Behavioural insights
Article
Three steps for regulators to embrace behavioural science
This article outlines three rules to help regulators gain the greatest benefit from new and applied research in behavioural science.
Conference paper
Towards a Lean behaviour evaluation system in Latin American construction
This research seeks to identify the main competences of professionals in charge of Lean implementations in Construction Projects from a Latin American point of view, as a basis for the development of key behavioural indicators (KBI).
Article
How regulators can benefit from a focus on risk: Harvard's Malcolm Sparrow
The response to the COVID-19 pandemic has seen the biggest experiment in rapid behaviour change in the 21st century, as governments try to persuade and regulate entire populations to make huge changes to their lives for the common good.
Video
Why do people comply? COVID-19 compliance behaviours in international and local perspective
Getting people to behave in desirable ways (or cease behaving in undesirable ones) is a critical outcome for regulators. While we struggle to save lives and flatten the curve, COVID-19 is providing behavioural and compliance researchers with a natural policy experiment in why people do and don’t do what they’re told, and how this differs...
Report
Prevention in the age of information: public education for better health
Tackling preventative illness must remain a top priority for the government in the 2020s. This report argues that the UK government must deliver a paradigm shift in prevention policy from interventions that ‘blame and punish’ to those that ‘empathise and assist.’ The aim of prevention policy is to drive behaviour change - to help people...