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Conference programme is now available
Our provisional conference programme is now available. Please click on the attachments below to view details of the upcoming two-day event. If you are a presenter, please take a note of your allocated date and time.
In the instance where you will not be able to present at the event or your allocated day/time please email behaviourchange@ucl.ac.uk by Sunday 22 March.
Presenter Guidelines
We encourage all presenters to read the guidelines for author presentations:
Oral, Panel and Symposia Presentations
- Rooms at the venue have PowerPoint facilities
- You must register in order to be able to present you work
- Presenters must send their slide presentations to behaviourchange@ucl.ac.uk by Tuesday 31 March 2020 in order to avoid any technical issues on the day
- Please save your presentation titles as 'NAME OF PRESENTER_SESSION LETTER_FIRST FOUR WORDS OF TITLE'
- Refer to the presenter guidelines to help you prepare your abstract for presentation
Poster Presentations
- Recommended size is A0. Posters must be prepared as portrait, not landscape
- Please hang your poster on day 1 (Monday 06 April) of conference
- Each poster has been allocated a unique ID and interactive poster session.
- All poster boards will be organised by session and poster IDs. Please make sure you hang your poster in the correct place
- Please refer to the presenter guidelines for details on format of posters
Conference tracks
This year authors will be asked to nominate the conference track which best 'fits' their submission. We welcome the submission of abstracts to the following tracks:
The Science of Behaviour Change
- Including advances in the theory, measurement and understanding of behaviour change in online and offline interventions
Methodology
- Including methods for evaluating process, user experience, and outcomes; innovations in analysing complex data; and novel designs (e.g. Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA), N-of-1)
Emerging Technologies
- Including wearables, sensors, just in time methods, and other novel technologies not yet proven for health behaviour change but with the potential application to health
Real-World Applications
- Including commercialisation (financial aspects, scalability) and implementation in the private sector, public sector, or charitable sector
Current Technologies
- Including established and pervasive technologies, such as web, SMS or more traditional mobile device apps that have been applied to health behaviour change.
Keynote speakers
We are excited to announce three exceptional keynote speakers for the next conference:
Professor Wendy Wood
Department of Psychology & Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
Why Don't We Stick with Behavior Change?
People are pretty good at changing their behavior in the short term. After deciding to eat more healthfully, most of us can forgo dessert tonight. The challenge comes over time, as few of us stick with that decision. In this talk, I will argue that habits are a central reason for this failure. Although people naturally persist by forming habits, it’s not easy to understand how habits work. In fact, we may know least about the actions that we do most often. I explain the basic features of habit formation and change and then present research on how people understand their own habits.
Wendy Wood is the Provost Professor of Psychology and Business at the University of Southern California. Her research addresses the ways that habits guide behaviour - and why they are so difficult to break. Her 2019 book Good Habits, Bad Habits was published by FSG/Pan MacMillan. In the past Dr Wood has served as Texas A&M University’s Associate Vice President for Research, Duke University’s Co-Director of Social Science Research Institute, and University of Southern California’s Vice Dean of Social Sciences. Dr. Wood is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, Society for Experimental Social Psychology, and a founding member of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology. She was president of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and has served as editor of numerous journals including Behavioral Science and Policy, Psychological Review, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Personality and Social Psychology Review. She has published over 100 articles, and her research has received numerous awards and distinctions.
Dr Rachel Carey
Zinc & Health Psychology Research Group, University of College London
Startups as experiments: A behavioural science approach
New startups can provide a range of opportunities for behavioural science. This talk will explore how new ventures can adopt a more systematic approach to behavioural science, and how we can maximise their potential to improve health and advance knowledge.
Dr Rachel Carey is Chief Scientist at Zinc, where her work centres on maximising the R&D potential of new start-ups – translating existing evidence and creating new collaborative research opportunities. In recent years Rachel has carved out a career path at the intersection of academia and industry. She joined the UCL Centre for Behaviour Change in 2014, where she led the Theories and Techniques of Behaviour Change Project. After leaving her academic post, she joined Bupa’s clinical team as Senior Behaviour Change Research Advisor, where she led a collaborative programme of work with UCL and delivered training workshops internationally. Since joining Zinc in 2017, she has helped to shape over 30 new mission-driven start-ups, exercising her passion for combining behavioural science with creative design, emerging technologies, and entrepreneurship. In 2019 she was awarded funding to build and lead a new interdisciplinary R&D team at Zinc. In her honorary role at UCL she continues to deliver training and teaching in behavioural science, transport psychology, and digital health.
Professor Heleen Riper
Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, VU University Amsterdam
*Speaker bio and abstract to be uploaded soon.
Please note as part of the Centre's committment to sustainability we will not be providing printed copies of the programme at the 2020 conference. Delegates will be asked to download an electronic copy of the programme from our website or use the conference app.