Human behaviour drives the actions of consumers, workers and businesses, and in doing so, drives the performance of the wider economy. We want to improve access to high quality work; increase business productivity and growth; and improve macroeconomic policy to the benefit of citizens and businesses across the economy.
Featured work
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BIT’s biggest trial so far encourages more flexible jobs and applications
We wanted to see if we could encourage employers to advertise more jobs with flexible working options. 20 million job applications passed through this RCT - making it one of the biggest experimental social policy trials ever published.
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Changing Truck Driving Behavior One Mile at a Time
The Behavioral Insights Team recently partnered with LinkeDrive – an industry leader in truck driver performance management – to identify ways to use behavioral insights to help truck drivers drive more safely and fuel-efficiently, while also improving drivers’ experience on the road.
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Meet the team

Elisabeth Costa
Senior Director, Policy and Partnerships

Nida Broughton
Director, Economic Policy

Robbie Tilleard
Senior Advisor and Lead for Organisational Behaviour, Employment and Labour Markets

Johannes Lohmann
Head of Employment, Organisational Behaviour and Public Sector Innovation

Dr Guglielmo Briscese
Senior Advisor