What is The LSE Behavioural Lab (BL)?
The LSE Behavioural Lab facilitates world-class behavioural research by providing state-of-the-art facilities for researchers in Central London for LSE academics, students, and external partners.
The BL is a purpose built facility open to any department at LSE (and other institutions) and is co-hosted by the Department of Management and the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science.
Researchers in the past have used the Lab to examine behaviour in various fields, such as behavioural economics, psychology, judgement and decision making, management, marketing, organisational behaviour, behavioural public policy, and behavioural game theory.
We also invite applications and collaborative projects from external partners, including other academic institutions, governmental, international, commercial, and non-profit organisations.
Vision
Our vision is to be a global leader in facilitation of world-class behavioural research and research-led teaching, and to act as a cornerstone of an interdisciplinary community in behavioural science.
Mission
Our mission is to provide state-of-the art physical and online facilities for world-class behavioural academic research and teaching, including access to a unique and diverse participant pool suited to testing global interventions of cognition and behaviour.
In line with the LSE mottos “to know the causes of things” “for the betterment of society”, we engage with researchers, organisations, donors and funders, globally, who are motivated to improve the world through better understanding of human behaviour.
Sean Rooney
Lab Technician
Scientific Officer and Head of Laboratory Innovation
S.Rooney@lse.ac.uk
Professor Susana Mourato, LSE Vice-President and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research)
Professor Elizabeth Stokoe, LSE Academic Director of Impact
Dr Lyn Grove, Secretary and Research Governance Manager, LSE Research Ethics Committee
Rachel Baddeley, Associate Director, Leadership Philanthropy, Philanthropy and Global Engagement Division (PAGE)
Professor Sir Tim Besley, School Professor of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economics
Professor Joan Costa-i-Font, Department of Health Policy
Professor Liam Delaney, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Professor Daniel Gottlieb, Department of Management
Professor Adam Oliver, Department of Social Policy
Professor Anna Dreber Almenberg, Johan Bjorkman Professor of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics
Professor John List, Kenneth C Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, University of Chicago
Professor George Loewenstein, Herbert A Simon University Professor of Economics and Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
Professor Lucia Reisch, El-Erian Professor of Behavioural Economics & Policy and Director of the El-Erian Institute of Behavioural Economics & Policy, University of Cambridge Judge Business School
Professor Deborah Small, Adrian C Israel Professor of Marketing, Yale School of Management
Professor Matthias Sutter, Professor of Experimental Economics and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
Professor Marie Claire Villeval, Research Professor in Economics at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Head of GATE-Lab, University of Lyon.
The BL opened its doors in the highly uncertain times of the COVID-19 pandemics, at the end of 2019. The BL Steering Committee was set up to develop the new BL strategy and activities and ensure that standards and opportunities were developed to enhance scope and scale of research undertaken at the BL. That strategy is now in place and informs all operations.
| Name | Role | Department |
|---|
| Kenneth Benoit |
Professor of Computational Social Science |
Methodology |
| Anna Getmansky |
Assistant Professor of International Relations |
International Relations |
| Lyn Grove |
Research Governance Manager |
Research and Innovation |
| Champa Heidbrink |
Department Manager |
Psychological and Behavioural Science |
| David Hendry |
Assistant Professor in Research Methodology |
Methodology |
| Therese Holmqvist |
Executive MSc Programme and Behavioural Science Hub Manager |
Psychological and Behavioural Science |
| Rafael Hortala-Vallve |
Associate Professor in Public Policy and Administration |
Government |
| Heather Kappes |
Assistant Professor of Marketing |
Management |
| Matthew Levy |
Lecturer in Economics |
Economics |
| David Meech Mazumdar |
Department Manager, Strategic Planning & Development |
Management |
| Jet Sanders |
Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science |
Psychological and Behavioural Science |