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Leonie Nicks
Leonie is Head of Crime, Security & Justice. Her team focuses on making life safer and more secure. In her previous experience at BIT, she has worked with a wide range of clients on workplace & equity challenges. Before BIT, Leonie worked at Accenture in technology consulting. She has an…
- Blog
- 4th Feb 2020
BIT Crime Week #2 Fighting crime with data and innovation
I’d never seen a corpse before. I stepped carefully to avoid blood and body parts as people ran from the terrorists, who proclaimed their allegiance to a banned far-right group. The Armed Response Vehicles arrived within 6 minutes of being called and snipers scaled the roof, but already several people…
- Podcast: Inside The Nudge Unit
- 4th Oct 2021
Combatting sexual harassment and violence; economic policy-making
In this latest episode of Inside The Nudge Unit BIT’s Aisling Colclough and Lis Costa look at two more major areas of work by the team around the world. First they are joined by colleagues Dr Vera Newman and Monica Wills Silva to explore BIT projects in Australia and Latin…
- Person
Taya Jackson
Taya is an Advisor working in the Home Affairs and Education team. Taya’s work focuses on crime and policing. Since joining BIT Taya has worked on projects to reduce vehicle crime, improve probation processes and improve multi-agency working within communities. Prior to joining BIT, Taya worked as a police officer…
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Niall Daly
Niall is a Research Advisor in the Health team at BIT UK, working across a wide range of projects within the health, crime prevention, and education spaces. He has experience working with the NHS and other domestic partners, as well as with partners in several other countries to design, implement,…
- Report
- 30th Nov 2022
Understanding homicide: A framework analysis
Funded by London’s Violence Reduction Unit (VRU), this framework analyses police data to better understand the drivers of homicide and identify opportunities to intervene earlier. The VRU commissioned the Behavioural Insights Team to work alongside the Met police to develop the framework using data from 50 homicide cases to capture…
- Report
- 15th Aug 2023
Estrategias basadas en las ciencias del comportamiento para abordar la violencia contra las mujeres en América Latina y el Caribe
Las ciencias del comportamiento, referidas al estudio riguroso de la conducta humana y de cómo nuestras acciones son moldeadas por el contexto, pueden desempeñar un papel clave en el desarrollo de soluciones basadas en la evidencia para este problema.
- Report
- 15th Aug 2023
Mejorando la seguridad de las empresarias en Honduras: siete estrategias desde las ciencias del comportamiento
Este documento presenta los resultados de una investigación cualitativa realizada en 2020 desde la mirada de las ciencias del comportamiento, cuyo propósito fue entender los retos y las oportunidades de las pequeñas y medianas empresarias en Honduras, principalmente relacionados con su seguridad.
- Press release
- 18th Oct 2023
Groundbreaking research on WhatsApp chatbot to reduce intimate partner violence published in PLOS
Patterns of violence can start at an impressionable age, when teenagers and women start their first serious relationships and learn what is “normal”—or even desirable—in a partner. There is a strong connection between positive power equity beliefs and lower IPV prevalence.
- Blog
- 23rd Nov 2023
Breaking the cycle of silence: Using behavioural insights to tackle gender-based violence in Indonesia
One in three women in Indonesia have experienced violence by an intimate male partner during their lifetime. To promote gender justice in Indonesia, we worked with independent researchers affiliated with UNDP Indonesia who conducted immersion research with GBV survivors.