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- 28th Aug 2015
Inside the Nudge Unit was published this week.
Inside the Nudge Unit was published this week by WHAllen. I wanted to email out partly to say thanks to the many people who have contributed to the success of the team and the wider application of behavioural science and experimentation to policy. I also wanted to give you the headlines.in the…
- Blog
- 1st Sep 2015
Nudging for good - David Halpern and Owain Service
As the world leading behavioural scientists gather in London to share new and remarkable results, a new book - Inside the Nudge Unit – urges we ‘nudge for good’, and all keep an eye on who nudges the nudgers. This week, the world’s leading behavioural experts are gathering in the…
- Timeline
London calling
BIT hosts Behavioural Exchange with 90 speakers, including Daniel Kahneman, Richard Thaler and Steven Pinker, with 900 delegates from 30+ countries
- Blog
- 15th Feb 2016
Applications now open for Behavioural Exchange 2016 Junior Scholars Award
Following the success of the first BX Awards last year at our London BX2015 Conference, we are pleased to be able to announce that the award for junior scholars will be returning to the BX2016 conference at Harvard this year. This award recognises junior scholars who are conducting cutting-edge research that intersects with applied areas…
- Blog
- 4th Jul 2016
Rounding up the latest insights from Behavioural Exchange 2016
Last month, members of the Behavioural Insights Team attended and presented at the third Behavioural Exchange conference, hosted by the Behavioral Insights Group at Harvard. The conference, which brought together over 400 academics, policymakers and practitioners, covered a huge range of issues at the cutting edge of behavioural science and…
- Blog
- 7th Jul 2016
Corruption: Can a behavioural approach shift the dial?
The first global summit on anti-corruption was held in London in May. The summit brought together world leaders, businesses, academics, civil society and international organisations to discuss the practical steps that could be taken to tackle corruption across the world. Here at BIT, we think that behavioural science can make…
- Blog
- 8th Nov 2016
Policymaking: should we be 'messier'?
Last week, we were lucky enough to be joined by the FT’s Undercover Economist, Tim Harford, who came to talk to us about his excellent new book Messy. The central premise of the book is that we often succumb to the temptation of a tidy-minded approach to getting something done,…
- Blog
- 21st Jun 2017
Applying behavioural insights in Asia’s city state
We set up BIT Singapore nine months ago to continue our mission to deliver rigorous social impact across the world. Singapore’s Public Service is one of the most innovative and effective in the world. We have been fortunate enough to have experienced this first-hand in our joint work on financial…
- Blog
- 30th Jun 2017
The world’s behavioural experts descend on Singapore for BX2017
Over the last couple of days, the Singaporean government hosted 400 practitioners from government, academia and business for the 4th Behavioural Exchange (BX) conference. The aim of the annual conference is to showcase the best examples from around the world of applying behavioural science to public policy. We have picked…
- Blog
- 26th Nov 2017
Behavioural Insights in Australia
In Everett Rogers's classic text, The Diffusion of Innovations, he argues that it helps that good ideas are effective. But it’s often not quite enough. For innovations to really take hold, they need to have the capacity to be trialled and reinvented in different contexts. People need to be able…