Hi all,

Just a quick note to say that I am very much looking forward to working with you all and am extremely excited about the upcoming years!

All the best and talk soon,
Leo





On Tue, 26 Sept 2023 at 14:26, David Comerford <david.comerford@stir.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi all,

I am delighted to announce that Leonhard Lades is officially joining Stirling economics division as Professor of Behavioural and Environmental Economics. Leo will join the faculty in the Spring semester.

Many of you will know Leo as a former colleague here at Stirling and as someone who has reliably and regularly contributed to behavioural science at Steven after he had left.

Below is a link to Leo's website, which details some of his excellent contributions, including a state-of-the-art framework for considering the ethics of behavioural science interventions and, more recently, pioneering work that takes a behavioural lens to the environment and to administrative burden Leonhard K. Lades (google.com)

It is a very exciting moment for the Economics division and for the Behavioural Science Centre to be welcoming someone of Leo's vision!




From: David Comerford <david.comerford@stir.ac.uk>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2023 12:15 PM
To: Kevin Grant <kevin.grant@stir.ac.uk>
Cc: Sam Shand <samshand@cowryconsulting.com>
Subject: Honorary lecturer
 
Hi Kevin and Sam,

I introduce you to one another - Kevin, Sam is the graduate from our MSc who I nominate as an honorary lecturer. Here is the justification that the board is seeking - let me know if there is anything I can help with:

Sam Shand is partnering with Prof David Comerford around the delivery of the MSc Behavioural Science. Sam is representing Cowry Consulting, one of the UK's foremost behavioural science consulting agencies. Cowry works predominantly with organisations in the financial services (e.g. Tesco Bank), retail (Ocado), public (Reducing Reoffending Partnership) and third (Dog’s Trust) sectors.

Cowry have developed a program to partner with academic institutions that offer programs in behavioural economics and behavioural science. So far they have partnered The University of Manchester, City University of London, Keele University, and Kingston University London.

The goal of the partnership is that our MSc students gain insights from someone working at the coalface of applied behavioural science; who knows about what clients demand and the challenges of applying behavioural science in organisations; and who has a sense of the market demand for behavioural science and up-coming areas in the industry.

An added benefit is that the partnership means that two of our MSc students will automatically be offered places on Cowry’s competitive Summer School. In addition, we will have the opportunity to nominate one of our students to receive a two-week period of work experience with Cowry.

The benefit for Cowry from this is that they will have a direct pipeline of well-trained behavioural scientists whom they can directly recruit to their graduate scheme. One key intention of the partnership with Stirling is to broaden this pipeline outside of London.

Sam Shand and Course Director David Comerford have worked out a model where Sam will deliver 4 guest lectures on applied behavioural science over the course of the academic year. Sam will also help to refine an existing assignment on the program - an experimental design project. Students will work with Sam and Prof Comerford to tailor the experiment we design so that it yields data that informs a live Cowry project.

In addition to the above, Sam will deliver a careers talk to students across the university on opportunities in Behavioural Science.

Moreover, Sam is exceptionally well placed to deliver on the above because Sam is a graduate of our MSc Behavioural Science at Stirling. At Stirling, Sam was jointly awarded our Research Based Learning Prize' - awarded for the best behavioural science dissertation and earned a distinction in his MSc. Prior to coming to Stirling, Sam spent the first 4 and half years of his career working in Organisational Change consultancy, primarily at the Pricewaterhouse Coopers consulting firm.

 

Cheers,
Dave

From: Sam Shand <samshand@cowryconsulting.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2023 12:35 PM
To: David Comerford <david.comerford@stir.ac.uk>
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Hi Dave,

Here's my CV for the nominating panel. Have a scan & let me know if there's any alternative angles you'd like me to bring out more.

Best wishes,
Sam

On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 11:58 AM David Comerford <david.comerford@stir.ac.uk> wrote:
Sam - I'll need your cv for the nominating panel
From: David Comerford <david.comerford@stir.ac.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2023 11:51 AM
To: Sam Shand <samshand@cowryconsulting.com>
Cc: Jez Groom <jezgroom@cowryconsulting.com>; Sarah Murray <sarahmurray@cowryconsulting.com>
Subject: Re: [{WARNING: Msg Size >4 Meg; *NOT* spamchecked} score ] Partnership content
 
Hi Sam,

Really good to talk on Friday and to see you again.

I had a meeting with our head of school and he likes this idea. I see no reason not to go with option 3 - Scale. I'll be in touch to work out with you a set of lectures that suits us all and to brainstorm about the group project. You might remember the experiment on antibiotic disposal that we did as a class in the Evidence-Based Decision Making module. I think it would be great if you provided us with a real-world problem and our students could work with me (and maybe you) to design a survey experiment that speaks to that problem. 

Kevin has to run your title past the higher ups but says there are precedents and as long as Cowry is not shown to be e.g. colluding with the Russian mafia it should go through no problem. Given that you would be involved in teaching / assessment the title would be "honorary lecturer". Has a formidable ring to it!

Let me know next steps - we have induction for our incoming students on Monday. It seems like a good motivator to flag at the induction that the summer school places and work experience will be offered this summer. 
  
Cheers,
Dave 
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Hi Dave,

Thanks so much for the chat today & a fantastic reunion day yesterday. Glad that you're excited about the possibilities of Cowry and Stirling partnering up!

As promised, I've attached a copy of the slides and you'll be able to access the Cowry case study video to share with the incoming cohort of BeSci students at this link.

Have a super weekend when it comes.

Best wishes,
Sam

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Sam Shand. 

Senior Behavioural Architect


+44 79254 77392

www.cowryconsulting.com

We Work, 3 Waterhouse Square, 138 Holborn, London, EC1N 2SW

Cowry Consulting is a limited company registered in England and Wales. 

Registered number: 9819435. Registered office: 82 St John Street, London, EC1M 4JN.


This email (with its attachments) is confidential to the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient please do not disclose, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you received this email in error please accept our apologies and promptly inform us by replying to theteam@cowryconsulting.com.
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