Monthly meetings Online on Zoom
The BeCS (Behaviour Change Science) seminar features speakers from our network and beyond, presenting work in progress and work completed. The seminar series is organized by the BeCS Network in Finland. Anyone interested in our topics is welcome to join the seminar!
Autumn 2024 schedule:
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Welcome to the Behaviour Change Science seminar session on Wednesday 20th November at 14:00 – 15:30 (EET, UTC+2).
The speakers will be:
- Matti Heino: ”Attuning to the Behaviour Change Process: Complex Systems Perspectives to How Professionals Adopt Motivating Interaction”
- Elina Renko: ”Motivoivan haastattelun omaksuminen ja ylläpitäminen lapsi- ja perhesosiaalityössä” (in Finnish).
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Autumn 2023 schedule and speakers:
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Thursday 31.8.2023
- Elina Renko, Miira Niska: Mistä on hyvä sisällönanalyysi tehty? Keskustelua sisällönanalyysista ja temaattisesta analyysista
Thursday 28.9.2023
- Kaisa Saurio: Avoimen tieteen perusteet: MOOC ja avoin materiaali
Thursday 26.10.2023
- Malin Ekholm: Developing effective self-management support in the care of chronic kidney disease: Research plan for the Better Health at Home -project
- Melina Puolamäki: A feasibility study of the MotiStyleSport intervention (preliminary title)
Thursday 30.11.2023
- Joel Crawford (Linköping University, Sweden): Using digital interventions to change lifestyle behaviours
Spring 2023 schedule and speakers:
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Thursday 16.2.2023
- Matti Heino: Weaving Systems into Behavioural Public Policy: Attractors and (Anti-)Fragilities
- Daniel Phipps: The Role of Explicit and Implicit Processes on Health Behaviours (A PhD Summary)
Thursday 9.3.2023
- Elina Renko: Analysis process in longitudinal qualitative research: Some insights
- Kaitlyn Werner: A polyregulation approach to self-control
Thursday 30.3.2023
- Melina Puolamäki: MotiStyleSport: Pilottitutkimuksesta RCT-vaiheeseen (lyhyt esitys yhteistyökumppaneille)
- Minttu Palsola: Miten tukea sosiaalityöntekijöiden motivointitaitojen muutosta ja muutoksen pysyvyyttä? Alustavia pohdintoja käyttäytymismuutoskeinojen opettamisesta Taitava-hankkeen MI-interventiossa
Thursday 20.4.2023
- Roope Kaaronen (UH): Heuristics in the wild
- Sophie Green: Optimising complex interventions: the development and optimisation of a complex intervention to support medication adherence in women with breast cancer
Thursday 11.5.2023
- Jenni Spännäri: Virtual reality – not only fun and games. Transforming organizational culture with VR-based methods
- Prof. Nelli Hankonen: How could the self-determination theory be used in public policy? A qualitative study of public servants’ views during a behavioral and systems insight training (Conference talk rehearsal for the SDT conference 2023)
Thursday 8.6.2023
- Anu Linnansaari: Rehearsal for lectio praecursoria
- Matti Heino: ”What a horrible thought, that I might have graduated without doing this course”: Pedagogical solutions for fun and profit during CARMA (Critical Appraisal of Research Methods and Analysis)
Autumn 2022 schedule and speakers:
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Thursday 29.9.2022
- Matti Heino: Complexity-informed interventions from participants’ self-quantified narratives: Innovation or a marketing ploy?
- Dr Katri Kostamo: Iteratiivinen ja monimenetelmällinen osatutkimus Let’s Move It -intervention prosessiarvioinnissa
Thursday 27.10.2022
- Dr Elina Renko: Learning narrative competence: qualitative evaluation of social work and health care professionals’ experiences of participating in a reflective writing course
- Eleonoora Hintsa: Identification and use of habit promoting techniques for physical activity maintenance
Tuesday 8.11.2022
- Dr Karoline Villinger: Dyadic behavior change in romantic couples
Monday 14.11.2022
- Dr Olga Perski: Improving the precision of behaviour change theories: Study protocol for the development and validation of a dynamic computational model of lapse risk in smokers attempting to stop (COMPLAPSE)
Tuesday 13.12.2022
- Melina Puolamäki: Improving motivational interaction styles of physical activity promotion and sports professionals: preliminary results from the feasibility study
- Dr Katri Kostamo: Experiences of advancing the use of behavioural science in public policy: an expert interview study
Spring 2022 schedule and speakers:
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Thursday 27.1.2022
- Asst Prof Keegan Knittle: Feasibility study of the In Charge Intervention
- Kaisa Saurio: Psychology’s next crisis is a measurement crisis
Thursday 17.2.2022
- Dr Olga Perski: Technology-mediated just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) to reduce harmful substance use: a systematic review
- Minttu Palsola: Using behaviour change theories to improve uptake of motivating interaction styles: Preliminary results from the MotiStyleSport pretest phase
Thursday 10.3.2022
- Matti Heino: Insights from complexity science to complement traditional behaviour change investigations
- Malin Ekholm: Systematic review of interventions to increase treatment adherence in chronic kidney disease.
Thursday 7.4.2022
- Dr Matthias Aulbach: Prejudice reduction as behavior change interventions?
- Dr Katri Kostamo: Qualitative analysis of situation-specific influences on face mask use during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Wednesday 11.5.2022
- Dr Elina Renko: Individual complex pathways of changing motivational interaction behaviours: Qualitative process evaluation with a complex systems lens
- Prof Nelli Hankonen: The role of behavioural theory in intervention development
Tuesday 14.6.2022
- Prof. Nelli Hankonen (TAU): Understanding intervention participants’ behaviour change pathways
- Asst. Prof. Keegan Knittle (JYU): Overview of the ProAct project – Developing theory-based interventions to promote physical activity in sedentary parent-child dyads
