Thinking fast and flow

Exploring the first few steps of an ultra run I am doing to raise funds for British-Ukrainian Aid I cover many topics that have zero to do with each other. From initial analysis of the PhD being done to my dislike for linguistics. Basically, I tell stories like a 5 year old with no beginning middle or end. If you want to donate go to adapting.co.uk or straight to my just giving page by searching f...

I talk about the progress with my PhD results as a hierarchy of heuristics recommended by participants seems to emerge. Let's see how much of Maslow's, Kaufman's and Tuan as humanists across management, psychology and geography can help with making sense of my data. Should place brand managers have to be responsible for both basic and higher needs

Talking as I explore the route of an ultra marathon - from the I Ching book of changes to the place attachment to Mars and some other curiosities I will never have time to write about so wanted to let them go into the ether

In this episode I talk about the feedback I got from my first conference. Amazing feedback from a great community... All the recording was done while running in the woods back "home" in Bulgaria so if the quality is not great at some point it might be me going faster so I can keep warm at - 5 degrees celsius

In this one I am walking the streets of Lyon and talking about the landscape of ideas that are close to my PhD interest as I warm up for the Doctoral Colloquium as part of the International Place Branding Conference. It is always difficult to approach the topic with interest when it has been with me for nearly 5 years now but at least there is some confidence in the need to honestpy share where I...

On the way to my first academic conference I am taking the time to gather my thoughts about the contributions I am going to be presenting

Who will nudge the nudger and why do we need someone else to boost our intuitions towards better pro-environmental decisions. I am recording this in preparation for a blog post on Behavioraleconomics.com which will break down the ethical considerations that those planning to use behaviour change interventions towards pro-environmental goals. Reviewing two panel discussions at COP 26 in Glasgow and...

I talk about how research that is supposed to generate theory or smaller than theory new concepts often goes step by step and add some rules of thumb for how to proceed while letting go of the common sense idea of the scientific hypotethico-deductive method

In this episode I try to delve back through my research experience in order to start a new series on research methodology as I have really wanted to formalise some of these skills through accreditation (chartered scientist) and certification (some courses as well as working on an attestation to an ISO standard for research)

In this walkey talkey episode I totally lose my tain of thought more than once and just keep trying to put out to the fore what I know about the difference between cognitivist and non-cognitivist theories of emotion. I totally forget I have primary data from my PhD that may be related and just get carried away in generalisms

Covering the holistic nature of experience and trying to distinguish between cognition, emotion and feelings. Have been thinking through quite a bit as I started a new research job, got accredited as a chartered scientist and did a course in the philosophy of emotions at Oxford so all of the jumbled thoughts integrated into one for this episode... Then I will start breaking them up into bits

An intro to another 3-5 episodes on a topic that will help me reflect as I prepare for submitting an abstract for my first academic journal publication. Having gathered data in over 200 places from in depth interviews I am starting to go back to the literature on perceptions and emotions to help me make sense of what I have and not to reinvent the wheel

15 interviews deep I reflect on a weekend full of lovely conversations about in-betweenness, place identity and how might I compare people's personal rules of thumb... Also why is there one rationality and multiple emotions?

I talk abou the detailed rules of thumb I get described to me by the participants in my PhD research

I talks about how we can study the decisions of those audiences of our place brands we want to attract. Was Joe Rogan biased to move to Texas before the Covid Pandemic and what is rationality anyway

I talk about wrapping up the Digital Place Branding Rules series in a very windy day. Talking about where to start from before designing - implications of design on wellbeing and how one can use some philosophy to make initial decisions of how to navigate digital design

I talk about journey mapping of your digital place brand presence using the analogy of your place's geographical map 

Evaluate the Usability of Your Digital Presence through Heuristic Evaluation using the 10 Heuristics for Good Design by Jacob Nielsen https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/?lm=usability-heuristics-applied-video-games&pt=article Also talking about the differences between intuition, emotion and heuristics, the limits of user experience research which was suggested as the basis fo...

Rule 1 Build Empathy With Your Users Also discussing Borat 2, Emotion as a type of cognitive fit between expectation and reality and a step by step process of how to build empathy with users. of your digital place brand 

Place Branding and The Climate Emergency "The cost of inaction will be significantly higher than the cost of mitigation"

Why is the climate emergency not yet a core pillar in place brand plans?

The second part of my conversation with Martin focuses on even more clearly distinguishing place promotion, place marketing and place branding

A discussion with Martin Boisen about Conceptual Clarity

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