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, and government – could together leverage that interest and expertise to potentially change the world in some way.
I was quite pleased with the program we put together, which you can check out here.
I want to thank Prof. Carl Rhodes, dean of the UTS Business School, for opening the conference and providing the vision behind the event.
I want to thank Nathalie Spencer, Chapter Lead of GAABS Asia-Pacific, for being a champion for the event.
I want to thank our keynote speakers, Prof. Loretti Isabella Dobrescu (UNSW), Prof. Rebekah Russell-Bennett (QUT), Prof. Ben Newell (UNSW), and William R. Mailer (CBA), for sharing their experience and wisdom.
I want to thank our UTS Behavioural Lab speakers from the Economics UTS department: A/Prof. David Goldbaum, A/Prof. Jun Zhang, Dr Elif Incekara-Hafalir, Dr Nathan Kettlewell, and Maximilian Reisner.
I want to thank our UTS Behavioural Lab speakers from the UTS Marketing department: A/Prof. Natalina Zlatevska, Dr Geetanjali Saluja, Dr TaeWoo Kim, Dr Jake An, and Aimee Smith.
I want to thank Dr Elif Incekara-Hafalir Incekara Hafalir, Deputy Director of the UTS Behavioural Lab, who co-organised the event with me and took the lead on the day after I had to bow out due to illness.
Finally, I want to thank the administrative support we got from the UTS Business Research Office, particularly from Candice Gouck who designed an amazing program.
It was a great event and I hope we’ll be able to do something together again next year.