News and Events
Events
Is it better to nudge or think? How to get citizens involved in public policy - Project event on Wednesday 23 June 2010 at One Whitehall Place/The Royal Horseguards Hotel, 2 Whitehall Court, London SW1A 2EJ
Our end of project event will be held on 23 June 2010 at 1pm until 3pm and will include lunch, a presentation of our results so far, the launch of our on-line book 'Nudge, Nudge, Think, Think' which summarises all the experiments, to be followed by a round table and a general discussion. We will also carry out an activity for all the attendees such as an experiment to illustrate our methods and approach. An initial letter will be sent out in February/March 2010 and please do contact Margaret if you would like to attend this event.
General News
A paper by Sarah Cotterill and Liz Richardson on Expanding the Use of Experiments on Civic Behaviour: Experiments with Local Government as a Research Partner has just been published in the ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Vol 628 No 1, March 2010 pp 148-163 - to view this article please go to the journal website at http://online.sagepub.com or see the Outputs section for a link to the article home page.
The team will be presenting at various panels at the PSA Conference on 29 March - 1 April 2010 to be held in Edinburgh. Please see the Outputs page for details of the Abstracts - the papers will be available in the next few weeks.
Gerry and Alice to present a draft paper on Motivation, Behaviour and the future of Public Services for the 2020 Public Services Trust at a seminar on 18th February 2010 - the revised version of this paper will be available soon.
The pledging experiment is taking place in Manchester during February/March 2010 and we should have an update on this within the next few weeks.
The latest policy briefings on Building resilient communities: the Wiltshire Design Experiment and on the Deliberation Experiment - Understanding online engagement are now available. The next ones in the series will be published before June 2010.
To view short films of some of the groups who have participated in the Citizen Interest Groups research project, then please go to the following links:-
St Helens Group http://youtube.com/watch?v=xBDxfLm-tQ0
Bolton Group http://youtube.com/watch?v=vwENKgxFd2s
Bristol Group http://www.youtube.com/watch?v+acPfOqzeZ7E
The Nudge, nudge, think, think paperis also discussed in Matthew Taylor's blog please see the following link for more information:-
http://www.matthewtaylorsblog.com/socialbrain/nudge-nudge-think-think/
The Southampton team will be carrying out a new RCT amongst students to try and increase the number of registered organ donors. Students attending lectures will be randomized to treatment groups representing either Nudge or a combination of Nudge and Think.
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