautiful award: Environmental messaging | 4b96, 1-2pm |
Previous Events
| Date | Speaker | Theme | Venue |
| Tuesday, 5 December, 2023 | Sam Shand (Cowry consulting) | Behavioural Consulting, Lessons and opportunities | W1, 4-6pm |
| Wednesday, 29 November, 2023 | Arman Eshragi (Cardiff) | Behavioral finance | |
| Wednesday, 15 November, 2023 | Margaret Samahita (UCD) | Anchoring and Subjective Belief Distributions | 1-2pm, 3Y11 |
| Tuesday, 31 October, 2023 | Carl Singleton (soon-to-be Stirling) | Gambling on Momentum in Contests | 2-3pm, 4b96 |
| Friday, 20 October, 2023 | Fiona Scott Morton (Yale); Philip Newall (Bristol); Stuart Mills (Leeds); Laura Smart (CMA, formerly FCA); Elisabeth Costa (BIT); Pete Lunn (ESRI); Amelia Fletcher (UEA & CMA) | One-day conference: Behavioural Science and digital markets regulation | Court Room |
| Friday, 6 October, 2023 | Simone Cerroni (Trento) | Choice experiments and preference revelation | 2-3.30, 3b88b |
| Thursday, 14 September, 2023 | Liam Delaney (LSE), Michael Daly (Maynooth), Fionnuala O’Reilly (NESTA), Bernardo Nunes (Workera), Shona Matthews (CBI), Sam Shand (Cowry consulting), Carina Mueller (Wageningen) | behavioural science centre reunion | Court Room |
| Tuesday, 9 May, 2023 | Mona Maier (Aberdeen) | The effect of appointment order on General Practitioners’ prescribing decisions: investigating decision fatigue in healthcare | Cottrell 1A71 |
| Thursday, 4-5 May, 2023 | LA Paul (Yale) and various others | Transformative experience and Risk | Campus Central, room 3.04 |
| Wednesday, 19 April, 2023 | Eoin Campbell (Cowrie Consulting, MSc Behavioural Science 2018) | Careers in consultancy | 2pm 3b129 |
| Wednesday, 12 April, 2023 | Paul-Oliver Klein | Conflicted Trust in Banking: Broad-Scope and Narrow-Scope Trust | 2pm 3b129 |
| Monday, 17 April, 2023 | Samantha De Martino (World Bank) | Interventions by the World Bank | 2pm Rm 2b84 |
| Sun April 2, 2023 | George Wright (Strathclyde), Melanie Luhrmann (RHUL), Xiaoxiao Niu (UCL), Anna Adamecz-Volgyi, UCL, Nicola Genaiolli (Bocconi) | Elicitation and Formation of Expectations | 11am – 5pm Court Room |
| Wednesday, March 1, 2023 | Anatolii Hladchenko (Stirling) | Sustainable macroeconomic equilibrium in the context of globalization | 2pm 3b129 |
| Wednesday, February 22, 2023 | Guy Ishai (Hebrew U) | Public expectations of Covid-19 caseloads and infection risk | 2.30pm 3b129 |
| Monday, February 20, 2023 | Mauro Papi (Aberdeen) & Steven Tucker (Waikato) | Papi: Dollar-Bet versus Probability-Bet: Do Heuristics Matter? & Tucker: Emotions & punishment in public goods games | 2pm Rm 2b84 |
| Monday, February 13, 2023 | Cass Sunstein (Harvard) | Not wanting to Know | 3pm Rm 2b84 |
| Wednesday, February 8, 2023 | Shona Matthews (Stirling) | Nudging home energy efficiency investments | 2pm Campus Central 3.04 |