Andrius Kazukauskas, researcher in economics at Södertörn University, will spend his time at CASBS to do research that asks why behavioral interventions can be effective in some settings but not others, focusing on how cultural and personal values shape prosocial electricity use behavior during system-critical periods.

– The work builds directly on my ongoing project on culturally adapted energy-conservation interventions in the Baltic Sea region which is funded by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, says Andrius Kazukauskas.

– I will study why the same behavioral messages can motivate prosocial behaviors in some communities but not others. Specifically, I will examine how cultural values and value priorities shape people’s responses to prosocial appeals to conserve electricity during grid-critical periods. This is a continuation and deepening of my Baltic Sea region project that I carry out together with Jesper Alvarsson-Hjort and Mall Leinsalu, says Andrius Kazukauskas.

RJ Advanced Studies Programme and CASBS

With the RJ Advanced Studies Programme, RJ aims to strengthen the internationalisation of Swedish research in the humanities and social sciences by offering grants for residential fellowships at four institutes for advanced study.

The time at the institutes gives fellows the opportunity to concentrate on their own research, free from the teaching and administrative obligations at the home institution. They participate in the institutes’ interdisciplinary environments and in activities organised outside their specific fields of study. The researchers also receive financial support to establish lasting networks and other collaborations that benefit the Swedish research community following their stay at the institute.

– CASBS runs a residential fellowship program that brings together scholars across a wide range of social, behavioral, and adjacent disciplines, making it an especially good match for my interdisciplinary, mechanism-focused research, and thereby increasing the likelihood of high-quality feedback on my research topic, says Andrius Kazukauskas.

– I expect focused time to sharpen the project’s core explanation of when and why values-aligned messages work. I also expect to build collaborations that will help me develop new experiments and projects for future research, says Andrius Kazukauskas.

Read an earlier published interview with Andrius Kazukauskas about his ongoing research project “Culturally adapted behavioral interventions for promoting residential energy conservation in the Baltic Sea region” (in Swedish).

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