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- 21st Feb 2017
Applied: BIT's first behavioural product
When the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) was established back in 2010, we often concluded that the solution to a problem faced by government wasn’t always a new policy or intervention. It was a tool - like a new website, app, or even physical product - that individuals or organisations could…
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- 28th Feb 2017
Job opportunity: Research Assistant
Research Assistant Permanent: 39 hours per week Salary range: £25,000 per annum, plus benefits Based in Westminster The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) is looking for an exceptional candidate to join the Research and Evaluation and Skills teams as a Research Assistant. This role will be dedicated to supporting a randomised controlled…
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- 10th Mar 2017
BI Ventures is recruiting a Lab Manager
Fixed-term up to 12 months: 39 hours per week Salary range: c. £25,000 per annum, plus benefits Salary is negotiable dependent on experience Based in Westminster The BI Ventures team is looking for an exceptional candidate to join them as a Lab Manager for Predictiv, BIT's online experimentation platform. The…
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- 24th Mar 2017
Terror in Westminster
The BIT London office is just off Parliament Square, so Wednesday's tragic events were truly on our doorstep. Thank you for the many concerned emails that we have received from colleagues across the world, though much more important are the condolences and thoughts for those hurt or killed, and for…
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- 31st Mar 2017
Inspirational students encourage university applications
Young people from lower income families, or families without a history of university attendance, are much less likely to apply to university than their peers, even when they get the grades to do so (Anders, 2012). They’re also particularly less likely to apply to selective universities - despite these universities…
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- 6th Apr 2017
Think Small to Reach Big: a new book by Owain Service & Rory Gallagher
The Behavioural Insights Team was created to help apply a more nuanced understanding of human behaviour to government policy, and to spread the understanding of behavioural science. Governments across the globe are now using behavioural insights to make better policy. But from the outset, we found that there has been…
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- 31st May 2017
Work with us in London
Independent Chairperson and Non-Executive Director Three-year appointment Up to £5,000 per annum Based in Westminster The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) is looking to recruit an Independent Chairperson and Non-Executive Director to the corporate trustee of BIT’s Employee Benefit Trust (EBT). The Chairperson will work alongside our two employee representative trustee Directors (one…
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- 14th Jun 2017
Lifting the lid on a live project: Bringing behavioural insights into NHS procurement
In his February 2016 independent report, Lord Carter announced the creation of a ‘model hospital’. The purpose of this imaginary hospital is to show ‘what good looks like’ by providing a set of metrics, best practice checklists and benchmarks for other hospitals to build into their procurement processes. This is…
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- 11th Jul 2017
Be the Business: boosting productivity in the UK
This morning saw the launch of ‘Be the Business’, the new movement from the UK’s Productivity Leadership Group (PLG). The breakfast event was glitzy and polished, hosted in the cool London base of Channel 4, rather than a standard conference venue. An interesting element is that it is led by…
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- 15th Aug 2017
Keeping projects on track: Overcoming cognitive biases in project planning and delivery
Much of our work focuses on how policymakers can use a more sophisticated understanding of behaviour to make better policy, and this includes thinking about the cognitive biases that affect all of us. However these same psychological quirks also affect policymakers in their own work – so how can we…