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- 8th Apr 2014
BIT and BIS launch The Behavioural Insights Research Centre for English and Maths
We are delighted to announce that the Behavioural Insights Team and the Department for Business Innovation and Skills are setting up a new research centre. The Centre will develop and test interventions informed by behavioural science that can help improve adult literacy and numeracy and be scaled up by UK…
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- 9th Apr 2014
We are recruiting for the Behavioural Insights Research Centre for English and Maths (BIRCEM)
We are now recruiting Senior Advisors for the Behavioural Insights Research Centre for English and Maths (BIRCEM). We are looking for exceptional candidates with relevant academic expertise and a proven track record of delivering research projects (particularly Randomised Controlled Trials) involving multiple stakeholders. We are especially keen to receive applications…
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- 9th Apr 2014
How many police officers are in France?
Last week, we ran a small randomised trial at one of our presentations, which we delivered to a small group of civil servants. Included in the presentation were a series of games to demonstrate some well documented behavioural science effects. The first of these games was a straightforward demonstration of…
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- 10th Apr 2014
Behavioural Insights Team publishes EAST – a new Framework for applying behavioural insights
The Behavioural Insights Team has published a new framework for applying behavioural insights to policy. It’s called EAST: four simple ways to apply behavioural insights.EAST is an acronym which stands for ‘Easy’, ‘Attractive’, ‘Social’ and ‘Timely’. EAST draws on decades of academic literature and the experiences of the team in…
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- 14th Apr 2014
Behavioural Exchange 2014
In June 2014 our CEO, Dr David Halpern, will be heading to Sydney to speak at Behavioural Exchange 2014, the world’s first public policy behavioural insights conference. Since November 2012, Dr Rory Gallagher - our Managing Advisor & Director of International Programmes - has been based in Sydney, working with…
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- 15th May 2014
Behavioural Insights Team charity work wins award
The Behavioural Insights Team project on legacy giving, reported in our report "Applying Behavioural Insights to Charitable Giving", has won a Third Sector Business Charity Award for Charity Partnerships. As part of our collaboration with Remember a Charity, Co-Operative Legal Services and the University of Bristol, customers of CLS were…
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- 29th May 2014
BIT first trial in Latin America goes live!
As part of a new partnership with the World Bank, we launched our first trial in Latin America this week.Working closely with the Guatemalan tax authority - Superintendencia Administracion Tributaria (SAT) - our Head of International Development, Simon Ruda, and Assistant Advisor Stewart Kettle spent time in Guatemala setting up…
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- 3rd Jun 2014
Creating Oppositions in Academia and Policy
Every now and again an article appears in the UK press that we think needs a bit of clarification. One such article appeared in the Observer over the weekend: link.Creating oppositions between academics and organisations is a nice journalistic device – and of course, a well-established pattern in academic journals…
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- 9th Jun 2014
BX2014 wrap up
Behavioural approaches are really about "restoring common sense to economics". These were the provocative words of Richard Thaler – Professor Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and co-author of Nudge – while speaking via video link at BX2014, the world’s first public policy…
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- 10th Jun 2014
Behavioural Insights and the World Cup: penalty shoot-outs
In the build up to the World Cup, a host of experts in different fields are offering their views on the best way to succeed in a penalty shoot-out. Here, we review the evidence which we hope will help Steven Gerrard’s team to progress in the tournament. In summary:Penalty kicks…