We work in low and middle income countries on a range of policy challenges, from healthcare and early years education, to corruption and tax collection.
We have as much to learn from our local partners – civil servants, NGOs and academic institutions – as they do from us. Building strong partnerships cross more than twenty countries has allowed us to adapt, improve and scale many of our original tools and trials.
Latest work
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Gamification Revisited: New Experimental Findings in Retail Investing
Building on our 2022 research, which found that gamification tactics can harm investors by encouraging them to trade more frequently, BIT partnered with the Ontario Securities Commission on a follow-up…
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Jennifer Saunt
Jenny is a Senior HR Advisor at the Behavioural Insights Team. She has previous experience working in HR roles in…
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Libby Woodhouse
Libby is an Associate Advisor within the Financial Inclusion and Gambling Policy team at BIT. The majority of her work…
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Platform-level interventions to reduce the spread of misinformation & hateful content online
In the wake of the UK’s recent riots, social media platforms are under fire for perpetuating misinformation, disinformation, and hateful content. This note outlines behavioural factors that point to the…
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More than half the public think they’re good at spotting false information online - but only a third think other people are
A new survey of the public’s online awareness, carried out by BIT (the Behavioural Insight Team) finds wide variations in people’s confidence in spotting false information online.
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Understanding public support for Net Zero policies
We (The Behavioural Insights Team; BIT) were commissioned by the European Climate Foundation (ECF) and Nesta to better understand public attitudes to Net Zero policies, the factors that underpin support…
