🚨New report on barriers & enablers to reducing domestic burning, using behavioural systems mapping. The project was completed by the Defra Strategic Behavioural Insights Team as part of @drjodw.bsky.social Policy Fellowship funded by the ESRC, Defra & UCL 🔗 sciencesearch.defra.gov.uk/ProjectDetai...

Centre-UB is offering 15 new studentships! Co-designed & co-supervised by University of Birmingham researchers and partner organisations, these PhD opportunities provide unique learning experiences across various sectors and environments. Find out more here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...

💡We caught up with @luciebd.bsky.social & Prof Jo Hart to discuss their keynote at #BCConf2025! Join us to hear about the challenges & benefits of working with complex systems and international partnerships, & how to navigate them effectively. 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch... @susanmichie.bsky.social

Registration is open for #LYP2025, a day of connections, insights & action focused on accelerating the green transition in the UK. Join UCL faculty, including our Director @susanmichie.bsky.social, policy influencers, industry leaders & civil society advocates. 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/love-your-...

Pleased to share our latest open-access paper on behavioural systems mapping from @ucl-cbc.bsky.social 🔗 Read our step-by-step approach in this case study on waste management: www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15... 🔍 Explore the beahvioural systems map on Kumu: kumu.io/JoHale/waste...

Join @uclpublicpolicy.bsky.social on 12 March from 5-8pm for an insightful event exploring the critical role of science communication during times of crisis. Ft. experts from academia, media & policy, including our Director @susanmichie.bsky.social. 🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/communicat...

Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5

In case you missed it...we sent out our latest newsletter yesterday! 📨 Sign up to be informed of key updates from the CBC, such as our vacancy for a permanent, full-time Research Consultancy & Training Fellow / Senior Fellow. 👉 us3.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=bd86... @susanmichie.bsky.social

How many of us have articulated our ethics as applied to our professional work? Arguably behavioural scientists should all have a crack at it. Here is a substack article setting out what I think may be mine, with apologies for the corny AI-generated image! robertwest100.substack.com/p/what-makes...

In a study that may surprise some or may surprise no one... Participants don't read consent forms. They spend about 8 seconds on them, older people are more likely to have read , but really 6-17% could have even skimmed. Ethical & practical issues abound. osf.io/npa3b/downlo... #metasky #phdsky

⏰ Our online introductory behaviour change course starts on Monday! Learn about the COM-B model & Behaviour Change Wheel from the experts who developed them. A self-paced 4-week course, moderated by experts, with a live Q&A at the end. 👉 www.futurelearn.com/courses/beha... @susanmichie.bsky.social

Are you conducting a health psychology study and need help with recruitment? We can assist. All you need to do is send the following to [email protected] 🗒️ Short description of the research 🖼️ Recruitment poster 🔬 Study protocol ✅ Proof of ethical approval

🚨 Hiring 4 permanent post-doc #EnvironmentalSocialScientists at The James Hutton Institute's Social, Economic & Geographical Sciences Dept. ⏰ Closing date is 7 January hutton.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

Job Opportunity This is an exciting opportunity to make a real impact in the world of #climate and #environmental #policymaking. We are looking for an exceptional #communicator to join our team as a Communications Officer. Closing date Wed 1 Jan 25 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKZ082/c...

We are looking for an exceptional communicator to join our team as a Communications Officer. Help amplify our work, engage key stakeholders, & build a strong network through clear, persuasive, & strategic communication. tinyurl.com/574xw3uz

We are recruiting participants for a #behaviouralscience project at @ucl-cbc.bsky.social on switching corporate energy supplier - if you know someone relevant who would be willing to spare us half an hour for an interview, please put them in touch. Thanks!

I often have people telling me that if we just change the name that will get people on board. Newsflash: it won't. Better news: here's what will-helping people connect what they know (their heads) to why they care (their hearts) to what they can do (their hands)! ewn.erdc.dren.mil/podcasts/epi...

📢 We're looking to speak to people from UK companies in roles that could influence their company's energy supply. E.g. estate managers, CSR / sustainability related roles, directors or owners of small companies etc.

Exciting to see the variety of people booking #BCConf2025! We value bringing disciplines and sectors together through our conferences to exchange ideas and foster connections; #BCConf2025 will have plenty of opportunities for this. 👉 Book by 20 Jan for early bird rates: www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch...

🚨NEW OUTPUT🚨 We at @accessnetwork.bsky.social have created a definition of environmental social science! "Environmental social science (ESS) is the (systematic) study of the interrelationship between three dynamic components: People, the social environment, and the natural (non-human) environment"

The Behavioural Science Unit in Public Health Wales has issued the first issue of 'Bitesize BeSci' a great new quarterly bulletin aimed at sharing resources, info and case studies in behavioural science. Here's a link sway.cloud.microsoft/yWJTuJ5eDwZ4...

Have you booked yet for #BCConf2025? Just like our last conference, #BCConf2025 will advance attendees' understanding of behaviour change, providing insight & inspiration that can be applied to your own context. 👉 Early bird rates end 20 Jan: www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch... @susanmichie.bsky.social

❗ CLOSING THIS WEEK – Reminder that applications for this postdoctoral behavioural researcher post based at @ucl-cbc.bsky.social with @susanmichie.bsky.social and Professor Jo Hart, closes on the 30th November.

Excited for the UKSBM Early Career Network webinar on ‘Cross Sector Working in Behavioural Science: Insights and Opportunities' with BR-UK's Dr Jo Davan Wetton as the keynote speaker 🌟 📅12pm Thursday 5th December 2024. Sign up using the link below: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/6dc609...

Having set up a #BehSci starter pack, I've now begun a list of accounts I follow and have pinned it to my account - in case of interest. I will grow it over time ...

Important to combine tractable research questions with a complex systems approach to conceptualising problems & their solutions or mitigations. This paper is definitely worth reading.