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Call for Submissions to BSPA Inaugural Conference

  • 1.  Call for Submissions to BSPA Inaugural Conference

    Posted 02-16-2015 13:44
    This is a call for submissions to the Behavioral Science and Policy Association's (BSPA) Inaugural Conference (on June 18, 2015 in New York, NY). For more details, visit: http://behavioralpolicy.org/blog/2015/02/04/call-for-presenters/

    BSPA is a new organization whose mission is to intensify the dialogue between behavioral scientists and policy makers and promote the application of rigorous behavioral science research to public and private sector policy and practice.  BSPA's Inaugural conference will feature a conversation between Dick Thaler (The University of Chicago) and David Brooks (The New York Times), as well as keynotes from Cass Sunstein (Harvard University), Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard University), Chip Heath (Stanford University), Kevin Volpp (The University of Pennsylvania), Elke Weber (Columbia University), Ron Haskins (The Brookings Institution), Dean Karlan (Yale University), Max Bazerman (Harvard University) and Adam Grant (The University of Pennsylvania). Plenary panelists will include David Gergen (Harvard University and CNN), Maya Shankar (Director of the White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team), and Josh Wright (Executive Director of ideas42). The conference will also include receptions and an opportunity to help shape the agenda of BSPA.

    The meeting will feature competitive presentation sessions covering six of the most important areas where we believe behavioral scientists should be influencing policy:  (1) Health, (2) Energy and the Environment, (3) Education and Culture, (4) Financial Decision Making, (5) Justice and Ethics, and (6) Management, Technology and Innovation

    We are now accepting competitive presentation submissions for five-minute talks designed to inform and influence academics, policy makers and managers.  These will not be traditional conference talks and need not describe work in progress. They should survey your research findings (potentially from multiple papers) that you would like to share with a broader audience and that you believe have meaningful implications for policy and practice. These talks should not be overly technical (think TED-style).

    Submissions must be submitted to http://bit.ly/1A6pHTK by 11:59 PM on March 11, 2015 and must include:
    (1) Presenter's name, affiliation, title, and contact information; 
    (2) Presentation title (100 characters or less);
    (3) A 400 word abstract summarizing the planned talk;
    (4) MLA-style reference(s) to any published work that will be described;
    (5) The presentation's broad topic (e.g., Health or Justice and Ethics)

    Please note: Space at the conference will be limited. Priority will be given to presenters, BSPA Board Members, and BSPA members according to the length of their tenure in the Association. To enroll in BSPA, please follow this link: http://bit.ly/1tEsmlm

    Conference Organizers:  Craig Fox (UCLA), Katherine Milkman (Wharton), and Sim Sitkin (Duke)