A few things below that might be of interest to some readers. My day job since 2020 has been as head of the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, which I am scheduled to continue until end of 2025. It is a rewarding job in many ways as you basically get to see pretty much every side of academia but it is also intensive and sometimes intrusive, particularly as I joined at the height of covid and have also worked through a period of mass industrial action here in the UK. I will be teaching on executive courses on the development of behavioural science and policy and ethical appraisal on executive courses, a foundations of behavioural science course at graduate level, and advanced applications at undergraduate level, including continuing to work on our next-generation behavioural science policy simulation. I find it important to work on things like the below to keep energy levels up.
The schedule for the wider world session is available here. It is still evolving but already has a nice shape with speakers from across different public and private agencies. Many people have offered excellent suggestions for which I am very grateful.
The Irish behavioural science and policy network has been revamped. Details here. I will post about this at a later stage. There is a really interesting and interconnected group of people working across behavioural and experimental economics, health psychology, social psychology, and broad-level behavioural science in Ireland. I am still involved as a visiting professor at UCD and continue to work with groups such as the Irish Central Bank and the Department of Health on various issues.
I hope to have a set of lunch events for people interested in developing particular areas of behavioural science in LSE. Some topics include regional networks in particular Global South, connections to AI, ethical technology development.
I have started the process of organising a workshop on the experience of a day to be held the week after Bloomsday in Dublin next year. We have talked about doing something like this for a long time motivated by the work many of us have conducted on day reconstruction methods and obviously by Joyce's great book. Truthfully, I know a lot more people working on things like experience sampling and day reconstruction than I do working on Joyce but we do hope to have a cross-over between social science and humanities, and perhaps natural sciences. Brainwaves by email welcome!
I am working with some alumni and students on the development of a new agency exploring ideas around ethical influence in the 21st century. We were recently awarded an LSE Innovation award to develop this and I look forward to talking more to people about it over the year.
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