About ACCEPT Lab

What we do

ACCEPT Lab (Applied Causal and Cultural Evidence for Policy Targeting) uses causal inference to address long-standing debates and real-world problems. Rigorous causal workflows clarify what works, for whom, when, and in which context - questions that matter for science, policy, and understanding cultural diversity.

ACCEPT Lab is based in the School of Psychological Sciences at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, and is affiliated with the Centre for Applied Cross-Cultural Research (CACR).

We also maintain Places Map, an open research infrastructure for mapping places of worship and supporting cross-cultural policy research. The underlying codebase is available at github.com/go-bayes/places-of-worship.

Approach

We combine causal inference workflows with domain expertise to:

Identify and state clearly defined causal questions
Design studies that answer these questions
Clearly communicate findings

Contact

Email: joseph.bulbulia@vuw.ac.nz
School: School of Psychological Sciences
Centre affiliation: Centre for Applied Cross-Cultural Research (CACR)
Institution: Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Location: Easterfield Building, Room EA 324, Kelburn Campus
X (Twitter): @prof_joe_
Bluesky: epiclab.bsky.social

Location

Funding

The ACCEPT Lab group gratefully acknowledges support from:

Templeton Religion Trust

TRT0418: “New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study Matching Grant”
- Joseph Bulbulia (Contact PI) and Donnie Davis, Ken Rice, Chris G Sibley, Geoffrey Troughton
TRT-2022-30666: “Mapping Places of Worship: A Tool for Efficient Global Data Collection on Religious Communities”
- Joseph Bulbulia (Contact PI) and Joseph Watts
TRT-2022-30579: “A national longitudinal study of Muslim diversity and flourishing”
- Usman Afzali (Contact PI), Joseph Bulbulia (Co-PI)

Victoria University of Wellington

Templeton Religion Trust

*ACCEPT Lab is based at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

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