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Dr Inês Barreiros

Ines is a Senior Advisor in the Home Affairs and Security team, where she applies behavioural science across diverse policy areas, including social cohesion, crime, justice, security and defence. In her previous experience at BIT, she worked on evaluations and data analysis in international development contexts and across a range…

  • Podcast: Inside The Nudge Unit
  • 4th Oct 2021

Combatting sexual harassment and violence; economic policy-making

In this latest episode of Inside The Nudge Unit BIT’s Aisling Colclough and Lis Costa look at two more major areas of work by the team around the world. First they are joined by colleagues Dr Vera Newman and Monica Wills Silva to explore BIT projects in Australia and Latin…

  • Academic publication
  • 4th Oct 2021

The EmpaTeach intervention for reducing physical violence from teachers to students in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp

We tested whether the EmpaTeach intervention could reduce physical violence from teachers to students in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp, Tanzania.

  • Blog
  • 17th Sep 2021

Applying behavioural insights and dialogue to build Smart Peace in conflict settings

For three years, The Behavioural Insights Team has been part of Smart Peace, an initiative to apply a deep understanding of human behaviour to develop new tools for peacebuilding in some of the world’s most fragile states. In collaboration with the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Conciliation Resources and ETH Zurich,…

  • Report
  • 24th Aug 2021

Using edutainment to encourage COVID helpline calls in the presence of stigma

Continuing a collaboration started in March 2017, the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) and the Access to Information (a2i) team of the Bangladeshi government came together in mid-2020 to explore how behavioural insights could be applied and tested as part of the government’s Covid-19 pandemic response. This report summarises our findings.

  • Blog
  • 24th Aug 2021

Tackling Covid with videos in Bangladesh: three practical ways to apply behavioural insights to edutainment

As of late July 2021, there have likely been more than 10 million deaths from Covid globally. Part of this devastating impact reflects a lack of awareness of what actions people need to take to seek care and reduce further transmission if symptoms become apparent. Even if people know what…

  • Person

Alice Escande

Alice est Conseillère Principale au BIT France où elle travaille sur des projets à impact social dans les domaines de la santé publique, du bien-être et de la cohésion sociale. Avant de rejoindre le BIT, elle a travaillé en tant que Associée Senior au Busara Center for Behavioral Economics au…

  • Blog
  • 23rd Apr 2021

Nudging bystanders to fight sexual harassment isn’t easy, but could make perpetrators think twice

Many of us would like to think we’d do something to stop sexual harassment if it happened right in front of our eyes. Indeed when we surveyed over 3,000 commuters getting off public buses in Dhaka, 9 out of 10 respondents listed at least one helpful action they would take…

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Miguel Rosales

Miguel is a Senior Advisor and works in the International Development area. Prior to BIT, Miguel worked in the Mexican Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, within the International Affairs Unit, and as an advisor to the Undersecretary of Finance. Before that, he worked in the Rural Supply Program Evaluation…

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Erin Britton

Erin is a Senior Advisor at BIT Americas. Prior to joining BIT, Erin worked as a social impact consultant, providing strategy, capacity building, and program evaluation support to nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and foundations across the U.S. and internationally. Her work and interests lie in managing change, building strong, collaborative…