Hi Matthew, Liz, Jasmine and the whole PhD lab,

Thanks for your email! Glasgow will organise this one in mid May. The idea was always to have this being organised by different groups every year. Maybe we'll do it again for 2026.

I'm up for organising other workshops though! I have more cognitive capacity from mid March onwards.

We need a topic and 1 to 3 presentations from Stirling folks to make it worth our effort.

Then we organise tea and lunch and make it a 'free' event (ie we don't pay for speakers).

Any thoughts topics? Let's make a long list to pick from and think of money afterwards.

We have one planned on the Economic Psychology of Public Approval of Environmental Policies for September 2025.

I would like to do one on sludge and administrative burden.

Another one on the Behavioural Science of Home Energy Improvements.

Please add your suggestions here!

From: Matthew Belanger <matthew.belanger@stir.ac.uk>
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2025 1:17:26 PM
To: Leonhard Lades <l.k.lades@stir.ac.uk>
Cc: Elizabeth Barnes <elizabeth.barnes@stir.ac.uk>; Jasmine Yang <jasmine.yang@stir.ac.uk>
Subject: Taking over conference organisation

Hi Leo! Hope you are doing well. ☺️

I wanted to write to enquire about taking over the organisation of the Scottish Behavioural Science Conference for 2025.

Liz mentioned to me that your teaching workload may be too much this semester to organise it again. If that is the case, we would be more than happy to take this on.

In fact, I am on a scholarship contract, so I am meant to be doing these kinds of things anyway...

It was one of the best and most impactful conferences I've attended, and I was able to connect with a handful of people (incl. Liz!) with whom I still talk almost 1 year later.

We thought it would be a pity if it did not happen again so please let us know what you think 😄

Best wishes,

Dr. Matthew Belanger
Lecturer in Substance Use
Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology

Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Stirling

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Stirling
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Email: matthew.belanger@stir.ac.uk
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