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Future STI priorities: stakeholdersâ views on how science, technology and innovation can help achieve the SDGs
⢠This chapter presents the results of a global survey of stakeholders.
⢠Survey respondents proposed the STI areas and activities that they believe could help to achieve the SDGs by 2030.
⢠Their responses highlighted a range of STI areas, including policy-oriented, social and grassroots innovations, which are often overlooked in the existing STI system.
⢠Several STI areas were identified as potentially having a positive influence on the achievement of multiple SDGs.
⢠The survey results also highlighted that some STI activities may support one particular SDG target at the same time as impeding progress towards another
A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms
Open scholarship has transformed research, and introduced a host of new terms in the lexicon of researchers. The âFramework for Open and Reproducible Research Teachingâ (FORRT) community presents a crowdsourced glossary of open scholarship terms to facilitate education and effective communication between experts and newcomers
Embedding open and reproducible science into teaching: A bank of lesson plans and resources
Recently, there has been a growing emphasis on embedding open and reproducible approaches into research. One essential step in accomplishing this larger goal is to embed such practices into undergraduate and postgraduate research training. However, this often requires substantial time and resources to implement. Also, while many pedagogical resources are regularly developed for this purpose, they are not often openly and actively shared with the wider community. The creation and public sharing of open educational resources is useful for educators who wish to embed open scholarship and reproducibility into their teaching and learning. In this article, we describe and openly share a bank of teaching resources and lesson plans on the broad topics of open scholarship, open science, replication, and reproducibility that can be integrated into taught courses, to support educators and instructors. These resources were created as part of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) hackathon at the 2021 Annual Conference, and we detail this collaborative process in the article. By sharing these open pedagogical resources, we aim to reduce the labour required to develop and implement open scholarship content to further the open scholarship and open educational materials movement
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Dynamic norms and sustainable eating: communicating changing norms to change behaviour
The climate crisis is undeniably a global emergency: both systemic and individual change are needed to mitigate against high levels of carbon in the atmosphere. Meat consumption is a major driver of greenhouse gas emissions, and one of the most impactful actions an individual may take is reducing their meat consumption. The social context plays an important role in peopleâs eating choices, and social psychological research has found powerful effects of social norms on eating behaviour. Influencing people to eat more sustainably by reducing their meat consumption is challenging, as only the minority do so in most parts of the world. Recent research shows that presenting information about a change in the norm can encourage people to adopt attitudes and behaviours even when these do not yet represent the prevailing norm. These changing norms are referred to as âdynamic normsâ in the literature. This area of research is still young, and there is a large degree of heterogeneity in effects found previously. Dynamic norms research varies considerably in its implementation and there are many questions about the predictors of successful dynamic norm messaging.This thesis is a deep-dive into the use of dynamic norm information to influence meat consumption outcomes. Following the introduction, this thesis begins with a direct replication of a well-known study testing the effect of dynamic norms on interest in reducing meat consumption (Study 1 and Study 2). This chapter also explores the effect of dynamic norms on other cognitive predictors of meat consumption such as attitudes, intentions, and expectations, using Bayesian estimation. Chapters 3â4 further investigate the effect of dynamic norms using different messaging techniques to test and refine the communication of dynamic norms (Studies 3â5). Chapter 4 also expands on other studies by investigating short-term changes in meat consumption over a period of one week. Taken together, dynamic norms may have a strong influence on peopleâs behaviour under certain conditions, and careful consideration of messaging content and format is necessary for effective use. The thesis concludes with a discussion of the findings, and provides an overview of lessons learnt and recommendations for future research and practice.</p
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Dynamic norms and food choice: reflections on a failure of minority norm information to influence motivation to reduce meat consumption
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Steering science, technology and innovation towards the Sustainable Development Goals
This policy brief summarises the results of the Steering Research and Innovation for Global Goals (STRINGS) project â a major global study into the alignment between science, technology and innovation (STI) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It highlights a glaring mismatch between STIs and the SDGs; warns that, if this mismatch is not addressed, it will undermine progress on the SDGs; and makes recommendations about how to tackle this imbalance. It is largely based on the STRINGS report summary