Prof. David Comerford

Economics Division, Stirling Management School, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA.

(+44 / 0) 75-42-188-166

Program Director, MSc 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.

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

Begin forwarded message:

From: Institute for Advanced Studies <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@stir.ac.uk>

Cc: Iain Docherty <iain.docherty@stir.ac.uk>, Karen Sutherland <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@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
Dean, Institute for Advanced Studies
University of Stirling
Stirling
FK9 4LA

Tel: +44 (0) 1786 466088
Email: iain.docherty@stir.ac.uk
Web: www.stir.ac.uk

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