Webinar
Session with Dr. Cristina Bicchieri, SJP Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania, on “Social Norms”.
About Dr. Cristina Bicchieri
Dr. Bicchieri has led numerous consulting, training and education efforts which lie at the theory-practice nexus, and which aim to address the underlying determinants that impact behavior change, with particular attention and reference to context and social and structural drivers. She has pioneered a nuanced theory of group behavior which establishes means for measuring individuals’ sensitivity to social norms and explores the ways in which interventions can be designed to change social norms. Dr. Bicchieri has not only been involved in the forefront of academic change in the field of social norms and behavioral ethics, but simultaneously, has also been bringing these ideas to affect large-scale social change across the world, in places such as India, Colombia, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Tanzania.
Dr. Bicchieri is a world authority on social norms who consults and trains through organizations such as UNICEF, the World Bank, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, BBC Media, CARE, DFID and many other NGOs to develop measures of social norms in the field, evaluate the social impact of policy interventions and design new ones in developing countries. The author of more than 100 articles and 7 books, most recently Norms in the Wild: How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms, she is a Knight in the Italian government and has been a fellow at Harvard, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu (Institute for Advanced Study) Berlin, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, the London School of Economics (Leverhulme Trust), and the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Jerusalem. Dr. Bicchieri has served as a consultant to UNICEF since 2008, and has advised various NGOs and other international development organizations on social norms and how to deal with them when combating negative social practices. Her work on social norms has since been adopted by UNICEF in its campaigns to eliminate practices that violate human rights. Dr. Bicchieri has trained staff at UNICEF and similar organizations on how to best implement lasting, positive change in societies where harmful practices like child marriage, gender violence and poor sanitation are commonplace. Her work reflects significant ways in which philosophical and social scientific reflection on norms, can and have been, successfully combined to great benefit, for communities and organizations alike.
Her research and practice have thus laid a solid foundation for creating purposeful social change around the globe.
About Dr. Cristina Bicchieri
Dr. Bicchieri has led numerous consulting, training and education efforts which lie at the theory-practice nexus, and which aim to address the underlying determinants that impact behavior change, with particular attention and reference to context and social and structural drivers. She has pioneered a nuanced theory of group behavior which establishes means for measuring individuals’ sensitivity to social norms and explores the ways in which interventions can be designed to change social norms. Dr. Bicchieri has not only been involved in the forefront of academic change in the field of social norms and behavioral ethics, but simultaneously, has also been bringing these ideas to affect large-scale social change across the world, in places such as India, Colombia, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Tanzania.
Dr. Bicchieri is a world authority on social norms who consults and trains through organizations such as UNICEF, the World Bank, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, BBC Media, CARE, DFID and many other NGOs to develop measures of social norms in the field, evaluate the social impact of policy interventions and design new ones in developing countries. The author of more than 100 articles and 7 books, most recently Norms in the Wild: How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms, she is a Knight in the Italian government and has been a fellow at Harvard, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu (Institute for Advanced Study) Berlin, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, the London School of Economics (Leverhulme Trust), and the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Jerusalem. Dr. Bicchieri has served as a consultant to UNICEF since 2008, and has advised various NGOs and other international development organizations on social norms and how to deal with them when combating negative social practices. Her work on social norms has since been adopted by UNICEF in its campaigns to eliminate practices that violate human rights. Dr. Bicchieri has trained staff at UNICEF and similar organizations on how to best implement lasting, positive change in societies where harmful practices like child marriage, gender violence and poor sanitation are commonplace. Her work reflects significant ways in which philosophical and social scientific reflection on norms, can and have been, successfully combined to great benefit, for communities and organizations alike.
Her research and practice have thus laid a solid foundation for creating purposeful social change around the globe.