Results
Browse through your search results here.
Filter by :
- Blog
- 12th Nov 2015
Social trust is one of the most important measures that most people have never heard of – and it’s moving
Do you think most people can be trusted? This is a question first asked in the 1950s, and from the early 1980s incorporated into the World Values Surveys. It has since proven to be one of the most interesting and important indicators of the strength and quality of societies and…
- Blog
- 27th Oct 2015
Victoria’s Citizens’ Jury on Obesity
Wow! I'm writing this heading back from Australia, from the citizens’ jury VicHealth have just supported on obesity. It was a very powerful, and moving, process. Having seen the jury in action, it is hard to imagine a future of democracy – and the application of behavioural science to policy –…
- Blog
- 16th Oct 2015
World Statistics Day
It’s ‘World Statistics Day’ on October 20th! OK, it’s not quite as exciting as Christmas, but it does merit a moment of reflection - at least to encourage a next generation to marvel and pursue the wonder of statistics. As a young lecturer at Cambridge, my then Faculty made the…
- Blog
- 1st Sep 2015
Nudging for good - David Halpern and Owain Service
As the world leading behavioural scientists gather in London to share new and remarkable results, a new book - Inside the Nudge Unit – urges we ‘nudge for good’, and all keep an eye on who nudges the nudgers. This week, the world’s leading behavioural experts are gathering in the…
- Blog
- 26th Jun 2014
Building your policy house of brick or straw
Entry by David Halpern, CEO of BIT and the UK's National Adviser on What Works Do you remember the story of the three little pigs who each build a house? One builds a house of straw, another of sticks, and the other of brick. The first two build their houses…