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Blog 18th Dec 2024

What makes some communities better at building social connections?

Our social capital - the quality of our relationships - shapes critical life outcomes, from the jobs we get to whether we end up in prison. Yet historically, policymakers have often overlooked social capital, mainly due to difficulties in measuring it and a lack of evidence-based solutions to boost it.…

Comment & Opinion 17th Dec 2024

Breaking down behavioral barriers to affordable housing in the US

The US is experiencing an affordable housing crisis, and renters are bearing the brunt of it. For nearly half of renters - over 21 million households - more than 30% of their income goes toward rent. This leaves little room to make ends meet, let alone to save for emergencies…

Handbook 16th Dec 2024

EAST Framework: Four Simple Ways to Apply Behavioural Insights

If you want to encourage a behaviour, make it Easy, Attractive, Social and Timely (EAST). These four simple principles, based on the Behavioural Insights Team’s own work and the wider academic literature, form the heart of the team’s new framework for applying behavioural insights.

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Petra Christianto Hadijaya

Petra is an Associate Research Advisor at BIT Asia Pacific, based in Jakarta. He joined BIT after completing his Master’s degree in economic psychology from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Previously, Petra worked at the Ministry of Communications and Informatics of the Republic of Indonesia, where…

Blog 11th Dec 2024

Changing US consumer habits to reduce plastic bag waste

In most parts of the US, entering a store empty handed and leaving with purchases tucked inside a plastic bag is the norm.  As a result, the country uses 100 billion single-use plastic bags every year, contributing to millions of tons of CO2 emissions. The Center for the Circular Economy…

Blog 11th Dec 2024

Reducing paracetamol dosing errors in communities from Aotearoa, New Zealand

Liquid paracetamol is used for pain relief by most parents and caregivers for tamariki (children). Despite how commonly paracetamol is given to children, parents and caregivers can often forget about the possibility of paracetamol overdose if it isn’t administered carefully.  In fact, in Aotearoa New Zealand, overdoses of paracetamol are…

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Juliet Morgan

Based in the Sydney office, Juliet supports the APAC Managing Director while providing project coordination and operational support to the wider team. Before joining BIT, Juliet gained extensive experience in FMCG marketing, business administration, and event management. She holds a Bachelor of Social Science, a Graduate Certificate in Advertising, a…

Comment & Opinion 10th Dec 2024

Big shifts for behavioural science: working with complexity and systems

This is the first piece in our series explaining the four big shifts in behavioural science that BIT is aiming to achieve. In 2023, we published our manifesto, which set out ten proposals for where the field of behavioural science should go next. Now, BIT and Nesta have taken things…

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Amelia Engel

Amelia is the Human Resources Coordinator for Australia and Asia Pacific. Based in the Sydney office, she manages day-to-day HR processes and activities for the Australia & Singapore teams as well as providing administrative support to the Global HR team. Prior to joining BIT, Amelia worked as an HR Generalist…

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