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- 25th Sep 2024
Boost your business: Government funded HR consultancy for SMEs
We are conducting a study of small-to-medium businesses in the UK, funded by the UK government. As part of this study we’re offering SMEs the chance to receive 1-2 days of free HR consultancy provided by CIPD-accredited HR professionals.
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- 24th Sep 2024
Let’s electrify!
BIT and Rewiring America partnered to identify messages that inspire and enable climate-concerned people to take action toward electrifying. We used our online platform, Predictiv, to test messages aimed at influencing people’s self-efficacy, interest and knowledge about electrification actions.
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- 16th Sep 2024
Use a behavioral lens to tackle trust in US healthcare
BIT recently participated in an interdisciplinary Community of Practice (CoP) led by the Pima County Health Department. The goal was to increase health literacy and vaccination rates among Latine people who can become pregnant.
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- 10th Sep 2024
Can we use behavioural science to reduce the risk of nuclear weapons?
Our joint project with Chatham House aimed to understand exactly what the ‘behavioural risks’ in our nuclear weapons programmes really are - and what consequences they might pose.
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- 4th Sep 2024
A guide for reducing administrative burden in government
We’ve all paid the time tax—the exasperating costs that come with learning about, applying for, and participating in government benefits. But no one should have to deal with any undue administrative burdens, especially people seeking support they are eligible for.
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- 12th Aug 2024
Collectivism is out and individualism is in
The UK has witnessed a steep decline in the membership of its political parties over the past few decades. The days are gone where joining a political party is a common life milestone: now just 1% of the electorate are party members.
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- 8th Aug 2024
What counts as fair and open in gambling? We’ll need to ask the public to find out
When we ask people who gamble, we hear many different ideas of fairness depending on the context. Some describe certain practices as unfair: confusing terms and conditions, adverts that pressure and overwhelm and ‘trap’ people into gambling or spending more than they want to, and the practice of gambling companies suspending…
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- 6th Aug 2024
Are content controls the answer to helping people curate their online feeds?
To examine how the design of platforms might help - or hinder - people from making informed choices about the content they see, BIT and Ofcom ran two trials.
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- 15th Jul 2024
How BIT can help with missions
A new government in the UK brings a new approach and for Labour that means missions.
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- 15th Jul 2024
What are the chances? Insights on gambling advertising from an accidental experiment
Adding odds information in an easy-to-understand format (“lose £7 for every £100 bet on average”) to slot game adverts slightly increased demand and trust in a recent online experiment. An increase in demand is surprising, but might be explained by people’s aversion to ambiguity or limited understanding of odds information.