Nov 29 2024
Earlier this month, I embarked on a solo journey to Vancouver, Canada, for a short visiting stint at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business. My incredible hosts, Associate Professor Dave Hardisty and Dr Kirstin Appelt, welcomed me warmly into their family—complete with cuddles from Evie, their fluffy and affectionate dog, and Cleo, …
Oct 28 2024
I count myself incredibly lucky for many reasons, but here’s one that stands out: my work. Every 3.5 years, my university grants me the rare opportunity to step away from teaching and administrative duties for a research sabbatical. It’s a chance to dream big, launch ambitious projects, and collaborate with brilliant people I might otherwise …
Aug 28 2024
Last week, I had the great privilege of travelling to Hobart and presenting my research to University of Tasmania Behavioural Lab members. It was great fun to be reunited with my former RMIT University lab mates, Professor Swee-hoon Chuah, Professor Robert Hoffmann, and Dr Ananta Neelim. My talk was about nudging sustainable food choices and …
May 23 2024
A new area of interest for me is “gamification”, which is the injection of game elements into non-game contexts to motivate and engage people. I recently had a paper published that discussed how gamification could be used to engage employees. My collaborator on that paper, Ananta Neelim, and I decided to broaden our perspective and …
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 …
Sep 06 2023
I am very happy to announce the publication of my latest paper, “An investigation of big life decisions” in the journal Judgment and Decision Making. Special thanks go to Ashleigh Powell, Katherine Newton, Nathan Moore, and Rebecca Dooley for helping me to code up the data. Special thanks also to Alex Kroeger for helping me …
Aug 04 2023
A huge welcome to Eunbin O and Nathan Moore who have recently joined me at UTS. At the same time, congratulations and farewell to Ella Bruce who has now completed her PhD and is on her way to bigger and better things. Eunbin will be working for the next 2 years or so on a …
Jun 20 2023
I am very pleased to announce the publication of my latest paper, “Increasing worker motivation using a reward scheme with probabilistic elements” in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. This is a joint paper with Katarina Dankova, Jose Ortiz (“Nano!”), and Ananta Neelim. The paper came into existence in 2016 when the RMIT …
