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- Blog
- 22nd Mar 2019
Applying behavioural science to manage England’s water resources
The world is running out of water, but surely not ‘rainy Britain’, right?
- Report
- 28th Mar 2019
International development and behavioural insights
This report is a summary of international development work by the Behavioural Insights Team and its partners from 2017 to 2019.
- Blog
- 28th Mar 2019
Applying behavioural insights to international development
We’re often asked whether behavioural insights are relevant across different cultures and economies. After running projects with governments and organisations in more than 20 low and middle income countries - work summarised in our new report, out today - it’s a question we’re increasingly confident in answering: yes. Behavioural insights…
- Blog
- 1st Apr 2019
Flexible working and returners: What employers told us
Finding a way for care work and employment to function together is a struggle for millions of people across the UK, putting pressure on our finances and wellbeing. It’s a significant barrier to achieving gender equality, as caregiving responsibilities continue to fall disproportionately on women. Exploring how men and women…
- Blog
- 3rd Apr 2019
Nudge 2.0
‘Nudge’, the landmark book by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, turned ten this year. Shortly after its publication, public sector experiments started to prove the concept at scale: adding social norms to tax letters and using defaults to get more people saving for retirement, for example. These first generation nudges…
- Report
- 4th Apr 2019
Behavior Change For Nature: A Behavioral Science Toolkit for Practitioners
We are fortunate to live in a world filled with both an abundance and diversity of life. Yet the growing scale and impact of human behaviour pose a grave risk to the natural world in irreversible ways. Deforestation, overfishing, ocean plastics, biodiversity loss, and climate change are increasingly threatening the…
Also available in: Español
- Report
- 4th Apr 2019
Cambio de comportamiento para la naturaleza: Una caja de herramientas de las ciencias del comportamiento para agentes de cambio
Somos afortunados de vivir en un mundo lleno de abundancia y diversidad de vida. Sin embargo, la escala y el impacto crecientes del comportamiento humano representan un grave riesgo para el mundo natural de manera irreversible. La deforestación, la sobrepesca, los plásticos en los océanos, la2019-Behavior-Change-for-Nature-Spanish.pdf pérdida de biodiversidad y…
Also available in: English
- Blog
- 8th Apr 2019
How behavioural insights can help us regulate tech companies and keep people safe online
New White Paper from the UK government aims to tackle online harms
- Blog
- 10th Apr 2019
Reducing dropout at Sixth Form Colleges
Moving from one place to another is always stressful - whether that’s a new house, a new town, a new job, or a new educational institution. When we arrive in a new environment, especially one where we don’t know anyone, we cast around looking for clues about how to behave…
- Blog
- 15th Apr 2019
Tackling online harms and manipulations: download our new paper
Most of us will spend at least half of our free time over the next year looking at screens