Nikos is interested in personal and contextual factors that promote motivation for sustained behaviour change. Areas of particular interest are health promotion in different community and clinical settings, self-regulation of life goals, and behaviours that support the climate change agenda. He has worked at various universities in the UK and Australia; more recently he moved to Denmark where he is the Co-Director of the Danish Centre for Motivation and Behaviour Science (DRIVEN).
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO GET OUT OF ARCADIA?
I want to get experience from collaborating with biologists to support the climate change agenda. The topic of nature-based solutions is new to me and I’m curious to learn more about its potential applications and challenges in implementation.
WHY IS ARCADIA AN INTERESTING PROJECT TO BE A PART OF?
Achieving climate neutrality and resilience by 2050 requires that we fully understand the range of attitudes (e.g., low awareness of benefits, perceptions of risks) and motivational factors (e.g., social norms) related to nature-based solutions. A good understanding of such factors will lead to the development of more comprehensive, and potentially more effective, behaviour change strategies that integrate individual, social, cultural, and economic perspectives, and that are tailored to different groups of individuals and regions. Further, the development of a blueprint for behaviour change interventions will empower local stakeholders to tailor existing or develop new initiatives using a “behavioural diagnosis” approach that is systematic and multi-level. This project is very important to me because it helps me to apply knowledge from behavioural science to address a large and pressing societal challenge.
