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- 17th Jul 2020
Improving student attendance through timely nudges
In the UK, 90% of teachers report that pupils are doing less or much less work than usual. On average UK pupils have spent just 2.5 hours a day on school work, but a fifth (or 2 million) did no schoolwork or less than an hour a day. School closures…
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- 10th Jul 2020
Mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on higher education
Students about to start or return to higher education in September face a radically different experience to what they originally anticipated - with online classes and reduced social contact. As social distancing measures become the ‘new normal’ under COVID-19, higher education providers must explore new ways to support access, success…
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- 15th Jun 2020
Life after lockdown: an opportunity for change?
Widespread lockdown, it turns out, has presented many of us with an unexpected opportunity to make positive changes to our lives.
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- 26th Mar 2020
How behavioural insights can help college and university students learning remotely due to COVID-19
In the coming months, millions of college and university students around the world will be exclusively learning from home for the first time ever. Without the structure and routine of face-to-face sessions, it will be a massive challenge for these students to continue to engage productively with learning.
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- 19th Mar 2020
900 million children and young people are learning from home. What works best?
As the UK prepares for schools to shut tomorrow, this post explores the evidence on what works for remote learning and provides ideas for how to help parents support their children’s learning at home, based on our experience running a number of projects in this space
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Cameron Knott
Cameron is the Research Lead for our Singapore office, overseeing all research projects in Singapore and across the region. He also leads a set of flagship research projects and external training - including the BI Practitioner Program, a 13-week intensive course that trains Singaporean civil servants how to manage research…
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- 18th Feb 2020
Behavioural Insights Applied Live Academy by UK’s Behavioral Insights Team
During a 3-day capacity-building and problem-centered learning workshop representatives from “Work Armenia” working group and public servants will learn the nuances of behavioral experiments.
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Dr Bowen J Fung
Bowen is a Senior Research Advisor in our Sydney office. His work focuses on public health, sustainability and the effective use of data to gain new insights. Bowen completed a PhD in cognitive science at the University of Melbourne. His thesis looked at how time perception is incorporated into different…
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Faisa Abdi
Faisa is an Advisor working in the Health and Wellbeing team. Since joining BIT, Faisa spent time in the Research and Evaluation team, working across a range of policy areas. Before joining BIT, Faisa worked as a consultant advising clients on how to replicate and scale social impact programs, both…
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Eleanor Collerton
Eleanor is a senior advisor within the financial behaviour team at BIT. Eleanor leads projects within the Gambling Policy and Research Unit at BIT, which explores how behavioural insights can be applied to reduce gambling harm. Whilst at BIT Eleanor has worked across a range of policy areas and has…