All-island Obesity Action Forum: Nudge nudge

Date: Tuesday 12 June, 2018

Time: 10.00am – 1.30pm

Venue: The Clayton Hotel, 22-26 Ormeau Avenue, Belfast, BT2 8HS.

Event overview

The event focused on ‘‘nudging’’ as a behaviour change concept to encourage positive behaviours in relation to health and wellbeing and to promote a healthy weight. Presentations explored the nudge concept and include practical examples covering food and physical activity.

Speakers included Professor Theresa Marteau from the University of Cambridge and Professor Liam Delaney form University College Dublin. Professor Marteau discussed how redesigning our environments, sometimes known as nudging shows promise for changing behaviour across populations to tackle obesity. Over 120 delegates registered to attend the event.

Programme

Time	Programme	Speaker
9.00am – 10.00am	Registration with tea and coffee
10.00am – 10.10am	Welcome
10.10am – 11.30am	Session 1
10.10am – 10.50am	Changing our environments to change our behaviour: Learning from what doesn’t work	Prof Theresa Marteau University of Cambridge
10.50am – 11.30am	Behavioural Change: Nudging and Shoving (PDF, 1MB)	Prof Liam Delaney University College Dublin
11.30am – 11.50am	Break
11.50am – 1.00pm	Session 2
11.50am – 12.10pm	Taking Nudge Digital with Food Choice at Work (PDF, 3MB)	Dr Fiona Geaney Food Choice at Work
12.10pm – 12.30pm	Take the Stairs (PDF, 2.5MB)	Dr Damien Bennett Public Health Agency
12.30pm – 12.55pm	Questions and discussion
12.55pm – 1.00pm	Closing remarks
1.00pm – 1.30pm	Lunch and networking

Who should attend?

This event will be of interest to those working in voluntary community sector, academia, medical and clinical areas, industry and government departments

There are a limited number of places available for students. If you are interested in attending, please contact: obesityforum@safefood.eu.

Registration

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For more information about this event:

Email: events@safefood.eu

Call: (NI) 0800 085 1683, (ROI) 1850 40 4567