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- Academic publication
- 12th May 2016
Does the heart rule the head? Economic and emotional incentives for university attendance
Young people from low income families and in rural areas have been shown to be less likely to attend university than their wealthier counterparts, even with the same grades.
- Blog
- 16th Oct 2018
Building stronger, more cohesive societies using behavioural insights: new report
In cohesive societies people trust each other, feel part of a shared identity and are able to work together to create a common good. In turn, these societies tend to be happier, richer and more peaceful. However, multicultural societies face particular challenges in building social cohesion, as people tend to…
- Blog
- 22nd May 2019
How to build cohesive societies
Launch of two new projects to translate academic research into real change
- Blog
- 27th Jan 2020
Remembering the Holocaust
"Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
- Blog
- 7th May 2020
Britain Connects: take part in our project to bring Britain together
As people across the country step outside of their homes this evening to clap for carers, we can see how the coronavirus crisis has created shared experience without precedent for all of us. We are working with the Mirror, the Daily Express and local newspapers in Britain on a unique…
- Blog
- 13th Jul 2021
A Game of Two Halves: How Football Can Bring us Together or Divide us, and What We Can do About it
Over the last month much of Europe has been caught in a football obsession. As football drew to a crescendo over the weekend (a disappointing one for England fans, ecstatic for followers of Italy), we saw how football can bring us together and divide us. As policy-makers - and fans…
- Blog
- 7th Sep 2021
Britain Connects: reducing political polarisation and fostering dialogue during national lockdown
When political views become political identities, we see people who agree with us in a positive light - intelligent, selfless and open minded, and people who disagree with us as the opposite.
- Blog
- 10th Sep 2021
British and European Values - are they one and the same?
There is a mismatch between the way we see ourselves and the way we see others
- Report
- 24th Jan 2022
Mass media, behaviour change & peacebuilding
Up to 100,000 people are killed each year as a result of violent conflict. But this is only one part of the human cost. Impact on families and communities can be felt decades later. Millions of individual decisions underpin these tragic impacts: people decide either to stoke hatred or to…
- Blog
- 25th Jan 2022
Can mass media reduce violent conflict?
Violent conflict is one of the most pressing challenges facing humanity. Armed violence causes physical devastation, suffering, displacement and death. It creates trauma now and for generations to come. So how can we reduce violent conflict or prevent it from happening in the first place?