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Dr Alex Gyani
Alex is the Director of the Behavioural Insights Team's Australian office. He has been based in Sydney since 2014. Previously Alex oversaw the team’s research and evaluation work across Singapore, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand and ran the office in Aotearoa New Zealand from 2018-2021. Since joining the team in…
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Hannah Burd
Hannah has designed, led and executed complex and effective change programmes in her 6+ years at BIT. She has been responsible for BIT's NHS portfolio and subsequently Programme Director for one of our largest policy programmes - the Gender & Behavioural Insights Programme - that delivered 30 individual behavioural science…
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- 24th Jul 2015
Promoting diversity in the Police
Over the next few weeks, we will be highlighting some of our recent trials. This first post is dedicated to an emerging area of focus for BIT: home affairs and justice. We occasionally get a result that even we are stunned by. One of these, picked up in the media…
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- 8th Mar 2016
How do you get gender equality? Design for it
Thinking hard about the environments in which we make decisions is as important has having the best of intentions
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Nida Broughton
Nida Broughton is co-Director of Economic Policy at the Behavioural Insights Team. She oversees BIT's work across consumer policy, business regulation, economic growth, sustainability and EDI. Nida and her team work with partners across the public, private and third sector to apply behavioural science to tackle social impact challenges: improving…
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- 10th Nov 2017
How flexible working can improve gender equality in the workplace
Today is Equal Pay Day - an annual reminder of gender inequality in the workplace. While attention rightly tends to focus on the pay gap between men and women, there are a number of issues that impact differently on employees depending on their gender. One of those is flexible working.…
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- 23rd Nov 2017
When attempts to improve the treatment of women fail
The recent spotlight on sexual harassment in the workplace has led employers from Hollywood to Westminster to think about how they treat women. This, alongside the introduction of the new requirement for employers to report their Gender Pay Gap, means it is a good time to ask the question: what…
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- 6th Feb 2018
One hundred years of votes for women: what next to close the gender gap in politics?
Behavioural science can offer a range of solutions for the political gender gap. One promising direction is to increase the visibility of female politicians that young women can identify with.
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- 8th Mar 2018
What employers should do about their gender pay gaps
For the first time in history, employers with 250 or more employees in the UK are required by law to publicly report their gender pay gaps. The gender pay gap is not the same as unequal pay. Unequal pay means paying men and women differently for performing similar work (and…
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- 21st May 2018
BX2018: Diverse approaches to improving gender diversity
This is the first in a series of blog posts in the lead up to the Behavioural Exchange 2018 conference in Sydney. It continues the ongoing conversation that we, as a global organisation, have been having about diversity, and the role Behavioural Insights can play in improving gender equality. To…