The Policy Development Fund generously awarded £3550 to Manu Savani to support this policy engagement workshop.
It took place over May 15-16 2023 at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The event successfully achieved 3 objectives:
- Consolidated a Europe-wide behavioural public policy community of academics, practitioners and policy makers. Participants covered a range of fields including environmental behaviours, welfare and inequality, happiness and subjective wellbeing, public administration, and health behaviours.
- Created engagement opportunities including with European universities; research institutes such as the Rotterdam Behavioural Insights Group; policy organisations such as the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and European Commission; policy networks including the UK’s SPI-B advisory group; and the private sector including a major Dutch supermarket retailer.
- Raised Brunel University’s profile within this community.
, and the event X (Twitter) handle is @Behavioural21.
Manu Savani convened and moderated a session with policy makers and early career researchers on ‘publishing multidisciplinary work’ (day 1), drawing on her personal experiences with academic publication and as an Associate Editor at Political Studies Review (based at Brunel).