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- 26th Sep 2017
Director of Strategy and Implementation - new senior recruitment at BIT
The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) is looking to appoint a Director of Strategy and Implementation, reporting to the Chief Executive of BIT, Dr David Halpern. The Director of Strategy and Implementation will be responsible for implementing BIT’s overall business strategy, and in particular for leading cross-cutting work and coordinating our UK…
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- 29th Sep 2017
New roles in London and New York: General Manager and Gender and Behavioural Insights Programme Manager
We’re pleased to advertise two new roles in our London and New York offices: Gender and Behavioural Insights Programme Manager, London The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) is looking for a great team member to join us as a Programme Manager in our London office. We are about to start an…
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- 9th Oct 2017
Congratulations to Richard Thaler, winner of the 2017 Nobel prize in economics
This morning it was announced that the 2017 Bank of Sweden Prize for Economics in memory of Alfred Nobel (also known as the Nobel prize in economics), has been awarded to BIT's long-time friend and colleague Richard Thaler. We are totally delighted for him, and for the field. Richard is the…
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- 14th Oct 2017
Helping more people take up free pension guidance: new results
With most people spending at least 25 years in retirement, deciding what to do with your pension pot is one of the most significant financial decisions you can make. And yet it is also one of the most complicated. Today we are publishing the results of three randomised control trials…
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- 16th Oct 2017
Helping everyone reach their potential: new education results
A successful education system is one in which everyone is helped to reach their potential. Behavioural science can help us better understand and tackle the barriers that people of all ages face, regardless of the route they choose to pursue. Today we are sharing with you two results that demonstrate…
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- 26th Oct 2017
Test+Build for Charities: a new tool to support volunteering and fundraising
It’s been three months since we launched Test+Build, our venture that helps organisations design their own interventions informed by behavioural science and then test them with a randomised controlled trial. We’re currently working with 5 organisations on issues such as tax compliance to get trials up and running. Now we’re…
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- 26th Oct 2017
Thriving at work: how to improve our mental health and productivity
Today sees the publication of the Thriving at Work report, commissioned by the Prime Minister. It was co-authored by Paul Farmer, CEO of MIND, and Lord Dennis Stevenson, businessman and entrepreneur, who has also been open about his own battles with mental health. At a celebration hosted by Dennis yesterday…
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- 30th Oct 2017
About that extra hour: how Daylight Saving Time affects our behaviour
For those of us who have ever had a bad night’s sleep, it probably won’t come as a surprise that how well rested we are affects our behaviour. In Scarcity, for example, reductions in cognitive power are put in the context of a lost night of sleep. But what about…
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- 1st Nov 2017
Running RCTs with complex interventions
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade, and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard” - JFK It is no secret that we are big fans of the use of randomised controlled trials as a means of working out whether…
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- 1st Nov 2017
Vacancy: Interim General Counsel (Maternity Cover), London
The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) is looking for an exceptional candidate to join us as the interim General Counsel in our London office. The successful applicant will be the sole in-house lawyer supporting the BIT Group of Companies worldwide. Candidates must be comfortable taking pragmatic and commercial day to day decisions…