The Network for Integrated Behavioural Science  
University of Nottingham
  

Research Awards

Management Group considered 'small grant' bids submitted by NIBS colleagues as part of a regular funding round and out-of-cycle bids for time sensitive researach.  Applicants were asked to provide a rationale for a bid to be considered 'out of cycle' and, if Management Group did not agree with the reasoning, a decision on the bid was deferred until the next regular funding round.

Bids were reviewed by the NIBS Management Group who placed weight on:  

  • the scientific rationale for the proposed work in the context of the Network objectives 
  • its potential to deliver significant outputs consistent with Network research objectives
  • affordability/value for money 
  • bids with potential to foster Network objectives of cross-institution and cross-disciplinary research  
  • bids that have potential to create impact 
  • ensuring that, where PhD or Post Doc input is requested, their overall work profiles within the Network are suitably career enhancing.

Bids had to include at least one NIBS Co-Investigator or Post Doc as a named collaborator but beyond this, there were no restrictions regarding who could bid.   

Recongising the diversity of projects, NIBS did not have a set application form however it asked that bids should include the following information.  

  1. Outline of proposed research
  2. Explain how the proposed research will contribute to the objectives of the Network
  3. Resources requested (and details of other funding supporting the research)
  4. The name of a lead researcher who will manage the award and be a key point of contact
  5. For bids requesting input of junior researchers, please explain their role (and whether, for instance, there will be opportunities for career enhancement).  Please specify requested researcher time as a percentage of their time across a specified number of weeks.
  6. Schedule for conduct of the research.  We expect that most bids funded will report back at September NIBS meetings.  

We would like to remind researchers that all NIBS-funded output should cite NIBS by name and grant number [ES/P008976/1], following recommended guidelines.

The ‘guide for successful bidders' (revised Dec 2018) explains the process for claiming funds awarded as part of NIBS2 - this is different from the system operated under NIBS1.

Successful Bids

  • Choice Overload and Stochastic Dominance
  • Survey of Attention and Financial Behaviour
  • Explaining the Attraction Effect using Query Theory
  • The Description-Experience Gap in Cooperation
  • Time Allocation and Bracketing Behaviours
  • To hide or not to hide? How fear and futility affect the decision to report a mistake
  • The determinants of consumer engagement: a price prediction approach
  • Sequential gambles with reinvestment
  • Preference reversals for losses and inter-temporal choices
  • Are You Being Skewed Over?
  • Investigating the influence of facemask wearing on trust and trustworthiness (phase one)
  • Experiment 3: Nudging Self-Reports of Medicines Adherence
  • Tests of cross-modal discounting with divisible rewards- experiment one
  • Information presentation and advice in decisions over risky assets
  • Delegation Preferences: Computers vs Humans
  • Avoidable mistakes: to hide or not to hide?
  • Time, Psychology of Scarcity & Bracketing
  • Routes II Experiment
  • The role of deception in stimulating negative evaluations of win-win corporate sustainability initiatives
  • A Replication Experiment
  • How does lottery format affect risk attitudes? *and a follow up project with 2 additional treatments
  • Associative Thinking *and a follow up study
  • The Mere Urgency Effect: an artefact of experimental design? *and a follow up project for continuation of the series of replication studies
  • Testing Preference Reversals in Risky Choice with Multiple Value Elicitation Methods & follow up
  • A Battle of Ideas: Resisting Persuasion to Avoid Defeat
  • Effect of Composite Dimensions in Multi-Attibute Health Choices
  • How to measure risk preferences: Towards bridging the disparate measurement traditions of revealed and stated preferences
  • The reason structure of context effects
  • The determinants of consumer engagement
  • Evasive Communication *and a follow up - Evasive Communication: The Role of Reputation
  • Lab Experimental Approaches to Measuring Individual Creativity (part funded)
  • Mechanisms Behind Nudging Adherence: A Randomised Controlled Trial *and a follow Nudging Self-Reports of Adherence: Replication & Intentions Follow-Up
  • Tainted Nudge
  • Investigating the Influence of Behavioural Factors on Consumers
  • Selling Winners or Losers
  • The Red, The Black, and The Plastic

You can also view the list of projects funded under our NIBS 1 grant period.

Much of this research has resulted in working papers and publications.  These can be found in the relevant section on our website.

NIBS - Network for Integrated Behavioural Science

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