2006 EHBE Conference
This meeting was the first of what we hope will become an annual event. The aim was to gather a number of UK and European researchers working within the behavioural sciences using an evolutionary framework. Although there is an annual meeting each summer of the Human Behaviour and Evolution Society (HBES) this is often in the USA and costly; many researchers from the UK, and Europe more widely, are unable to attend as a consequence. Thus, the EHBE 2006 meeting was designed to foster research collaboration on this side of the Atlantic, in a manner which would complement the summer meeting of HBES. HBES were aware and supportive of our activities.
EHN2006 was held in the CPNSS, in T206. This was kindly loaned to us by Stefan Hartmann, the Director of the Centre, and we are most grateful for his support. Forty people attended, including the speakers. We wished to keep numbers low in order to foster conversation and collaboration, as we felt this would help to seed corn future meetings. There were seven papers on each day covering a wide variety of topics. All of the papers we circulated a month before the meeting in order to ensure detailed discussion after each presentation. Discussion was also fostered through long coffee and lunch breaks held in the Centre.
On the second day of the meeting, during the lunch break, a number of delegates met and decided to take the project forward. A working party was formed and is currently organising the second meeting for February 2007, also to be held at the LSE.
EHBE 2006 was self-sustaining. We charged £25 (£10 for postgraduates) for the whole meeting including lunches and coffees, as well as a wine reception. We made a slight profit of £158.19, which will be put toward the next meeting.
Organising committee
- Tom Dickins
- Helena Cronin
- Oliver Curry
- Richard Webb
- Dorota Rejman
- Iwona Rejman