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Changing behaviours at scale: The challenge facing our health system

Changing behaviours at scale: The challenge facing our…

At the Conservative Party Conference earlier this month I attended an event on whether efficiency and patient expectations mutually exclusive….

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Do we need a ‘National Child Protection Service’?

Do we need a ‘National Child Protection…

Image credit: @aboutwithneilmp It was standing room only at a packed Localis fringe event to debate whether the UK needs…

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A narrative for communities in uncertain times

A narrative for communities in uncertain times

All communities share a collective story about themselves: who they are, where they came from, and the values that help…

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The power of the ‘eureka moment’

The power of the ‘eureka moment’

Recent research on the ‘eureka moment’ has shown that solutions derived from a flash of inspiration rather than a purely…

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Why the public sector should be wary of hindsight bias

Why the public sector should be wary of hindsight bias

Hindsight bias is when we justify something unexpected as if we knew it was going to happen all along. We’ve…

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Uberfication of social care is not the answer

Uberfication of social care is not the answer

“What if Uber did social care?” or a variation of this question is a topic of debate that rears its…

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Productivity and public services

Productivity and public services

I was waiting in my local housing office this morning and the man in front of me in the queue…

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Lessons on experimental government

Lessons on experimental government

Given the current and – following George Osbourne’s budget tomorrow – future financial challenge facing the public sector, Nesta’s seminar on…

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Behaviour change in education

Behaviour change in education

According to Garth Stahl – an academic who spent three years researching why white working class boys were the worst…

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Beyond a nudge is not another nudge

Beyond a nudge is not another nudge

This week I attended City University’s behaviour change seminar ‘Beyond Nudge: Risk, psychology and choice architecture in policy’. On the…

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IMPOWER’s greatest hits 2015

IMPOWER’s greatest hits 2015

IMPOWER spend a lot of time collecting and analysing our clients’ data to unearth insights, reach conclusions and redesign services….

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Thinking about behaviours and the Labour leadership election

Thinking about behaviours and the Labour leadership election

Behavioural economics tells us that there are multiple social, economic and psychological factors influencing every decision we make. Which is…

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