Dec 06 2023
This week I travelled to New Zealand to attend the 25th edition of the Australian New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference. It was fun to learn that the very first edition of this conference, way back in 1998, was also held at the University of Otago in Dunedin. Apparently, at that first meeting, there were approximately …
Nov 18 2023
This week I traveled to San Francisco to attend the Psychonomic Society’s 64th Annual Meeting and the 44th Annual Conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. I arrived in town a couple of days early to put on my tourist shoes. I’ve been to SF multiple times before but nonetheless decided to stretch my …
Nov 07 2023
This week the UTS Business School, in partnership with the Global Association of Applied Behavioural Scientists (GAABS), hosted the 2023 UTS Behavioural Lab Conference. This year, the ~75 people in the room shared interests and expertise in behavioural science and its potential application to change behaviour in a way that limits our contribution to climate …
Dec 09 2022
My first visit to Australia’s west-most state took me to Perth to attend the 2022 Australia New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference. The conference theme was “Reconnect & reimagine” as the world started to move on from COVID, which allowed us to see old friends face-to-face for the first time in years. On the afternoon prior …
Nov 07 2022
Last week the UTS Business School, in partnership with the Global Association of Applied Behavioural Scientists (GAABS), hosted the 2022 UTS Behavioural Lab Conference. What brought together the ~75 people in the room was a shared interest and expertise in behavioural science and the belief that the people in the room – from academia, industry, …
Dec 06 2019
My first visit to New Zealand took me to Wellington to attend the 2019 Australia New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference. The conference theme was “Winds of Change” and I very quickly realised that the title was also a clue to the fact that Wellington is, arguably, the windiest city in the world. For most of …
Nov 18 2018
This week I traveled to New Orleans to attend the 39th Annual Conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. This was my second visit to NOLA. This time the weather was cold and windy – a low season for tourism. So, it wasn’t too much of a surprise when I was the only one …
Jan 05 2018
This week I was fortunate to be one of the few to participate in the Society for Consumer Psychology Boutique Conference on Vice and Virtue Consumption. One of the great things about small conferences – this one had less than 120 attendees – is that you get a lot more interaction with people. I find that conversations …
Dec 08 2017
This week my school hosted the Australia & New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference (ANZMAC). My colleague and friend, Dr. Linda Robinson, lead in the organisation of the conference, which included more than 400 delegates. The doctoral colloquium ran for two days and the main conference ran for three days. Organising this event required many hands-on …
Nov 14 2017
I slowly made my way up the US west coast from San Diego, CA to Eugene, OR before catching a flight to complete the journey to Vancouver, Canada to attend the 38th Annual Conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. Along the way I stopped at Huntington Beach, Los Angeles (highlight: Griffiths Observatory), Santa Barbara, Hearst …
