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- 15th Mar 2017
Job opportunity: Research Advisor
Research Advisor Permanent: 39 hours per week Salary range: £30,000 - £45,000 per annum, plus benefits Immediate start 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. This role sits within BIT's Productivity…
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- 23rd Mar 2017
Job opportunity: Operations Manager, Asia-Pacific
Permanent: 38 hours per week Location: Sydney, Australia The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) is looking for an exceptional candidate to join our Sydney Office as Operations Manager. The full job description can be downloaded here. Candidates should upload their CV and complete their application through Applied. Close of applications: 10 April…
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- 24th Mar 2017
Supportive text messaging to encourage student success
Today, the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has announced that they are funding three interventions to help improve outcomes for 16-18-year-old students who are resitting their GCSEs. We are excited that the social support intervention we’ve developed is one of them. Many of us might take for granted that someone in…
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- 24th Mar 2017
Terror in Westminster
The BIT London office is just off Parliament Square, so Wednesday's tragic events were truly on our doorstep. Thank you for the many concerned emails that we have received from colleagues across the world, though much more important are the condolences and thoughts for those hurt or killed, and for…
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- 31st Mar 2017
Inspirational students encourage university applications
Young people from lower income families, or families without a history of university attendance, are much less likely to apply to university than their peers, even when they get the grades to do so (Anders, 2012). They’re also particularly less likely to apply to selective universities - despite these universities…
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- 6th Apr 2017
Think Small to Reach Big: a new book by Owain Service & Rory Gallagher
The Behavioural Insights Team was created to help apply a more nuanced understanding of human behaviour to government policy, and to spread the understanding of behavioural science. Governments across the globe are now using behavioural insights to make better policy. But from the outset, we found that there has been…
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- 21st Apr 2017
Introducing Promptable: A BI Venture
Over the last three years, we’ve been working as part of the Adult Skills and Knowledge (ASK) research centre on a series of trials that use text messages to boost attendance and grades at further education colleges. We’ve learned a lot about how to get students to show up to…
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- 4th May 2017
Job opportunity at BIT North America
Associate Advisor/Advisor, Research Start date: immediate Full time: 40 hours per week, part-time option available Contract: permanent (At Will contract) Salary: $57,000 - $72,000 per annum, plus benefits Location: Brooklyn, New York The Behavioral Insights Team (BIT) is recruiting for a new member of our North America team to design,…
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- 17th May 2017
Work with us to create a code for online decisions and ethics
We now have endless new ways to connect, learn, and share ideas at our fingertips. Digital technology is playing an increasingly important role in our society. While this networked age is often empowering, navigating online environments is challenging. Children and teenagers are the first generation to have grown up surrounded…
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- 18th May 2017
We're hiring in London and New York
Project Coordinator, London The Behavioural Insights Team is looking for an exceptional candidate to join as a Project Coordinator to work in two of our policy teams (Productivity and Communities, Health, Employment, Equality and Revenue) based in our London office. As a Project Coordinator, you will be engaged in a number of…