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  • Blog
  • 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…
  • Person

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 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

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…