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- 15th Jul 2021
Encouraging sexual orientation disclosure in recruitment
We worked with the recruitment platform Applied, which aims to remove bias from the hiring process, to understand what works to increase voluntary disclosure, particularly for sexual orientation.
- Report
- 29th Jul 2021
Greening Pensions: A Behavioural Perspective
In this report, we contribute to the emerging conversation on green pensions by highlighting the benefits of using a behavioural perspective. We outline seven ideas, grounded in behavioural science, to achieve a greener pensions system and help to avert the climate crisis.
- Report
- 4th Aug 2021
Applying behavioural insights to design better safer gambling tools
Our latest report continues BIT's extensive work on investigating whether industry-standard safer gambling tools can be improved using principles from behavioural science. As with our report earlier in 2021, our latest work again focused on deposit limits: a widely-available tool that allows people who gamble to cap the amount they…
- Report
- 18th Aug 2021
Active Online Choices: Designing to Empower Users
We worked with the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) to explore and demonstrate how to create ‘active' choices; choices where individual users are empowered to better control how they use digital products and services, and have a clear in the understanding of the consequences.
- Report
- 24th Aug 2021
Using edutainment to encourage COVID helpline calls in the presence of stigma
Continuing a collaboration started in March 2017, the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) and the Access to Information (a2i) team of the Bangladeshi government came together in mid-2020 to explore how behavioural insights could be applied and tested as part of the government’s Covid-19 pandemic response. This report summarises our findings.
- Report
- 26th Aug 2021
Applying behavioural insights to support flood resilience
Flooding the most significant natural disaster risk to UK homes, and climate change is increasing the risk of flooding even further. Homeowners can minimise the risk of flood damage by taking measures to protect their homes (also known as property flood resilience measures).
- Report
- 2nd Sep 2021
How to improve gender equality in the workplace - evidence-based actions for employers
A summary of evidence-based actions for employers to improve gender equality, part of a wider toolkit to improve gender equality, with guides on: How to set effective targets; How to establish diversity leads and diversity task forces; How to run structured interviews; How to use skill-based assessment tasks and How…
- Report
- 2nd Sep 2021
How to run structured interviews
Seven steps for using structured interviews in recruitment and promotions to improve gender equality and representation
- Report
- 2nd Sep 2021
How to use skill-based assessment tasks
Six steps for using skill-based assessment tasks in recruitment and promotion to improve gender equality and representation
- Report
- 2nd Sep 2021
How to increase transparency of progression, pay and reward
Five steps for increasing transparency to improve gender equality and representation