Liam Delaney
@liamdelaney2025.bsky.social
Head of LSE Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science. Personal webpage with reading lists etc., here https://economicspsychologypolicy.blogspot.com/
@dilipsoman.bsky.social was thinking about your book at this stage in the Kerry hills yesterday!! I can attest that the last mile can be challenging. Though the last bit of the last mile when you can see the line is good fun!!
September 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
@dilipsoman.bsky.social was thinking about your book at this stage in the Kerry hills yesterday!! I can attest that the last mile can be challenging. Though the last bit of the last mile when you can see the line is good fun!!
Been 20 years or so in the making in Ireland but national pension auto-enrolment now at this stage. A blog-post from a few years back outlining the issues and background research. economicspsychologypolicy.blogspot.com/2024/04/pens...
July 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Been 20 years or so in the making in Ireland but national pension auto-enrolment now at this stage. A blog-post from a few years back outlining the issues and background research. economicspsychologypolicy.blogspot.com/2024/04/pens...
Clontarf half-marathon yesterday. Lot of lovely coastal runs in Ireland. Of the signs being held up "Therapy was another option" a bit close to the bone near the end but definitely made me laugh.
July 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Clontarf half-marathon yesterday. Lot of lovely coastal runs in Ireland. Of the signs being held up "Therapy was another option" a bit close to the bone near the end but definitely made me laugh.
Speaking today at London Behavioural and Experimental Economics workshop organised by Arnaud Chevalier & Abu Siddique beside my favorite imposing dystopian London tower sites.google.com/view/lbeewor... Speaking on "Valuing the past: behavioural & philosophical perspectives".
July 3, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Speaking today at London Behavioural and Experimental Economics workshop organised by Arnaud Chevalier & Abu Siddique beside my favorite imposing dystopian London tower sites.google.com/view/lbeewor... Speaking on "Valuing the past: behavioural & philosophical perspectives".
Images from a recent talk. Thanks to my pal offline for pointing out that I look like I am delivering a passionate monologue about racing pigeons.
July 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Images from a recent talk. Thanks to my pal offline for pointing out that I look like I am delivering a passionate monologue about racing pigeons.
Spent some time last week in Estonia. Gave Kahneman lecture at the IAREP conference (superbly organised by team at Tartu). Details of my talk here (recording to follow) economicspsychologypolicy.blogspot.com/2024/12/iare... Was great to meet public servants across many areas at sessions in Tallinn.
June 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Spent some time last week in Estonia. Gave Kahneman lecture at the IAREP conference (superbly organised by team at Tartu). Details of my talk here (recording to follow) economicspsychologypolicy.blogspot.com/2024/12/iare... Was great to meet public servants across many areas at sessions in Tallinn.
Managed to do an early morning run in Tallinn this morning. Giving a talk on behavioural science & public admin to Estonian civil servants ahead of IAREP conference in Tartu. Covering models, ethics, institutional forms, case studies in admin burden, climate change, regulatory reform.
June 16, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Managed to do an early morning run in Tallinn this morning. Giving a talk on behavioural science & public admin to Estonian civil servants ahead of IAREP conference in Tartu. Covering models, ethics, institutional forms, case studies in admin burden, climate change, regulatory reform.
Attending the third LSE/Warwick Behavioural Science PhD and early career network event sites.google.com/view/wbslse2... Hopefully becoming a sustainable institution!
May 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Attending the third LSE/Warwick Behavioural Science PhD and early career network event sites.google.com/view/wbslse2... Hopefully becoming a sustainable institution!
Two views of LSE in the lovely weather this week.
May 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Two views of LSE in the lovely weather this week.
Up on the roof of the centre building in LSE with some @lsepbs.bsky.social colleagues and Julian Robinson the head of estates. Got to hear a bit about the history of the buildings here & the transformation in last decade or so. Place was looking great in this weather.
May 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Up on the roof of the centre building in LSE with some @lsepbs.bsky.social colleagues and Julian Robinson the head of estates. Got to hear a bit about the history of the buildings here & the transformation in last decade or so. Place was looking great in this weather.
Getting into the very serious end of the prep for the marathon in Connemara next week.
April 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Getting into the very serious end of the prep for the marathon in Connemara next week.
Website of our FORGOOD behavioural science initiative now online lse-forgood.webflow.io/about Has been a pleasure to develop this with colleagues here & a really strong and engaged advisory board.
April 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Website of our FORGOOD behavioural science initiative now online lse-forgood.webflow.io/about Has been a pleasure to develop this with colleagues here & a really strong and engaged advisory board.
Reading Jeremy Farrar's book Spike about the start of covid. The current tensions between US/ China and much of the rest of the world, the undermining of WHO and trust in some basic health comms is a global catastrophe waiting to happen.
April 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Reading Jeremy Farrar's book Spike about the start of covid. The current tensions between US/ China and much of the rest of the world, the undermining of WHO and trust in some basic health comms is a global catastrophe waiting to happen.
The three ages of Yeats in @gatetheatredublin.bsky.social last night was great. Three readers on stage together reading poems & representing perspectives he had written at three different phases of his life.
February 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
The three ages of Yeats in @gatetheatredublin.bsky.social last night was great. Three readers on stage together reading poems & representing perspectives he had written at three different phases of his life.
That NYT piece on the Irish guards auctioning seized designer watches and handbags is good fun. I'd say the Rolex brand people must have been put on alert today. "In the 80s and 90s I don't think I ever saw bling on criminals..the most you'd see is a fast car but there were never fancy haircuts.."
January 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
That NYT piece on the Irish guards auctioning seized designer watches and handbags is good fun. I'd say the Rolex brand people must have been put on alert today. "In the 80s and 90s I don't think I ever saw bling on criminals..the most you'd see is a fast car but there were never fancy haircuts.."
Was great to welcome James Elfer back to @lsepbs.bsky.social the other day for a session with students and alumni. Morethannow is a really interesting company www.morethannow.co.uk
January 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Was great to welcome James Elfer back to @lsepbs.bsky.social the other day for a session with students and alumni. Morethannow is a really interesting company www.morethannow.co.uk
Have spent a lot of time in London connecting students & policy through various mechanisms including simulations & our wider world seminar. Today with Mary MacLennan from UN Secgen office. Includes UG, PG, & Exec students & some alumni on hybrid. A lot of interesting things at these intersections.
January 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Have spent a lot of time in London connecting students & policy through various mechanisms including simulations & our wider world seminar. Today with Mary MacLennan from UN Secgen office. Includes UG, PG, & Exec students & some alumni on hybrid. A lot of interesting things at these intersections.
~500 alumni now of our Exec Msc Behavioural Science @lsepbs.bsky.social Mid-career execs who study with us for 18 months in condensed fly-in sessions along with extended dissertation session. Led by @mmglz.bsky.social it is a constant source of ideas including papers, new firms, policy innovation.
January 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
~500 alumni now of our Exec Msc Behavioural Science @lsepbs.bsky.social Mid-career execs who study with us for 18 months in condensed fly-in sessions along with extended dissertation session. Led by @mmglz.bsky.social it is a constant source of ideas including papers, new firms, policy innovation.
Some London photos from previous site..The restaurant beside LSE named after me and Senate House that has a fairly innocuous administrative use now but really should be a HQ for a shadowy influence network.
January 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Some London photos from previous site..The restaurant beside LSE named after me and Senate House that has a fairly innocuous administrative use now but really should be a HQ for a shadowy influence network.
Great game there on BBC. Gary Lineker looking a bit like Jim off Brassic
January 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Great game there on BBC. Gary Lineker looking a bit like Jim off Brassic
Good moment with @casssunstein.bsky.social & our @lsepbs.bsky.social MSc in Behavioural Science class at end of year on the wings of his public lecture. On range of topics in particular the limits of AI in predicting complex inter-dependent human action.
January 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Good moment with @casssunstein.bsky.social & our @lsepbs.bsky.social MSc in Behavioural Science class at end of year on the wings of his public lecture. On range of topics in particular the limits of AI in predicting complex inter-dependent human action.
George Ainslie who developed the concept of hyperbolic discounting on Sigmund Freud. Nice to have time to think about some of the wild connections at the intersection of psychoanalysis, behaviourism, & behavioural economics. We create silos for reasons but some of the best ideas emerge in the wild.
December 25, 2024 at 3:30 PM
George Ainslie who developed the concept of hyperbolic discounting on Sigmund Freud. Nice to have time to think about some of the wild connections at the intersection of psychoanalysis, behaviourism, & behavioural economics. We create silos for reasons but some of the best ideas emerge in the wild.
George Katona 1954 on economic psychology "the understanding & prediction of economic fluctuations,..to combat the recurrence of periodic depressions and inflations...also contribute toward the attainment of the ultimate goal of the behavioral sciences-the development of a theory of social action".
December 24, 2024 at 10:34 PM
George Katona 1954 on economic psychology "the understanding & prediction of economic fluctuations,..to combat the recurrence of periodic depressions and inflations...also contribute toward the attainment of the ultimate goal of the behavioral sciences-the development of a theory of social action".
@lklades.bsky.social on who suffers from sludge?
December 11, 2024 at 4:30 PM
@lklades.bsky.social on who suffers from sludge?
Amy Hume on behavioral audits of online safety
December 11, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Amy Hume on behavioral audits of online safety