Changing behaviours at scale: The challenge facing our health system
At the Conservative Party Conference earlier this month I attended an event on whether efficiency and patient expectations mutually exclusive….
October 17, 2016
Jenna Collins
Do we need a ‘National Child Protection Service’?
Image credit: @aboutwithneilmp It was standing room only at a packed Localis fringe event to debate whether the UK needs…
October 4, 2016
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…
July 22, 2016
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…
June 3, 2016
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…
May 6, 2016
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…
April 15, 2016
Productivity and public services
I was waiting in my local housing office this morning and the man in front of me in the queue…
March 23, 2016
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…
March 15, 2016
Behaviour change in education
According to Garth Stahl – an academic who spent three years researching why white working class boys were the worst…
March 3, 2016
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…
February 12, 2016
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….
December 15, 2015
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…
August 11, 2015
