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- 5th Jan 2017
Job opportunities in London
Research Advisor Permanent: 39 hours per week Salary range: £30,000 – £45,000 per annum, plus benefits Based in Westminster The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) is recruiting a Research Advisor, who will support the Chief Scientist to design, conduct, and evaluate randomised controlled trials (RCTs), with a particular focus on RCTs…
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- 12th Jan 2017
Expanding mental health provision: the PM’s speech
‘A broken leg gets treated in few hours. But a broken spirit will take months, and often won’t be treated at all’. It’s a haunting comparison often used by Richard Layard, and a theme picked up by the Prime Minister in her first major domestic policy intervention. The economic and…
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- 23rd Jan 2017
Boosting economic growth
One area where behavioural economics has had surprisingly little impact – rather ironically - has been economic policy. The UK’s Industrial Strategy, published today, starts to change this. Adam Smith wrote extensively of the role of sentiment. Keynes highlighted how shocks and booms are driven by ‘animal spirits’. More recent…
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- 25th Jan 2017
Join the London team
Advisor, Crime, Justice and Home Affairs Permanent: 39 hours per week Salary range: £30,000 – £45,000 per annum, plus benefits Based in Westminster The Home Affairs and Security team in London is looking for two exceptional candidates to join as Advisors, working on crime, justice and home affairs. The team works closely with the…
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- 7th Feb 2017
Using prize draws as an incentive
Businesses and academics have long known that lotteries and prize draws can be a cheap and effective way of encouraging behaviour – witness the number of surveys that offer a prize for completion. However, despite this well-worn tradition of using prize-draws, governments have traditionally focused on more blunt subsidies or…
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- 16th Feb 2017
New job opportunities at BIT
Head of Communications Permanent: 39 hours per week Salary range: c. £50,000, plus benefits Based in Westminster The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) is looking to recruit a Head of Communications to lead our communications activities across the team in the UK and globally. Based in London, you will work with…
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- 21st Feb 2017
Applied: BIT's first behavioural product
When the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) was established back in 2010, we often concluded that the solution to a problem faced by government wasn’t always a new policy or intervention. It was a tool - like a new website, app, or even physical product - that individuals or organisations could…
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- 28th Feb 2017
Job opportunity: Research Assistant
Research Assistant Permanent: 39 hours per week Salary range: £25,000 per annum, plus benefits Based in Westminster The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) is looking for an exceptional candidate to join the Research and Evaluation and Skills teams as a Research Assistant. This role will be dedicated to supporting a randomised controlled…
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- 8th Mar 2017
Behavioural insights to boost apprenticeships
What do National Apprenticeship Week, National British Sandwich Week, and National Bed Month all have in common? Behavioural science has an answer. These are all attempts to raise the salience of their particular cause, encouraging awareness and timely decision-making, whether it’s to hire an apprentice or eat a British sandwich.…
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- 10th Mar 2017
BI Ventures is recruiting a Lab Manager
Fixed-term up to 12 months: 39 hours per week Salary range: c. £25,000 per annum, plus benefits Salary is negotiable dependent on experience Based in Westminster The BI Ventures team is looking for an exceptional candidate to join them as a Lab Manager for Predictiv, BIT's online experimentation platform. The…