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- Report
- 16th Mar 2021
Household factors and girls’ aspirations for male-dominated STEM degrees and careers
This research project investigated why girls are less likely than boys to choose STEM subjects (such as engineering, physics and maths) at university.
- Blog
- 26th Mar 2021
Why policymakers need Netflix, and why Netflix needs behavioural insights
Mass media interventions have been successful at shifting a variety of behaviours, from encouraging HIV testing in Nigeria through an MTV show Shuga, to reducing inter-ethnic prejudice in Rwanda through radio shows, to increasing reporting of domestic violence using short films at film festivals in Uganda. But understanding how mass media…
- Person
Sheena Mirpuri
Sheena Mirpuri is a Senior Advisor at BIT Americas. Prior to joining BIT, she worked in the Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where she was involved in behaviorally informed interventions to improve the health and well-being of taxi and for-hire vehicle drivers in…
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Tash Freeburn
Tash is an Advisor based in our Sydney office and has worked across both private and public sectors. Tash is passionate about applying behavioural insights and human-centred design to enable organisational change, improved employee experience and enhanced wellbeing. Prior to joining BIT, Tash worked at Deloitte as a Management Consultant,…
- Blog
- 21st May 2021
How many days should we work from home after COVID-19?
Today we launch a report detailing a randomised controlled trial (RCT) we ran with Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S). The trial set out to evaluate the impact of setting different expectations for how much employees should work from home. DE&S is a public sector organisation with 11,500 employees (66% men)…
- Report
- 21st May 2021
How many days should we work from home?
Today we launch a report detailing a randomised controlled trial (RCT) we ran with Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S). The trial set out to evaluate the impact of setting different expectations for how much employees should work from home. DE&S is a public sector organisation with 11,500 employees (66% men)…
- Blog
- 24th May 2021
Will flexible working improve gender equality after COVID-19?
Today we launch a report detailing the findings from a longitudinal survey carried out in 2020 with nearly 4,500 UK employees that collected data on the time periods before lockdown (March), during early lockdown (May) and during tiered lockdown (October). We explored changes in flexible working across time and their…
- Report
- 24th May 2021
Impact of changes in flexible working during lockdown on gender equality in the workplace
We carried out a longitudinal survey with UK employees (n = 4,426) to explore changes in flexible working (remote working and hours), unpaid care work (childcare, adult care and housework), career and wellbeing outcomes, and their relationship with gender equality in the workplace.
- Report
- 4th Jun 2021
Facilitating return to the labour market with a novel CV format intervention
We applied to 9,022 job vacancies over a 6-month period spanning October 2019 to March 2020. We found that displaying experience in terms of the number of years rather than dates led to a 4.8 percentage point (14.6%) increase in the positive callback rate. Further analysis suggested that the ‘no…
- Blog
- 4th Jun 2021
Can one line on a CV support people back into work?
Recruiters spend less than 10 seconds screening a CV. Such rapid decision-making increases the role that bias can play in hiring decisions. Rather than skills, irrelevant factors can become filtering criteria or sources of discrimination, consciously or otherwise. To test how changes to the design of CVs might reduce a…