Abstract:In recent years behavioural science has quickly become embedded in national level policy making. As the contributions of behavioural science to the UK’s Covid-19 response policies in early 2020 became apparent, a debate emerged in the British media about its involvement. This served as a unique opportunity to capture public discourse and representation of behavioural science in fast-track, high-stake national policy making. Aimed at identifying elements which foster and detract from trust and credibility in em… Show more
“…The integration of well-being considerations into emergency preparedness and response also comes with a number of questions, while the extent to which the public trust and value inputs from social and behavioural science relative to STEM is still not apparent. In a recent paper Sanders et al [55], find that the media discourse around the role of behavioural science in the UK's Covid response was largely positive, but highly controversial with regard to the specific inputs that drove the central response. Understanding trust in social science in highstakes environments is thus a high priority for capacity building in this area, in particular understanding both public and policymakers perception of the role of social and behavioural scientists in expert advisory groups.…”
Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at LSE. Annette currently works on a large government-funded project in Tyrol (Austria) that seeks to develop, implement, and evaluate a social-network intervention for children of parents with a mental illness.
“…The integration of well-being considerations into emergency preparedness and response also comes with a number of questions, while the extent to which the public trust and value inputs from social and behavioural science relative to STEM is still not apparent. In a recent paper Sanders et al [55], find that the media discourse around the role of behavioural science in the UK's Covid response was largely positive, but highly controversial with regard to the specific inputs that drove the central response. Understanding trust in social science in highstakes environments is thus a high priority for capacity building in this area, in particular understanding both public and policymakers perception of the role of social and behavioural scientists in expert advisory groups.…”
Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at LSE. Annette currently works on a large government-funded project in Tyrol (Austria) that seeks to develop, implement, and evaluate a social-network intervention for children of parents with a mental illness.
“…The integration of wellbeing considerations into emergency preparedness and response also comes with a number of questions, while the extent to which the public trust and value inputs from social and behavioural science relative to STEM is still not apparent. In a recent paper Sanders et al [54], find that the media discourse around the role of behavioural science in the UK's COVID-19 response was largely positive, but highly controversial with regard to the specific inputs that drove the central response. Understanding trust in social science in highstakes environments is thus a high priority for capacity building in this area, in particular understanding both public and policy-makers perception of the role of social and behavioural scientists in expert advisory groups.…”
This chapter discusses the potential for wellbeing research to be institutionalised into emergency response in the UK. We review the short and long-run wellbeing impacts of COVID-19 policies and argue for a wider scope of groups such as the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE). The potential form of such response could be based both on emerging multi-dimensional societal wellbeing frameworks and on rapid and scalable policy appraisal capacities that incorporate wellbeing considerations.
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