In many areas, the delivery of the UN’s mandates is linked to changing human behaviour. Behavioural science refers to an evidence-based understanding of how people actually behave, make decisions and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A whole strata of academics became akin to rock stars thanks to their ability to explain why humans behaved the way they did.

Behavioural science is the scientific study of human behaviour, and it combines research techniques from psychology and economics. The course offers an integrated training in advanced behavioural ...

A meadow grasshopper (Pseudochorthippus parallelus). This species is widespread across most of Europe and is commonly used as a model organism in evolutionary biology. If an experiment is repeated ...

Some human research will no longer be classified as a clinical trial, easing the paperwork burden, but not everyone agrees with the approach.

This course is available on the Executive MSc in Behavioural Science. This course is not available as an outside option. The course aims to introduce to students the main principles, methods, measures ...

There has been much recent scrutiny of the real-time, real world experiments that Facebook has been conducting with its users. Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) conducted by Facebook have identified ...

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Health insurers are being squeezed from two directions. The costs of providing health services are rising thanks to higher inflation and the emergence of new but costly treatments. At the same time, ...

The Noughties and early 2010s were a good time to be a behavioural scientist. At least, they were if you happened to be doing the right kind of behavioural science – the sexy kind. Pick an ...