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- 4th Nov 2021
Get-Greener, a new tool to help people change their behaviour and lower their carbon emissions
BIT and Energy Systems Catapult have developed a beta version of a new tool - Get-Greener.com - to help identify the best steps to cut carbon emissions
- Blog
- 16th Sep 2021
Would you like friction with that?
If you’re reading this, you are no doubt familiar with nudges. But what about sludges?
- Blog
- 22nd Aug 2019
The importance of replication
If you’ve ever run a Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT), you know how exciting it is to find a solution that works.
- 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…
- BI Venture
Networky
Networky is a digital buddying platform that we originally built for the National Citizens Service (NCS). It has connected 40,000 young people to have safe, online conversations before starting the 2018 Summer programme. The act of matching the right person at the right time has previously been shown to boost…
- BI Venture
Promptable
Promptable is our student support programme that increases attendance and grade attainment. It works by sending students timely and relevant SMS messages that contain motivational themes and study tips as well as practical information such as exam dates and content relating to subjects they have been taught that week. It…
- BI Venture
Applied
Applied, BIT's first tech spin out, is a people platform focused on using behavioural and data science to improve hiring decisions. Applied uses (and conducts!) research to design products that help teams to hire smarter, fairer and more diversely than ever. Since its launch in 2016, 70,000 candidates have applied…
- BI Venture
Predictiv
What is Predictiv? Predictiv is an online platform for running behavioural experiments built by the Behavioural Insights Team. It enables governments and other organisations to run randomised controlled trials (RCTs) with an online population of participants, and to experiment whether new policies and interventions work before they are deployed in…
- BI Venture
Test+Build
TEST + Build provides a way for users to tackle challenges drawing on BIT’s years of experience. TEST + Build is a digital platform that enables organisations to apply insights from behavioural science to their live communication projects. It provides users with the tools to design more behaviourally informed letters,…
- Blog
- 17th Oct 2018
50,000 candidates have now applied for jobs through Applied – the Behavioural Insights Team’s first BI Venture
In the early 1970s, only one in twenty people in the top five US orchestras were women. Now that figure is more like one in three. As Harvard Professor Iris Bohnet explains in her book on ‘what works’ to reduce gender inequality, one of the reasons for this shift is…