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- 8th Nov 2017
Global funders back Applied, first spin out from the Behavioural Insights Team
We are delighted to announce that Applied, the online recruitment tool spun out from the Behavioural Insights Team, has successfully raised funding which will enable it to scale its operations worldwide. Applied started as a project within BIT, when we began to change our internal hiring practices in line with…
- Blog
- 1st Feb 2018
Why text?
At BIT, we send a lot of text messages. It’s not just us - other behavioural scientists use them a lot too. In fact, you could wonder aloud whether we have any other ideas. In the last six years we’ve used text messages to increase fine repayments, GCSE pass-rates, University…
- Blog
- 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…
- Report
- 21st Mar 2018
The impact of improved transparency of foreign money transfers for consumers and SMEs
Final report
- Blog
- 11th May 2018
The benefits of rebalancing childcare
Kids in Finland are unique among their international counterparts - they are the only children to spend more time with their dads than with their mums. Could the Finnish model of childcare have lessons for the rest of us? Some research suggests that kids who spend time with their fathers…
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Ben Lethbridge
Ben is the Head of Growth at BIT. He has over 12 years experience in the mobile technology industry. Most recently Ben headed up the big data work that EE were delivering to the transport and infrastructure sector, creating new partnerships and delivering insights for government departments such as Highways…
- 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…
- 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,…
- BI Venture
Predictiv
What is Predictiv? Predictiv is the world's first and most used behavioural online experiments platform enabling policy-makers to access timely empirical evidence to inform their decision-making. It can probe understanding, sentiments, and estimate real world behaviours. It enables us to collect data from an online population of participants across a…
- 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…