What motivates us towards sustainable behaviour?
Professor Geof Wood of the University of Bath will examine this in a public lecture on 20 May.
He said: “The lecture investigates our human motivations for sustainable behaviour beyond our own immediate interests.
“It discusses how we overcome the distance between self-interest and longer term collective interest.”
Professor Wood is currently a University Research Adviser, after periods as Head of the Department of Economics & International Development, and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences.
He was a member of the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) funded Well-being in Developing Countries (WeD) research programme at the University of Bath, as well as co-directing a programme on Comparative Welfare Regimes. He has advised large Non-Governmental Organisations, especially in Bangladesh and Pakistan over the last 25 years. He is currently Chair of the Board of INTRAC (International NGO Training and Research Centre) in Oxford.
He was a member of the Expert Group Panel, Economic & Social Affairs Division of the UN, for the 2007 World Social Situation Report, and advised the Socio-Economic Security group in the ILO, Geneva.
He has also advised the Social Development Division of the World Bank. He is currently a member of the Government of Bangladesh National Steering Committee on Economic Empowerment of the Poor.
Professor Wood’s lecture is part of the General University Lecture Programme.
Other lectures in the current series include:
- Galileo and the Founding of the Modern World – Dr Gary Mathlin – 3 June
- At the Court of the Great Mogul – Nicholas Fogg - 17 June
All lectures are free and open to the public, start at 5:15pm and will be held in Lecture Theatre 8 West 3.22.
Admission and parking is free in the west car park at the Claverton Campus.