Professor Patrick Devine-Wright’s expertise spans human geography and environmental psychology with a primary interest in the social acceptance of energy infrastructures, community engagement and place attachment. He is Director of the ESRC-funded ACCESS (Advancing Capacity for Climate and Environment Social Science) leadership…
In this talk, Prof. Plan will present forthcoming work from two projects with an emphasis on their theoretical and methodological grounding probing connections between health and time.
Suman Bery is currently Vice Chairperson of India’s NITI Aayog – the National Institute for Transforming India, in the rank and status of a Cabinet Minister. NITI Aayog is the apex public policy think tank of the Government of India (GOI), tasked with catalyzing economic development through knowledge, innovation and cooperative…
How can moments with potential for transformational change be recognized and acted upon? What can be learned from the dramatic change in efforts to loosen the grip of organized crime on public institutions in America in the 1960s, the reform of the Teamsters Union in the 1970s-1990s, and the current battle against corruption in…
We are pleased to announce that we will again be hosting a Conference on Management in the Public Sector (the agendas from prior years’ conferences are shown below). The Conference will have sessions starting on the afternoon of Thursday, April 13th and continuing all day on Friday, April 14th (the outline for the events is…
Dr. Sadaf Jaffer is an Assemblywoman representing New Jersey's 16th Legislative District. She advocates for the best interests of NJ's 9.2 million residents with special attention to her district’s 230,000 constituents. She has championed increased funding for 9-1-1 call centers, teen suicide prevention programming, and…
Machine learning algorithms are widely used for decision making in societally high-stakes settings from child welfare and criminal justice to healthcare and consumer lending. Recent history has illuminated numerous examples where these algorithms proved unreliable or inequitable. This talk will show how causal inference enables…
