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- 2nd Dec 2015
Can psychology help reduce the gap between the rich and poor kids?
Robert Putnam, Harvard Professor and author of Bowling Alone and several other important works, came in to BIT last week to discuss his new book - Our Kids. His latest work reflects on the growing gulf between the lives and expectancies of the rich and poor youth in today’s America.…
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- 9th Dec 2015
We're hiring graduates!
Graduate Opportunities – Associate Advisor £25,000 p.a. + benefits Full time, permanent Central London Want to make society a better place? We are the Behavioural Insights Team, a unique organisation. We started life in 2010 inside No.10 Downing Street as the world’s first government institution dedicated to the application of behavioural sciences.…
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- 14th Dec 2015
Upcoming opportunities in our North America team
The Behavioural Insights Team North America is looking for exceptional candidates to join our New York office. There are opportunities at various levels coming up. Please click here to find out more. Closing date for expressions of interest is 9am EST, January 25th, 2016. Start dates: from June 2016 Location: Brooklyn, NY Full time and part…
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- 22nd Dec 2015
Happy holidays to our stateside cousins - Inside the Nudge Unit is available in the USA!
We’ve known for some time that across countries labour productivity per hour is negatively correlated with hours worked. Just to check, we ran a seasonally festive correlation between labour productivity and average days of holiday taken by country, which also showed a modest negative correlation (about -0.12 in the data we…
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- 7th Jan 2016
Innovation in Policing: a guest blog from Chief Superintendent Alex Murray
Today we have a guest blog from Chief Superintendent Alex Murray of West Midlands Police – the second largest force in England and Wales – with whom we work closely on a range of criminal justice issues. Alex is Commander of Solihull Local Policing Unit. He is also the founder…
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- 12th Jan 2016
The Behavioural Insights Team is hiring in Australia!
The Behavioural Insights Team is looking for exceptional candidates to join us in our Sydney office as we expand and grow in 2016. We have opportunities at two levels (1 x Advisor and 2 x Associate Advisor). What we are looking for We are looking for talented individuals who have…
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- 15th Jan 2016
Does social action help develop the skills young people need to succeed in adult life?
Today sees the publication of BIT's evaluation of the Cabinet Office's Youth Social Action Fund, an interim version of which was published last year. Our report provides compelling and robust evidence that young people who take part in social action initiatives, such as volunteering, develop some of the most critical…
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- 22nd Jan 2016
Applying behavioural insights to improve life chances
A quiet moment in Davos, among the world’s elites, is a strange place to reflect on those whose accidents of birth make it hard to get to a place like this, even from a relatively affluent country like Britain. I’m here as Chair of the WEF group on behaviour, and…
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- 4th Feb 2016
Stories from the States
As part of BIT North America’s work with the Bloomberg Philanthropies What Works Cities initiative, we have launched ten randomized control trials in six cities from Kentucky to California in the last six months. While we wait for the results, we thought we’d share three stories that shed some light…
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- 10th Feb 2016
We're recruiting in London
Advisor: Home Affairs and International Programmes Permanent: 39 hours per week (part-time applications welcome) Salary range: £30,000 – £45,000 per annum, plus benefits Based in Central London The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) is looking for an exceptional candidate to join as an Advisor working across the Home Affairs and International…