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- 1st Sep 2015
Nudging for good - David Halpern and Owain Service
As the world leading behavioural scientists gather in London to share new and remarkable results, a new book - Inside the Nudge Unit – urges we ‘nudge for good’, and all keep an eye on who nudges the nudgers. This week, the world’s leading behavioural experts are gathering in the…
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- 9th Sep 2015
We're hiring!
The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) is looking to recruit a Ventures Start-up Manager to help shape and manage the development of a suite of commercial products that apply world class behavioural science to achieve large-scale social impact. As well as working across a range of ideas in the pipeline the…
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- 28th Sep 2015
Using a lottery to incentivise voter registration
A lottery made people register faster, saving the local authority money, but did not change the overall rates of voter registration
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- 16th Oct 2015
World Statistics Day
It’s ‘World Statistics Day’ on October 20th! OK, it’s not quite as exciting as Christmas, but it does merit a moment of reflection - at least to encourage a next generation to marvel and pursue the wonder of statistics. As a young lecturer at Cambridge, my then Faculty made the…
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- 22nd Oct 2015
Reducing missed appointments
One in ten hospital outpatient appointments is missed – people don’t turn up, and don’t cancel or rearrange in advance. That’s 5.5 million appointments every year in England alone. Missed appointments lead to people not getting the care they need, when they need it. They also lead to costs to…
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- 27th Oct 2015
Victoria’s Citizens’ Jury on Obesity
Wow! I'm writing this heading back from Australia, from the citizens’ jury VicHealth have just supported on obesity. It was a very powerful, and moving, process. Having seen the jury in action, it is hard to imagine a future of democracy – and the application of behavioural science to policy –…
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- 4th Nov 2015
We're hiring!
The Behavioural Insights Team is looking for an exceptional candidate to join as a Senior Advisor leading work on Crime, Justice and Home Affairs. You will lead a range of projects across the Home Affairs portfolio of work looking at ways in which behavioural insights can be applied to policy problems. For more…
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- 10th Nov 2015
Automatic Enrolment and Pensions: a behavioural success story
Last week, the National Audit Office (the Government’s financial watchdog) published a report on a major government programme. If its subject had been a programme with a big overspend or a lengthy delay, it might have got a lot of attention. But this report got next to no pick up in the…
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- 12th Nov 2015
Social trust is one of the most important measures that most people have never heard of – and it’s moving
Do you think most people can be trusted? This is a question first asked in the 1950s, and from the early 1980s incorporated into the World Values Surveys. It has since proven to be one of the most interesting and important indicators of the strength and quality of societies and…
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- 16th Nov 2015
We're hiring!
Senior Advisors, Research and Evaluation – Two roles Permanent: 39 hours per week Salary range: £40,000 – £60,000 per annum, plus benefits Based in Central London The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) is looking for two exceptional candidates to join us leading on research or evaluation work as Senior Advisors. In this role…