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Below are details of some studentship opportunities. The three Stirling ones are open to potential supervisors to apply for and if you are currently speaking to a supervisor here or about to get in touch they are worth asking about. The key mechanism to apply for funding from the student perspective is through the ESRC. Details of ESRC PhD studentship...

Thanks for reading over the year. Has not been the most active year on the blog partly due to things being very active in the research group. Look forward to posting more regularly throughout the next few months. As always open to suggestions. In terms of the research group, we are now a core group of 18 researchers ranging from PhD student to Professor...

Readers might be interested to hear how Behavioural Science applies to a topical issue such as climate change. With COP21 now over, society must now ponder how it might reach those aims set out. Professor Tania Lombrozo (UC Berkeley) highlighted on National Public Radio How Psychology Can Save The World from Climate Change. (http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2015/11/30/457835780/how-psychology-can-save-the-world-from-climate-change)In...

1. Does happiness itself directly affect mortality? The prospective UK Million Women Study. Lancet 20152. Angus Deaton Nobel Lecture on "Measuring and understanding behavior, welfare, and poverty"3. More positions available at the Behavioural Insights Team4. Very interesting Andy Haldane speech on the future of the labour market 5. Why the...

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Thanks everybody for attending our SIRE workshop on the "Behavioural Science of Self-Control" on Friday December 4th! We had fantastic presentations from world-leading economic and psychological self-control researchers and engaged in extremely interesting discussions about how...