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Dr Helen Brown

Helen is Interim Director of BIT's International Programmes team, leading our portfolio in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. She is commited to addressing the world's most complex problems through the application of behavioural science, and rigorous evaluation, across global health, education,…

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Lilli Wagstaff

Lilli is a Research Advisor in the Home Affairs and International Programmes team where she leads the evaluation of a number of projects with different police forces and government agencies on reducing violence and recidivism. Additionally, Lilli also works as the research lead on a range of international projects, including…

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Ariel Lee Bothen

Ariel joined BIT as an Advisor in the area of Social Cohesion and Intergration and is part of the Home Affairs and International Development team. She joined BIT after completing her master’s degree in International Affairs, with a focus on conflict studies, at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin…

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Bridie Murphy

Bridie is an Associate Advisor working in the International Development team. Prior to joining BIT, Bridie worked as a secondary school Spanish teacher in London and at IIPE UNESCO, a Latin American education research facility. To date, her work at BIT has spanned a range of policy areas including health,…

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• 24th Jan 2019

Building capacity and ensuring timely tax returns

Working with the Indonesian Tax Authority (Direktorat Jenderal Pajak, or DJP) on our second project together, we ran our largest randomised controlled trial with 11.2 million taxpayers.

• Case study
• 24th Jan 2019

Tackling tuberculosis in Moldova

There are still 1.6 million tuberculosis (TB) related deaths a year around the world despite the availability of effective treatment.

• Report
• 24th Jan 2019

The Behavioural Insights Team Annual Update Report 2017-18

Latest results from the team, covering issues from healthcare to humanitarian aid.

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Sending money home

• Blog
• 19th Oct 2018

Capacity building work in Indonesia, Bangladesh and Guatemala

As a social purpose company, we want to maximise the amount of good we can do. This often means capacity building—supporting partners around the world to achieve social impact at scale. Over the past 20 months, in one of our largest capacity building programmes to date, BIT has been working…

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• 19th Oct 2018

Reducing Tax Return Errors in Form 1770 in Indonesia

The aim of this project was to reduce common errors that Indonesian taxpayers make when completing certain sections of their tax return form. In an online experiment using BIT’s Predictiv platform, we tested the impact of a two-page FAQ flyer on accuracy when completing the form. Compared to participants who…