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Are We Still Thinking Fast and Slow? – Review

April 7, 2020 Vanessa Todman 2

By Nadia Chechlińska, Research Associate| Nadia explains how, almost a decade on, ‘Thinking Fast and Slow’ is still an important text for higher education staff — [Read More]

Stuck in the Middle: Asian Students’ Sense of Belonging

March 25, 2020 Vanessa Todman 2

By Jawad Anjum, On Purpose Associate| Over the past two years, our students who identify as Asian have had significantly lower reported feelings of ‘belonging’ than — [Read More]

Contextual Admissions: A-Level Playing Field

March 6, 2020 Vanessa Todman 1

By Chiamaka Nwosu, Data & Research Analyst and Yasemin Genç, Research Associate| While it is a university’s prerogative to recruit the best talent, it has — [Read More]

A day in the life of an Evaluation and Research Adviser

February 19, 2020 Vanessa Todman 0

By Henry Woodward- Evaluation and Research Adviser| This blog is often dominated by the behavioural insights and experimental trials aspect of What Works, but it — [Read More]

Access to university for working-class students: the rural/urban divide

February 5, 2020 Vanessa Todman 2

Vanessa Todman, Head of Student Experience Research | Despite great efforts and progress in recent years, access to university is still unfair. More underrepresented students — [Read More]

All I want for Christmas is a Theory of Change

December 20, 2019 Vanessa Todman 3

By Nadia Chechlińska, Research Associate| Outreach staff are all working towards a common goal: equal opportunity of access to higher education. It’s an ambitious goal — [Read More]

2019 may have been the year of null results, but it’s moving us forward

November 22, 2019 Vanessa Todman 0

Vanessa Todman, Head of Student Experience Research and Miriam Styrnol, Senior Research and Evaluation Advisor| Null results are useful. In What Works we’re always seeking — [Read More]

Can we nudge students at university?

August 5, 2019 Vanessa Todman 1

Michael Sanders, Reader in Public Policy at the Policy Institute at King’s  | In the decade since Thaler and Sunstein’s book Nudge was published, behavioural — [Read More]

Let’s keep in touch: thinking about university communications from a BI perspective

July 22, 2019 Vanessa Todman 0

By Salome Gongadze, Behavioural Insights Intern and final year King’s student | Being an intern at What Works has caused me to start seeing everything — [Read More]

Helping working class females find their place at university

May 16, 2019 Vanessa Todman 2

Vanessa Todman, Senior Behavioural Insights Advisor | Recently, there has been a lot of interest in the impact of working-class identity on the education of — [Read More]

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