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An interdisciplinary approach to behaviour change for sustainability (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Paul Upham

Inhalt: CONTENT This course sets human psychology and behaviour in its sociological and socio-technical context. The premise is that if we want to encourage and enable pro-sustainability behaviour, we need to understand and address the individual, their social context and the technologies on which they depend in a coherent way. Addressing one dimension without awareness of the implications for, and insights from, the others arguably leads to less effective outcomes. There is some emphasis on energy in this course because that is my specialism, but you are free to present on a behaviour change related paper in relation to other aspects of sustainability - please just agree the paper with me first. If you have taken my Bachelors campaign planning / behaviour change, you will notice some overlaps, but you will have the opportunity here to deepen your knowledge. FORMAT The course runs on alternate weeks to give you time to prepare coursework. Thus there are two 4SWS seminars on alternate weeks. The coursework consists of (i) preparing for small group ‘structured readings’ and handing in a summary sheet of your discussion afterwards; (ii) a presentation on a different journal paper. Structured readings are in groups of five students. Journal paper presentations is in pairs (2 students) or as individuals, depending on attendee numbers. I will provide detailed guidance on structured reading, which involves reading a paper with a role in mind (discussion leader; passage master; devil’s advocate; creative connector; reporter) and then playing that role in small group discussion of the paper. I will provide a small pool of papers for the structured readings and these will be the same for all groups. For the presentations I will provide a larger pool of readings and you are free to choose among them, avoiding duplication. SCHEDULING In the first two seminars of the first week, firstly I will give an overview of the topics and theories. I will show you the journal papers that I have available, which explain and illustrate these topics/theories. My overview in this first week will include some lecturing, to introduce some of the main perspectives. Having done this, I will ask you to email me the title and authors of a paper of your choice that you will present on. The presentations should be about 40 minutes long including discussion. It often works best to structure a few periods of discussion into the course of the presentation. Secondly I will explain the structured reading. In the second week of the seminar (that's week 3 of the semester), we will begin the structured readings and the presentations. So each seminar will begin with s structured reading (45 minutes), followed by a journal paper presentation by a student pair/individual. The subsequent six weeks (alternating weeks, remember) will follow the same pattern, except towards the end of the semester. Please see the Agenda on myStudy. This allows for 10 structured reading sessions and 15 presentations in pairs (can be adjusted for more or fewer students).