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- 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
- Report
- 15th Apr 2019
The behavioural science of online harm and manipulation, and what to do about it
An exploratory paper to spark ideas and debate
- Blog
- 29th Apr 2019
How behavioural insights and education technology could transform schools
The Department for Education’s new strategy on education technology, announced earlier this month, aims to build the evidence base for education technology (EdTech) and help schools take advantage of the best products and services.
- Blog
- 9th May 2019
Can we be more ambitious on sustainable diets?
Last week, a few doors down from where the Extinction Rebellion protests took place in Parliament Square, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) released its report on how the UK should transition to ‘net zero’ greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The key recommendation of the report is to up the…