🧠 This week’s research highlight: Applying an implementation science lens to understand physician-level variation in patient length of stay in internal medicine. Co-authored by our Co-Director Prof Fabi Lorencatto. 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🦠 Interested in behavioural science for infection disease prevention and control - and the role that AI can play in this? 💻 Don't miss this webinar by two of our Associates, Dr Janna Hastings and Dr Kristina Curtis, on 21 October. Details and sign up below 👇

📢 Job opportunity from @mcbc-unimelb.bsky.social for an internationally recognised academic leader to serve as Director, to enhance their research capacity, education programs & engagement initiatives. 🗓 Deadline: 29 Oct 2025 🔗 Apply: unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/broadbean_ex... #BehSci

Keen to grow your skills & knowledge in #BehaviourChange? 🌍 Dates for your diary for our training courses & events 👇 To join our intermediate course next year, you’ll need to complete the introductory course first - the next starts in October 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/behavi...

🤖 Could robots support us as we age? As part of #WorldAlzMonth, @viviantonop.bsky.social & @drchrysikou.bsky.social discuss how smart technologies can enhance independence in later life. 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-...#WorldAlzMonth,@uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social #UCLDementia

How can organisations bring about change to help reduce stress, promote respect & foster balance? 🌿 MSc Behaviour Change students Nicole Jiang & Aisling Nuttall, with Prof Leslie Gutman, explored this in partnership with Mindful Business Charter as part of their dissertation Read their blog 👇

Our Research Culture team are showcasing work today at the International Research Culture Conference #IRCC2025. You can find out more about the project and view their poster on our website 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch...

Congrats to our 2025 learners for completing our Intermediate Course 'Applied Principles & Practice of Behaviour Change'! Thanks for your excellent engagement & enthusiasm 👏 📅 Next course: 6–10 July 2026 (bookings open later this year) 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch... #CBCITP @susanmichie.bsky.social

✨ It's the final day of our Intermediate Behaviour Change course! Talks this morning from Leslie Gutman, Sadie Boniface & Lisa Zhang showed how the BCW toolkit can be applied to real-world challenges. This afternoon: participant presentations + Q&A with course leads. #CBCITP #BehSci #BehaviourChange

📢 Save the date! Our 10th Behaviour Change Conference, in partnership with BE-Change Knowledge Centre, takes place in Lisbon, 17-19 June 2026. 🌍 Join us to be part of an international community applying behaviour change to tackle global challenges. 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-change/conference

Today sees the launch of UCL's new Sustainability Plan (2025-2035), which provides a bold and measurable roadmap for climate action, nature restoration, waste reduction, education, and research. 🌍 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable/...

🌍 Welcome to our 2025 Intermediate Course cohort! 36 participants from 12 countries across 4 continents, working on topics from climate change to transport. We're looking forward to supporting you in applying behaviour change principles to your area of work! #CBCITP #BehSci @susanmichie.bsky.social

This summer was the UK’s hottest according to @metoffice.gov.uk 🌡️ Our Research Fellow Maggie Yang tested if social norms could reduce reliance on office air conditioning. 🎥 Watch our video to find out what worked & why it matters. 👉 Read more: bppblog.com/2025/06/10/a... @susanmichie.bsky.social

This matters not just for vaccines & health campaigns, but also as health systems move further into digital tools & apps. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Trust (or lack of it) shapes how people respond to public health. In our latest review in Social Science & Medicine, we found that distrust of “elites”(aka politicians, scientists, health professionals) doesn’t just affect individual choices.

📢Upcoming talk on 'Researching through Design'. 📅 19 Sept, 12–1 Dr Alison Thomson will share the value of a design-led approach in eliciting lived experience and developing creative solutions when designing interventions. 🔗Find out more & register: www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch...

📍At #EHPS2025? Catch members of the CBC on Thurs 28 Aug: 🕚 11:00: Making ontologies useful & usable for behaviour change research 🕒 15:00: Translating behavioural science advice into policy during a public health emergency: a behavioural perspective We hope to see you there! @susanmichie.bsky.social

🌍 How can we use behaviour change to tackle real-world challenges? See how our Introductory Course uses sustainability examples to bring behaviour change to life 👇 www.linkedin.com/pulse/explor... 📅 Next course starts 6 October - sign up: www.futurelearn.com/courses/beha... @susanmichie.bsky.social

🧠 New paper, mapping measures from the Science of Behaviour Change repository to the Mechanism of Action Ontology. This study provides more precise guidance for behavioural researchers when selecting measures of mechanisms of action. 👉https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjhp.70015

Bluesky 📢 Join our online OptICS workshop on 6 Oct! We're inviting professionals supporting heart health and mental wellbeing, incl. GPs, nurses, care coordinators, ICS staff, social care & allied health. 🌐 Sign up: shorturl.at/LtFZA #OptICSWorkshop #IntegratedCare

📢 Don’t miss out – early bird rates for our new advanced module close soon! 📅 22–23 Oct, 12:30–16:30 (UK time) Learn to better select & specify behaviour change techniques with experts from @hbcproject.bsky.social 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch... @martamarques.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social

2️⃣ Why is generalizability so tricky? Because it has: – Many dimensions (population, setting, outcome, etc.) – Complex interactions between them – Dynamic change over time 👇

🧵 Can you predict whether behavioral interventions will work in new contexts? … probably not, right? In our new paper with @dggoldst.bsky.social @dilipsoman.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social, we dive into how to better understand and improve generalizability. rdcu.be/ewD2z Summary👇

🚨A new paper presents evidence that the average effectiveness of a 'nudge' (choice architecture intervention) is smaller than often reported and that there is substantial heterogeneity in their effects. 🔗 Read the open-access article here: www.nature.com/articles/s44... @susanmichie.bsky.social

An ontological framework for organising and describing behaviours: The Human Behaviour Ontology, wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-2... - an important new paper for all behavioural scientists, allowing a coherent, extensive, computer-readable representation of behaviour in all its complexities.

🔍 Are you an early career behavioural researcher? Our Accelerator proposals offer up to £50,000 for innovative projects! 💡 Perfect for kickstarting your research journey. Applications open July 1st—closing August 12th, 2025. Get ready to apply! #ECR #Innovation #BRUKFunding

🤖 Explore AI in Behavioural Research! Funding available to advance how best to integrate human and AI contributions in behavioural research. Are you ready to innovate? Applications open July 1st, 2025! #AIResearch #BRUKFunding #Innovation usher.ed.ac.uk/behavioural-...

Just a few spaces left on our Applied Principles & Practice of Behaviour Change course. 💻 Online & interactive 📅 8-12 Sept What makes it so enjoyable? Insightful discussions, small-group mentoring & a brilliant mix of participants. Join us? 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch... @susanmichie.bsky.social

📊 Project Proposals Open! Up to £300,000 for behavioural research projects on AI, knowledge integration, & explaining variation in effective interventions. EOIs due July 31st. 🌟 #ResearchFunding #BRUK

Curious about #CoDesign? Join our Research Fellow @dramandamoore-cbc.bsky.social at QMUL for a guest lecture by Dr Ashfaq Chauhan on engaging diverse communities in co-design & applying it across healthcare. 📅 Mon 7 July | 13:30-14:30 📍 In-person at QMUL, Whitechapel 📧 RSVP: [email protected]

🎉 Congratulations to our Co-Director Fabiana Lorencatto on her promotion to Professor of Behavioural and Implementation Sciences! A fantastic achievement - we're excited for what the future holds for Prof Lorencatto and the CBC. 🔗 Read more: www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch... @susanmichie.bsky.social

I've just launched the latest episode in the Unlocking Behaviour Change podcast series, and it is the very first public airing of a new general framework for understanding and analysing real-world decisions - called FACET. So do check it out and leave comments. www.podbean.com/ep/pb-tgudh-...

The Human Behaviour Change Project 'Prediction Tool' has just had a revamp. It uses interpretable machine learning applied to rich ontologised data extracted from ~500 RCTs to predict smoking cessation outcomes in novel scenarios. Here's a link to a video about the tool youtu.be/fUvfXmeZhnM

Behind the Screen: We quiz Dr Lucy Porter on everything from course highlights to her go-to snack as we get ready for our popular intermediate course! 📅 8–12 Sept | 💻 Online 🔍 Apply behavioural science to real-world challenges 👉 Last few spaces: www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch... @susanmichie.bsky.social

Please share: @robertjwest.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social @jannahastings.bsky.social @carolinacsilva.bsky.social @mayabraun.bsky.social @martamarques.bsky.social @mindandmatter.bsky.social @ucl-cbc.bsky.social

🌱 Which behaviour change techniques are most effective in encouraging sustainable food consumption? New systematic review just published in Appetite by MSc Behaviour Change alumna Anna Tirion: 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🎉 Congratulations to our latest cohort on completing 'Behaviour Change Interventions: Introductory Principles & Practice'! Over the last 4 weeks, you covered COM-B, BCW & behaviour change techniques. Thanks for your engagement - we hope you enjoyed it! @susanmichie.bsky.social

📢 New from @behaviourresuk.bsky.social: a must-read report on the state of behavioural research in the UK and guidance for strengthening the field moving forward. 🔗 era.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/ha... @susanmichie.bsky.social ‪‪

🆕 Our new paper is out today in @biomedcentral.bsky.social‬ Public Health! We reviewed 30 studies across OECD countries to understand how attitudes like distrust in institutions might shape how people engage with public health efforts. We found that...

We're proud to share new research led by MSc Behaviour Change alumna Marilena Schnorrenberg. They used the COM-B model to explore the barriers & facilitators to engage with carbon footprint reports via banking apps. 🔗 Read the paper: www.emerald.com/insight/cont...

📢 New advanced training alert! Join experts from the @hbcproject.bsky.social for a full-day online course on improving methods for selecting & specifying behaviour change techniques using the Behaviour Change Techniques Ontology 🗓️ 22 & 23 October, 12:30-4:30pm 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch...

Read this article on our ESRC funded research into the 2024 summer riots and sign up for our webinar on June 10th at 11am to hear more detail about our findings and their implications. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🎉 May was full of insights, events & inspiring conversations! Here's what we’ve been up to ⬇️ Lucy Porter & Zoe Upton answered questions at the peat-free gardening stand at RHS Chelsea Show. Learn more about Zoe's PhD on the transition to peat-free: 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch...

'Behind the screen' with Dr Danielle D'Lima: read Danielle's reflections on our intermediate training course, advice for future students, and importantly, her go-to snack for the week! 👉 www.linkedin.com/pulse/behavi... #BehSci #BCW #COMB #UCL #BehavioralScience @susanmichie.bsky.social

Heading to the Cheltenham Science Festival? On 8 June our Research Fellow @ayselisa.bsky.social will be joining @markmiodownik.bsky.social and team to talk about The Big Toilet Project, the the world’s biggest toilet training study. 🔗 www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/the-b...

🔍 Want to keep working while studying? Meet Oli - a management consultant who did exactly that, applying insights from our Behaviour Change MSc directly to his work. 🗓 Applications (non-visa) close 29 Aug, find out more: www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/study/p... 📖 Read Oli's story: www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/study/s...

We’re lining up another fantastic team of presenters & mentors for our 2025 Intermediate Training Course! Join us online from 8-12 Sept to deepen your skills in applying behavioural science to practical problems. ⏰ Early bird registration ends 31 May: www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch...

In case you missed it... Prof West's #BCConf2025 keynote on "Achieving Behaviour Change Through Communications" is packed with practical insights for anyone designing behaviour change interventions as well as comms professionals. 🎥 Watch it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=odIE... @robertjwest.bsky.social

From MSc to BBC: Meet Dr Ayşe Lisa Allison A graduate of our Behaviour Change MSc, @ayselisa.bsky.social now researches sustainable solutions for absorbent hygiene products. She recently appeared on BBC One's Sunday Morning Live to discuss The Big Toilet Project, a global citizen science study.

⏳ 2 weeks left to get the early bird rate for our intermediate course on Applied Principles & Practice of Behaviour Change! Over half the places are already booked. 🎥 Hear Claire’s experience of the course in this clip 📅 Online, 8–12 Sept 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch... @susanmichie.bsky.social