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Given the current and – following George Osbourne’s budget tomorrow – future financial challenge facing the public sector, Nesta’s seminar on…
The current strategy and rhetoric around health and social care all focuses on the importance of prevention over treatment and…
If you’re under 35 and not a trustafarian or an internet millionaire, did you seriously think you’d be retiring at…
Our recent survey of around 100 Council chief executives and senior directors showed that the financial sustainability of adult social…
According to Garth Stahl – an academic who spent three years researching why white working class boys were the worst…
Over designed – even ‘pretty’ – slide decks are synonymous with management consultancy and are often accused of being a…
Thinking back to my time as a Special Advisor, first for Tony Blair then later for the Secretary of State…
A prevalent design principle in modern architecture is that form should follow function but we believe that this is a…
This week I attended City University’s behaviour change seminar ‘Beyond Nudge: Risk, psychology and choice architecture in policy’. On the…
In their 2008 book Nudge, Thaler and Sunstein dedicate a whole chapter, entitled Objections, to various criticisms of behavioural economics….
Heading home last Tuesday on the train I read a fascinating article in the Evening Standard that I thought I…
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