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Press releases
- Press release
- 9th Sep 2024
Study reveals $100 billion ‘evidence gap’ in public policy
A new report reveals minimal government investment in public policy evidence, with R&D spending in the UK, Canada, Australia, and the US at under 0.1% of total expenditure in key areas like education, social protection, and public order.
- Press release
- 1st Aug 2024
Be In A Net: Behavioural Insights to improve the use of Insecticide-treated Malaria nets in Nigeria and Uganda
Nearly every minute, a child under five dies from malaria. Despite significant progress in reducing the disease in the last two decades, malaria continues to cause over 200 million infections and over 600,000 deaths each year. The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) is a world leader in behavioural science, having completed…
- Press release
- 18th Jun 2024
Update from BIT and David Halpern
David Halpern, the Founding Director and President of the Behavioural Insights Team will be moving on from his role and the team from July 31st 2024.
- Press release
- 21st May 2024
BIT and Ofcom trial methods to boost engagement with content controls on social media sites
BIT and Ofcom’s Behavioural Insight specialists ran two online trials to test different ways of encouraging people to use content controls.
- Press release
- 1st May 2024
BIT and HelpMum Africa selected for the new 8.5M VaxSocial grant to develop behavioural social media interventions to build vaccine confidence
The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) and HelpMum Africa have been awarded a major significant grant to explore the role of behavioural change interventions in vaccine uptake in Nigeria, India and Indonesia.
- Press release
- 18th Mar 2024
UK GDP held back by hidden information on price and quality
A lack of available information that could help consumers and businesses compare quality and price when buying goods or services is costing the UK economy around £14 billion in revenue, new research from the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) finds.
- Press release
- 18th Oct 2023
Groundbreaking research on WhatsApp chatbot to reduce intimate partner violence published in PLOS
Patterns of violence can start at an impressionable age, when teenagers and women start their first serious relationships and learn what is “normal”—or even desirable—in a partner. There is a strong connection between positive power equity beliefs and lower IPV prevalence.
- Press release
- 20th Sep 2023
Research shows employees want and need new ways to save
A joint research project between PayCaptain, the London-based payroll service provider, and the Behavioural Insights Team has uncovered new findings on employees’ barriers to saving. With economic pressures on employees continuing to increase and one million households expected to have run out of savings by the end of 2023, the…
- Press release
- 23rd Mar 2023
From Nudge to...where now?
Major new work taking on board the challenges facing behavioral science and responding with 10 proposals to fulfill its potential for improving lives and societies
- Press release
- 25th Jan 2023
Major new research from BIT shows UK public very supportive of steps and policies necessary to reach Net Zero
People are much more ready and willing to make sustainable changes than the current political narrative suggests