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Seminar – Real life investigations of Sustainability Conundrums: Drawing together Human Behaviour and Living Lab approaches
January 30, 2019 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
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Real life investigations of Sustainability Conundrums: Drawing together Human Behaviour and Living Lab approaches
Abstract
Understanding how to study theoretical empirical questions in real life scenarios with the messy data associated with it is a complex problem.
In this talk I will address this challenge from two perspectives. Firstly, my PhD research focussed on understanding how human cooperative behaviour changes when it is studied in a laboratory in comparison to large scale naturalistic observational studies.
Secondly I will talk about it from a far more applied point of view using examples of past and present Living Laboratory projects where research has been used to inform operations.
About
I’ve recently come to Cambridge to work in the University’s Environment and Energy Section running the Living Laboratory for Sustainability.
Prior to this I did a PhD in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Edinburgh looking at Variation in Human Cooperative Behaviour. During this time I did a policy placement at the Royal Society on climate change policy. In Edinburgh I also set up an art-science collaborative and ran workshops to encourage creative and lateral thinking around hypothesis generation and communicating science.
I have a masters in Biodiversity, Evolution and Conservation from UCL and have worked on a number of research projects varying from conservation metrics at ZSL to bowerbird behaviour with the University of Exeter.
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