Thinking Like a Social Scientist lunchtime lecture series
Date: Thursday 22 October 2009
Time: 1.05pm
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speakers: Dr Joan Costa-i-Font, Dr Caroline Rudisill
In this lunchtime series of lectures, a selection of LSE's academics from across the spectrum of the social sciences explain the latest thinking on how social scientists work to address the critical problems of the day. They survey the leading ideas and contributions made by their discipline, explain the types of problems that are addressed and the tools that are used, and explore the kinds of solutions proposed.
This lecture will cover the rationale for performing risk and behavioural economics research in health policy and other related policy applications. It will discuss a few recent results in the areas of ageing, genetically modified food and avian flu.
Dr Joan Coast-i-Font is a senior research fellow in Health Economics and a lecturer in European Social Policy at LSE. Dr Caroline Rudisill is a lecturer in Health Economics at the LSE and at King's College London. She is also deputy director of the MSc in Health Economics, Policy and Management at the LSE.
The next lecture in this series, Analysing risk assessment in child protection policy and practice will take place on Thursday 29 October.
A list of all the lectures in the Thinking Like a Social Scientist lunchtime lecture series can be found here.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For more information, email events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043.
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