Dear Behavioural Science cluster,
Good news! We passed the next IAS studentship competition hurdle and are among the ten clusters the University will advertise.
See below for (currently sparse) details.
Best,
Till
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From: Institute for Advanced Studies <ias(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:ias@stir.ac.uk>>
Subject: IAS Studentships 2024 Cluster Selection Outcome
Date: 26. January 2024 at 15:11:12 GMT
To: Till Stowasser <till.stowasser(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:till.stowasser@stir.ac.uk>>
Cc: Iain Docherty <iain.docherty(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:iain.docherty@stir.ac.uk>>, Karen Sutherland <karen.sutherland1(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:karen.sutherland1@stir.ac.uk>>
Dear Till
The IAS Executive met last week to review the 23 PGR Cluster proposals that were submitted to select those that will be advertised for this year’s studentship competition. The panel assessed how each proposal met the specified criteria in coming to its decisions. The standard of proposals was extremely high, and there was consensus that ten of the proposed clusters were ahead of the others in meeting the criteria, which marked them out as the very best of an extremely strong field. I am delighted to tell you that your cluster, Tackling challenges of environmental and human health – A behavioural science approach, is one of these and will go forward to be advertised.
We are currently working with CMR on setting up the competition and have a provisional launch date of 12th February. To support this process, we require a plain language summary of the purpose and aims of the cluster which will be added to the Studentship webpages. This should be approx. 500 words and include the contact details of cluster leads and the two sample projects. Please send this to IAS(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:IAS@stir.ac.uk> by Tuesday 30th January.
For information, the Clusters that have been successful are noted below.
(Physical Activity for) Positive and Healthy Ageing
Just AI Lab
Evaluating the socioenvironmental benefits of Nature-based Solutions (NbS)
Clacks Living Lab: Community wealth building and sustainable, net zero communities
Inclusive Ageing in a Digital World
People on the Move
Accessible Environments
Heritage at the Extremes: Temporalities, Politics and Practices of Care
Environmental Justice and Low Carbon Transitions
Tackling challenges of environmental and human health – A behavioural science approach
With very best wishes
Professor Iain Docherty FAcSS FRSE FRGS FRSA FHEA FICE CMILT
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Hi folks,
Let’s have the PhD lab online today. Seems like trains won’t be operative until later today.
See you later,
Till
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Hi all,
I am delighted that we will be welcoming back to present her Keep Scotland Beautiful award-winning dissertation Elanor Teel MSc.
Elanor will present on "From Acknowledgement to Action: Updating Framing Messages to Elicit Public Will for a
Freshwater Petition in British Columbia".
The talk will take place in rm 4b96 next Wed Jan 24, 1-2pm.
Looking forward to seeing you there,
Dave
Prof. David Comerford
Economics Division<https://www.stir.ac.uk/about/faculties/stirling-management-school/our-resea…>, Stirling Management School, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA.
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Director, Behavioural Science Centre<https://behsci.stir.ac.uk/>
Program Director, MSc Behavioural Science<https://www.stir.ac.uk/courses/pg-taught/behavioural-science/>
Recent publications:
Bridger, E. K., Tufte-Hewett, A., & Comerford, D. A. (2023). Perceived health inequalities: are the UK and US public aware of occupation-related health inequality, and do they wish to see it reduced?. BMC Public Health, 23(1), 2326.
Comerford, D. A., Tufte-Hewett, A., & Bridger, E. K. (2023). Public preferences to trade-off gains in total health for health equality: Discrepancies between an abstract scenario versus the real-world scenario presented by COVID-19. Rationality and Society, 10434631231193599.
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Vicky
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Thanks to Leo Lades for flagging this closing deadline (Monday) for the Behavioural Public Policy conference
The International Behavioural Public Policy Conference is in Cambridge this year and takes place from Sunday 23rd to Tuesday 25th June 2024. I would encourage everybody interested in this to go. I went there in 2022 and it was fantastic. The 2024 keynotes are impressive.
The deadline for abstract & session submissions is next Monday (15 January 2024).
https://ibppc.org/
Prof. David Comerford
Economics Division<https://www.stir.ac.uk/about/faculties/stirling-management-school/our-resea…>, Stirling Management School, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA.
(+44 / 0) 75-42-188-166
Director, Behavioural Science Centre<https://behsci.stir.ac.uk/>
Program Director, MSc Behavioural Science<https://www.stir.ac.uk/courses/pg-taught/behavioural-science/>
Recent publications:
Bridger, E. K., Tufte-Hewett, A., & Comerford, D. A. (2023). Perceived health inequalities: are the UK and US public aware of occupation-related health inequality, and do they wish to see it reduced?. BMC Public Health, 23(1), 2326.
Comerford, D. A., Tufte-Hewett, A., & Bridger, E. K. (2023). Public preferences to trade-off gains in total health for health equality: Discrepancies between an abstract scenario versus the real-world scenario presented by COVID-19. Rationality and Society, 10434631231193599.
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Dear Behavioural Science cluster,
Half an hour ago, we submitted our revised proposal for the 2024 IAS studentship competition.
I am sorry that I wasn’t able to share the final draft before submitting. It went down the wire in the end, and I am glad I was able to submit *something* in time! I hope the document is to everyone’s satisfaction (and that there aren’t any blatant errors…things really did get hectic in the last ten minutes)
In any case, I am attaching the submitted document for your perusal.
Wish us luck!
Best,
Till
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Dear Behavioural Science Cluster,
I hope I am catching most of you before heading out the door for a well-deserved break!
As you probably know, IAS has announced a new competition round for PhD scholarships for the coming year.
Gözde and I (as PIs of this year’s bid) have had a post-mortem meeting with Iain to receive feedback on why our cluster was unsuccessful. One of the key points that held us back was that our cluster theme was perceived as too broad. We always knew that a catch-all strategy (cluster theme = Behavioural Science), which set us apart from the other, much narrower, cluster themes, could go either way. Now we know, which way it went: the wrong one.
Anyway, what was very clear to us after meeting with Iain is that (if we want to have another go in 2024), we need to significantly narrow the cluster theme. We asked Iain if this was possible under the IAS rules that only previously pre-approved clusters were able to compete next year and he said that it would be.
So, after some pondering, Gözde and I have decided that we’d be willing to throw our hats in the ring once more - provided we have the support from the cluster.
Together with Iain, we had a look at the competing cluster themes (many of which are behavioural science in nature already) and the clearest opening (as in: least crowded field of competing bids) was in Environmental Behaviour. Given the abundance of expertise in our cluster in Behavioural Health, we are also considering a cluster theme that combines, Behaviour, Health, and Environment. This would also be a great match for the University’s new R&I strategy (Spaces, Places & Lives), as we will have to reframe our initial proposal to this R&I strategy anyway (see details here<https://stir.sharepoint.com/sites/InstituteforAdvancedStudies/Shared%20Docu…>).
So here are our questions to you:
(1) Are there any objections to entering the 2024 competition with a theme narrowed to Environmental Behaviour (and possibly added Behavioural Health)?
* Importantly: The narrowing of our cluster theme would only affect our PhD studentship bid. The theme of our Behavioural Science cluster as a research group would remain a broad tent!
* Also: If you have an alternative idea for rebranding our IAS bid (and/or would be interested in Co-PIing it), we’d be very keen to hear it
(2) Who would want to join such a revised IAS bid?
* Just as last time, we are looking for a healthy mix of senior colleagues and ECRs
(3) Optional (but highly welcome): If you raised your hand under (2), could you give us a concrete example of a potential research topic or two?
* The less general our proposal, the better our chances
We would be very happy to hear from you regarding these three points.
The deadline to submit our revised bid is Tuesday, 9th of January (thanks IAS... ;-) ). If we feel that the support from the cluster is there, Gözde and I would be willing to give it another go.
Best wishes, and happy holidays, once they come!
Gözde and Till
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