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- 9th Feb 2022
El Behavioral Insights Team se expande a América Latina y el Caribe
LONDRES 09 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 - El Behavioral Insights Team, innovadores en la aplicación de las ciencias del comportamiento a las políticas públicas en todo el mundo, anuncia hoy la expansión de sus operaciones a América Latina y el Caribe. Desde su lanzamiento por parte del gobierno del Reino Unido…
Also available in: English
- Blog
- 8th Feb 2022
Safer Internet Day: 5 behavioural projects to improve online safety
Today is Safer Internet Day, a day used to campaign for all stakeholders to ‘make the internet a safer and better place for all, and especially for children and young people.’ In this blog we outline why online platforms are so adept at influencing human behaviour and showcase five projects…
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Neus Torres Blas
Neus works as a Research advisor in the Education and Home Affairs team, supporting the team through the design, implementation and evaluation of trials and conducting quantitative analysis on a range of policy interventions in education. Previously to her work at BIT, Neus was a researcher in the Centre for…
- Blog
- 30th Nov 2021
Making employment services work for job seekers
Most people have been unemployed at some point in their lives. It can be a profoundly demotivating experience.
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Ol Jonatan Beun
OL (Jonatan) is a Principal Advisor at BIT Latin America and the Caribbean. Before joining BIT, he worked as a Behavioral Scientist at the World Bank’s Mind, Behavior and Development Unit (eMBeD), and he also served as Director for Capability Building and Innovation at the Federal Government of Argentina. From…
- Academic publication
- 4th Oct 2021
The EmpaTeach intervention for reducing physical violence from teachers to students in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp
We tested whether the EmpaTeach intervention could reduce physical violence from teachers to students in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp, Tanzania.
- Blog
- 8th Sep 2021
Learning About Culture: The importance of arts-based learning, the limits of what we know about it, and the challenges of evaluating it
There is little doubt about the importance of arts and culture to the education and upbringing of young people. Arts-based education gives young people an important means of creative expression and “arts for arts’ sake” is the best argument for having arts-based education in schools
- Blog
- 13th May 2021
Can nudging improve student wellbeing? Results from an RCT in Australia
Studying at university can be challenging at the best of times: students are often juggling financial stress, challenging course content, living or studying in a new city, and changes to their friendships and social support networks. The events of 2020 certainly do not appear to have helped: a recent survey…
- Blog
- 11th May 2021
Chômage des jeunes: repenser l’accompagnement pour aider les jeunes à prendre leur parcours professionnel en main
Après des années de réduction constante, les progrès faits en France sur le chômage des jeunes sont à nouveau menacés, cette fois par la pandémie de Covid-19
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- Blog
- 11th May 2021
Youth unemployment in France: rethinking support to help young people plan their way into work
After years of steady reductions in joblessness, France’s progress on youth unemployment is threatened anew - this time by the COVID-19 pandemic
Also available in: Français