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- 5th Dec 2017
Measuring the impact of body worn video cameras on police behaviour and criminal justice outcomes
Introduction One of the most significant technical innovations in policing in recent years has been the emergence of the body worn video camera (BWVC), a form of closed circuit video. Though police forces across the world have begun to use the new technology to increase efficiency and improve policing outcomes,…
- Blog
- 14th Dec 2017
Data science at BIT - first year report
This morning sees the publication of BIT’s first data science report. It marks the culmination of twelve months of work by our data science team, which was inaugurated in January 2017. The team have worked across policy areas from education to health to children’s social care and road safety, and…
- Blog
- 1st Feb 2018
Why text?
At BIT, we send a lot of text messages. It’s not just us - other behavioural scientists use them a lot too. In fact, you could wonder aloud whether we have any other ideas. In the last six years we’ve used text messages to increase fine repayments, GCSE pass-rates, University…
- Blog
- 15th Mar 2018
Charities and Public Trust
A few weeks ago, Oxfam’s CEO testified to Parliament that 7,000 people had cancelled their direct debit donations since the Times broke a story on the 9th of February about improprieties by the charity’s employees in Haiti in 2010. As Daniel Fluskey from the Institute of Fundraising pointed out when…
- Blog
- 27th Mar 2018
Encouraging milk banking – please get in touch
Two weeks ago, Michael Sanders (BIT’s Chief Scientist) and his wife had a baby boy, Teddy. In this post, he talks about what happened next. They tell you that everything changes, and they’re wrong. I liked numbers before, and I like them now. Here are some: 750ml – how much…
- Academic publication
- 12th May 2018
Testing Local Descriptive Norms and Salience of Enforcement Action: A Field Experiment to Increase Tax Collection
The use of behavioural science interventions, and particularly social norms, in tax compliance has become a growth industry for scholars and practitioners alike in recent years.
- Blog
- 8th Jun 2018
Call for papers about Social Norms
Of all the interventions that have come to the fore since the behavioural revolution in government, perhaps the most prominent has been the use of social norms to encourage behaviours. Whether it’s encouraging people to pay their taxes on time, getting doctors to reduce their antibiotic prescriptions or boosting classroom…
- Blog
- 27th Jun 2018
Using behavioural science to put charities on a surer footing
Although some recent controversies have cast the third sector in a poor light, the fact remains that Britain’s 170,000 charities are essential to providing both day to day support, and vital research funding, for worthy causes that millions of people care about. Despite this, and despite the fact that Britain…
- Blog
- 2nd Jul 2018
Apposite apologies
Sorry, as Elton John memorably (and Blue not so memorably) sang, seems to be the hardest word. People and organisations very often miss out on chances to make amends by refusing to apologise, or worse still, offering a “non-apology”- saying that they're sorry if people were offended, for example, instead…
- Blog
- 3rd Jul 2018
Antimicrobial Resistance and BI - What’s Next?
In their book “Super-bugs, the arms race against bacteria”, William Hall and colleagues highlight that an estimated 1.5 million deaths a year are attributable to drug resistant bugs caused by antimicrobial resistance (AMR). They describe AMR as “a truly global problem that has the potential to affect every person on…