June 2023 - BehSci - University of Stirling Mailing Lists

Behavioural Science Centre meeting: 2 - 3.30 next Wednesday in Room 3b129

by David Comerford

Hi all, Next Wednesday June 28th we will have a meeting of the Behavioural Science Centre 2 - 3.30 in Room 3b129. There will be brownies! The agenda will be tightened up but here are some items: 1. Events: Sept 14 Behavioural Science Centre Reunion event - Stirling Court Room and Stirling Court Hotel September 14th. Invites are being sent as we speak. Interested to hear suggestion on format given the we-don't-know-each-other-yet-but-we-all-have-something-in-common nature of the participants. It feels like this is one where a more participatory approach would work well. Ideas very welcome! Oct 20 Behavioural Insights for Regulation: Keynote speaker is academic and policy advisor Amelia Fletcher (UEA). 1. Staffing - the economics division has openings at Prof / Assoc Prof level and at SL / Lecturer level. The prof level job is listed as being in the environmental / sustainability space. We are keen to strengthen the behavioural base of our faculty so suggestions welcome. Teaching buy-in: Related to the above, teachers on our MSc Behavioural Science program have been flat out for the past few years. If anyone knows of PhD students who are looking for teaching experience and are conversant in quants and / or experimental social / cognitive psychology then we are keen to hear about them. 1. Funding opportunities. 1. Outreach and dissemination opportunities. Prof. David Comerford Economics Division Centre Director, Behavioural Science Program Director, MSc Behavioural Science Our centre website: https://behsci.stir.ac.uk/ Recent publications: Bridger, E. K., Tufte‐Hewett, A., & Comerford, D. A. (2023). Dispositional and situational attributions for why the rich live longer than the poor. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. Comerford, D. A. (2023). Response Bias in Survey Measures of Expectations: Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Expectations’ Inflation Module. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. ________________________________ Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159

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FW: Lifespan Lab - Tobii Eye-Tracker Training

by Purva Abhyankar

Hi The following opportunity for training in eye-tracking equipment may be of interest to some of you! Purva Dr Purva Abhyankar<https://rms.stir.ac.uk/converis-stirling/person/11878>, CPsychol Lecturer in Health Psychology SGSSS Health, Families, Relationships and Demographic Change Pathway Convenor Faculty of Natural Sciences Cottrell 3B99 University of Stirling [cid:image001.jpg@01D9A442.96055930] Email: purva.abhyankar(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:purva.abhyankar@stir.ac.uk> From: Sharon Kessler <sharon.kessler(a)stir.ac.uk> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2023 1:01 PM To: Psychology PhD Students <Psychology-PhD-Students(a)stir.ac.uk>; Psychology Staff <PsychologyStaff(a)stir.ac.uk> Subject: Lifespan Lab - Tobii Eye-Tracker Training Hi everyone, We are planning to have Tobii conduct the second part of the training on how to use the new Lifespan Lab eye-tracker towards the end of August when everyone is back from leave, but before teaching begins. The first part of the training was a brief intro during the opening of the lab, but there's no need to have attended the first part to be able to attend the second part! If you would be interested in attending, please fill out this survey to indicate what times you could do. Please also feel free to forward this message on to anyone you know who might be interested but isn't on the list (including people in other departments). https://www.when2meet.com/?20409116-jGPOZ Please fill out the survey by 5 pm on Friday (June 23) so that I can coordinate a time with Tobii. Many thanks! Very best wishes, Sharon -------------------------- Sharon Kessler (she/her), PhD Lecturer in Psychology Cottrell Building Room 3B92, Faculty of Natural Sciences University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, SCOTLAND Tel: +44(0)1786 467 651 Email: sharon.kessler(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:sharon.kessler@stir.ac.uk> Website: https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1104622#research; https://www.sharonekessler.com/ Book review editor: International Journal of Primatology Academic editor: PLOS ONE ________________________________ Scotland's University for Sporting Excellence The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159

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Fwd: IAS Studentships Update

by Till Stowasser

Dear Behavioural Science cluster, IAS asked us to circulate the e-mail below. Happy to comply. It also reveals the successful clusters, even though Iain (I guess inadvertently) only revealed 3 out of 4. So the fourth cluster is still a bit of a mystery… Best, Till Begin forwarded message: From: Institute for Advanced Studies <ias(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:ias@stir.ac.uk>> Subject: IAS Studentships Update Date: 8. June 2023 at 15:59:27 GMT+1 Cluster leads, please can you cascade to members of your clusters Colleagues I would like to update you all on the outcome of the inaugural IAS Studentships competition. We have been communicating with cluster leads and students over the last week as we thought it appropriate to inform them of the outcomes of the process first. We know there is widespread appetite for more information about how the process unfolded and the choices we made as part of a more general update for everyone who has participated, and we appreciate your patience in waiting for this. The competition has been an outstanding success. We received over 600 valid Expressions of Interest for the 39 potential clusters that colleagues put forward for the competition. The quality of the student applications we generated was genuinely outstanding. It is clear that there is huge demand to come to Stirling for study at doctoral level amongst the very best students. This is testament to the quality of the cluster propositions that colleagues generated, and I would once again like to offer my thanks to everyone that was involved in creating a proposal. The IAS Executive met at the end of May to review all of the valid EoIs and determine our preferred studentship award winners. Our panel considered all aspects of the cluster proposal, student quality and alignment between cluster/student proposal aims and objectives in coming to its decisions. The standard of shortlisted students in terms of existing qualifications and experience was extremely high indeed, and completely outstripped our expectations such that we could have awarded the 16 studentships available several times over. In coming to our final decisions, we reached consensus that four of the proposed clusters had a particularly outstanding combination of research potential and student quality that marked them out as the very best of an extremely strong field. These were Accessible Environments; Animal Welfare in a Changing World; Nature Emergency: Interdisciplinary Responses by Active Citizens; Democracy, Human Rights and Communication/Advocacy in the Digital Age. Special congratulations to colleagues who put forward these cluster proposals; we look forward to working with you to make them a success for the students and the University. IAS will be conducting a review of how this year's process worked over the summer with a view to putting forward options for how subsequent rounds of the studentship competition will be run. We will contact all clusters about this in due course, but cluster leads are of course able to contact me in the interim if you’d like to discuss any aspect of the process. Once again, can I thank you all for the energy and enthusiasm that has been generated by the first round of studentships and that we hope to build upon in future. Very best wishes Iain. ________________________________ Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159

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