Irish-UK Behavioural Science Network

One serious concern about Brexit is the potential for research connections between scholars and practitioners in the UK and the wider EU to be disrupted. UK institutions are a key part of many projects across the portfolio of H2020 schemes. With that in mind, well done to Leonhard Lades for co-ordinating the second in a series of meetings bringing together researchers from Irish and UK institutions to work on topics in the broad area of the behavioural sciences and policy. The first workshop in May examined ongoing research on covid and behavioural science. The programme for the second session, which took place yesterday, is below and discussed research linking environmental behaviour to measures of core economic preference parameters.



The main participating institutions are UCD, Stirling, and LSE, but the remit is quite fluid and sessions have already had participation from wider institutions. A proposal to develop the network further has been developed led by Dr. Lades with the participation of 15 co-investigators from these institutions. The sessions involve researchers from across career stages and are intended to provide a forum for discussion of research and development of collaborative proposals. Covid has obviously led to a major disruption in many of the usual ways we develop connections in research and it was great to participate in something positive to regain our interactions. For example, two of the speakers were early career researchers who had been scheduled to visit Dublin to present their work and it was at least hopefully some compensation to be able to present to this wider group and have useful discussion of their papers. I will post further details about it here as it develops.