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- 26th Jul 2022
Hard data is good data, but good data can be hard to get
Collecting good field data is challenging, not least for hygiene behaviours. It is even more challenging during a global pandemic - when there is great urgency, but travel restrictions make in-person quality control more difficult. How can you conduct this vital research when it is so hard to collect the…
- Blog
- 8th Mar 2022
Women Only Apply When 100% Qualified. Fact or Fake News?
This International Women’s Day, let’s celebrate taking an evidence-based approach to understanding gender inequality in the labour market
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Dr Filip Gesiarz
Filip is a Research Advisor in the Online Experiments team. He focuses on the design, delivery and analysis of online randomised controlled trials. Filip has worked as a lead researcher on several dozen projects across a range of policy areas, and consulted on a number of data science projects. Before…
- Blog
- 2nd Mar 2022
Accelerating public policy research with easier & safer synthetic data
To continuously improve how policies are developed, governments need to understand how policies actually affect people’s day-to-day lives. Doing this well requires data, and lots of it. But expanding the use of data in government also increases concern about individual privacy and the reach of the state. We’ve found a…
- Blog
- 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
- Academic publication
- 22nd Oct 2021
Using a randomised controlled trial to test the effectiveness of social norms feedback to reduce antibiotic prescribing without increasing inequities
We aimed to test whether a social-norm-based intervention successful elsewhere would have an effect on GPs with high prescribing rates of antibiotics. We also aimed to assess the effects on prescribing for Māori and Pacific patients.
- Blog
- 30th Sep 2021
Improving people’s risk perception of coronavirus
What factors affect how people perceive risk? And can we design interventions that help to make risk perception more accurate?
- Blog
- 29th Sep 2021
The public has a good understanding of coronavirus risk, but there are still big misconceptions
On ‘Freedom Day’ (July 19th 2021) England entered a new phase in its approach to managing coronavirus. Instead of legislation mandating behaviours, guidance will help people use their own judgement to make risk-based decisions. This change means it is especially important for policymakers to understand how people think about coronavirus risk.…
- Blog
- 10th Sep 2021
British and European Values - are they one and the same?
There is a mismatch between the way we see ourselves and the way we see others
- Academic publication
- 1st Apr 2021
Applying behavioural science to the annual electoral canvass in England: Evidence from a large-scale randomised controlled trial
While certain behavioural interventions can improve the efficiency of the annual canvass, other approaches or interventions may be needed to increase voter registration rates and update voter information.