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- 29th Jul 2021
Greening pensions: A behavioural perspective
In our latest report, we outline seven ideas, grounded in behavioural science, to achieve a greener pensions system and help to avert the climate crisis. Downstream, we aim to support individual pension-holders to take up greener pension options, and upstream, we address the pensions market itself to improve the availability…
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- 28th Jul 2021
What if a behavioural scientist redesigned climate negotiations?
In this blog post, we outline a few creative ways behavioural insights could be applied to COP26 in Glasgow – from lead-up, to opening day, to delivery of the conference itself. This is a tongue-in-cheek manifesto of how the conference would look if overzealous behavioural scientists helped organise it.
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- 23rd Jul 2021
Reframing pension options to encourage greener choices
We conducted an online experiment to explore how different ‘nudges’ could encourage more people to take-up green pension funds.
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- 22nd Jul 2021
Dealing new data: what bank transactions can tell us about gambling behaviour
The Behavioural Insights Team has launched two new reports on what bank transaction data can tell us about gambling behaviour, with the aim of gaining new insights on tackling gambling harm. Our findings examine how gambling fits within peoples’ wider financial lives, and sheds new light on the role that…
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- 15th Jul 2021
Improving equality, diversity and inclusion starts with good data
Data is critical for progressing equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) goals. Transparency and accountability are both foundational for improving EDI and these cannot be achieved without data regarding both employee characteristics and workplace outcomes. While gender pay gap reporting has been shown to reduce gender inequality, many organisations in the…
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- 14th Jul 2021
"What would happen if your website was attacked?"
It's hard for businesses — particularly SMEs — to know when and how to patch their software. In collaboration with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), we ran two trials to help tackle this problem.…
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- 13th Jul 2021
A game of two halves: how football can bring us together or divide us and what we can do about it
Over the last month much of Europe has been caught in a football obsession. As football drew to a crescendo over the weekend (a disappointing one for England fans, ecstatic for followers of Italy), we saw how football can bring us together and divide us. As policy-makers - and fans…
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- 6th Jul 2021
COVID Reset – Environmental Slingshot or Setback?
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- 23rd Jun 2021
The future of fashion is circular but can behavioural science help?
With shops now open, many people may be looking to revamp their wardrobe to be less couch-chic and more social-gathering appropriate. But how can we do this sustainably? We consider some evidence of the circular future of fashion and whether insights from behavioural science can help.
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- 18th Jun 2021
Simply telling men that their peers support parental leave and flexible working, increases their intention to share care
According to recent research, 76% of mothers and 73% of fathers would like to work flexibly to spend more time with children - a remarkably similar proportion. Yet mothers are much more likely to work part-time than fathers. So if dads want to work flexibly, what’s stopping them? One barrier…