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We are glad to announce that the 14th annual one day conference on Economics and Psychology will be held on December 14th, 2021 virtually on Zoom.The event will take place between 12pm and 5pm. The conference is jointly organised by the UCD Behavioural Science and Policy Group located at the UCD Geary Institute, the ESRI Behavioural Research Unit, and the Department for Psychological and Behavioural Science at LSE.The purpose of these sessions is to develop the link between Economics, Psychology, and cognate disciplines throughout Ireland. A special theme of these events is the implications of behavioural economics for public policy. [...]

  On March 3 2021, the Behavioural Science and Policy group organized a virtual policy workshop on The Role of Mental Health in Public Policy . The goal of the workshop was to bring together academics and practitioners to discuss the  the implications of growing mental health issues on policy design in the areas of labour market, financial, education and health policies  the impact of public policy design itself on the mental health of individuals  the role of public policy to address inequalities that individuals with mental health issues experience Over 130 people registered for the online event, which was attended by [...]

The 2020 PhD Conference in Behavioural Science will take place (virtually) on December 10th, 2020 at 1pm. Register for attending the conference here: https://ucd-ie.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5ApdOipqzkiGNfKThxNZiUsxtyySAO0BfV6 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. The conference will be hosted by the Behavioural Science and Policy Group at the Geary Institute for Public Policy based in University College Dublin in collaboration with researchers from the Stirling Behavioural Science Centre. This continues successful annual events held at Stirling and Dublin. For information about previous PhD conferences click these links: 2015, 2017, 2018. We will use the Zoom [...]

The Behavioural Science and Policy Group is hosting a virtual "Mini-Workshop" on Behavioural Economics and Self-control November 4, 2pm - 4pm on Zoom. Participation is free but you'll have to register to participate. Register for this meeting by clicking here: https://ucd-ie.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rd-yoqj8pHNawSntmlCJgMADA7HRX67rR After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. We will approve you manually to avoid Zoom bombers. Feel free to send questions to leonhard.lades@ucd.ie. The preliminary schedule is below: 14:00 - 14:05: Introduction 14:05 - 14:30: Dr Leonhard Lades on "Eliciting Future Bias" 14:30 - 14:55: Dr Margaret Samahita on "Pessimism and [...]

We are glad to announce that the 13th annual one day conference on Economics and Psychology will be held on December 11th, 2020 virtually on Zoom. The event will take place between 1pm and 5pm. The conference is jointly organised by the UCD Behavioural Science and Policy Group, the ESRI Behavioural Research Unit, the Irish Behavioural Science Network, and the Department for Psychological and Behavioural Science at LSE. The purpose of these sessions is to develop the link between Economics, Psychology, and cognate disciplines throughout Ireland. A special theme of these events is the implications of behavioural economics for [...]

The 12th annual one day conference on Economics and Psychology will be held on November 29th in Dublin, jointly organised by researchers in ESRI and UCD. The purpose of these sessions is to develop the link between Economics, Psychology, and cognate disciplines throughout Ireland. A special theme of these events is the implications of behavioural economics for public policy. Registration to attend is free of charge. The event takes place in the seminar room of the Economic and Social Research Institute. To register for the workshop, please click here. Preliminary programme 8.50am to 9am: Registration and [...]