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Professor Daniel Sgroi: Plenary Lecture 2023: Measuring National Wellbeing in the Past

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 17:51:31 GMT

Professor Daniel Sgroi delivered the Plenary Lecture at the Economic History Society annual conference this year.

COPR Funding Opportunity

Wed, 12 Apr 2023 08:17:30 GMT

BBS GRP Small Grant Scheme has reopened for applications!

Fri, 06 Jan 2023 09:32:54 GMT

The Behaviour, Brain & Society GRP Small Grant Scheme has now reopened for applications!

Pump-priming Funds for Police-Related Research

Wed, 04 Jan 2023 15:02:07 GMT

The Brain, Behaviour and Society GRPLink opens in a new window has granted COPR a small pot of money (£5000) to support Warwick researchers who are conducting interdisciplinary police-related research.

If you're a Warwick researcher and have a small pilot project, workshop, panel discussion, seminar series, impact activity etc you wish to launch between now and 31 July, 2023, and require a small amount of financial support, please contact Profs Jackie Hodgson (Jackie.Hodgson@warwick.ac.uk) and Kim Wade (K.A.Wade@warwick.ac.uk). The fund is available to support pump-priming activities such as research assistance for literature reviews, pilot projects, uniting potential collaborators, or co-creation with non-academic stakeholders.

Send Profs Jackie Hodgson and Kim Wade a 1-page (max) outline of your project objectives, description of activities, intended outputs, timeline and brief budget.

The fund is available to support Warwick researchers at all stages in their career, including PhD students.

WBIT Collaboration with LSE & UCL for Careers Fair

Tue, 06 Dec 2022 09:02:00 GMT

The Warwick Behavioural Insights Team (WBIT) are working with LSE and UCL to host the first London Behavioural Sciences careers fair for students across the UK.

The careers fair will take place on the 21st March 2023 in The Royal Society in central London. Through attending, employers will meet and connect with 200+ students from top UK universities who are passionate about pursuing a career in behavioural science.

Call for Forces to Participate in New Research

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 13:53:00 GMT

Call for Forces to Participate in New Research

Rebecca Plimmer is a PhD student in the Psychology Department at Warwick University. Rebecca’s research explores the extent to which individual factors, such as officer and suspect demographic’s, behaviour, personality traits, and values, best predict attitudes about violence (e.g., rape and sexual assault/violence against women, racial discrimination, violent ideation) and decision making (i.e., use of force acceptability and reporting). Rebecca is aiming to obtain a sample of over 500 police officers from forces across England and Wales. Her project has received Chief Officer approval from West Mercia and the research is under review at West Midlands and Warwickshire Police. If this research is something you would be interested in taking part in, advertising, or know of any other police forces/contacts who may be interested in take part, please contact Rebecca (Rebecca.plimmer@warwick.ac.uk).

Congratulations to University of Warwick's Professor Andrew Oswald named as 'Nobel Prize class’ researcher

Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:38:00 GMT

Professor Andrew Oswald, Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science at the University of Warwick, has been named a Citation Laureate by the prestigious Institute of Scientific Information, for his pioneering contributions to the economics of happiness and well-being.

Professor Oswald joins an esteemed group of world-class researchers to receive the honour, many of whom have gone on to receive a Nobel Prize.

Official statistics underestimate wealth inequality

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 18:35:00 GMT

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/centres/cage/news/07-01-22-official_statistics_underestimate_wealth_inequality/

Omicron has seen a surge in COVID misinformation. 2 experts explain how to combat it

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 18:15:00 GMT

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/01/covid-misinformation-omicron-and-how-to-combat-it/?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2766027_Agenda_weekly-4February2022&utm_term=&emailType=Agenda%20Weekly

Latest Results from World Wellbeing Panel Survey

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 14:30:00 GMT

https://bse.eu/research/world-wellbeing-panel/wellbys

In December 2021, members of the World Wellbeing Panel were asked for their views on two statements relating to the recently formulated concept of WELLBYs. As defined by the UK Treasury: “A WELLBY equates to a one-point change in life satisfaction on a 0-10 scale, per person per year.”1 It is related to the concept of Happiness Adjusted Life Years (HALYs)2, also called Happy Life Years, or Happy life-expectancy, for which time series exist.3

The two statements were as follows:

(i) "The WELLBY cost-benefit methodology will soon become a standard tool for policy development and evaluations in the state bureaucracy of most OECD countries"; and

(ii) "The WELLBY cost-benefit methodology as it is now adopted by the UK and New Zealand bureaucracy will give a greater weight to mental health, social relations, and the environment in cost-benefit calculations than the classic economic methods it replaces."

16 of the World Wellbeing Panelists responded.