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The importance of project pilots – reflections from our online decision-making module

November 15, 2022 Jack Mollart-Solity 2

By Nadia Chechlińska, Senior Behavioural Insights Adviser In the Summer of 2021, What Works carried out online interviews with 32 working-class girls in Year 12 — [Read More]

Driving social mobility through behavioural insights

July 13, 2021 Hannah Ogundipe Akinbode 0

By Saloni Bhatia, Researcher at In Diverse Company.   Behavioural insights are learnings from the field of social and behavioural science, that are used to both — [Read More]

Test, Learn, Adapt- What Might Formula One be able to teach Higher Education?

January 6, 2021 Vanessa Todman 0

Higher Education has a lot it can learn from other sectors. After a difficult year for everyone, Vanessa Todman explores what Formula One may be — [Read More]

Can Nudge Plus help us encourage sustainable pro-social behaviour change?

October 15, 2020 Vanessa Todman 0

By Sanchayan Banerjee, PhD student at the London School of Economics and Political Science * | Nudges are low-cost, high-impact behavioural strategies that encourage people to — [Read More]

Why social capital and belonging are interlinked – the importance of cultural capital

October 8, 2020 Vanessa Todman 0

By Vanessa Todman, Head of What Works | Vanessa Todman argues that in understanding sense of belonging and social capital of university students we need — [Read More]

Why you should read ‘The Book of Why’?

July 7, 2020 Vanessa Todman 0

By Nadia Chechlińska, Research Associate| We all know ‘correlation does not imply causation’ – but how do we imply causation? In the second of her — [Read More]

Integrating experimental design into everyday practice

April 22, 2020 Vanessa Todman 0

By Salome Gongadze, Research Associate| Here at What Works, we never miss an opportunity to insert a little behavioural insights experimentation into the rest of — [Read More]

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]

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]

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  • The importance of project pilots – reflections from our online decision-making module
  • Reflections on the King’s Wellbeing Survey – A student intern’s perspective
  • The science and art of asking good questions in qualitative research
  • A sense of belonging – what it means for higher education institutions
  • Sanctuary Scholarships, unlocking access to education for refugee students

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  • Behavioural Insights (25)
  • Evaluation (22)
  • HE Access trials (6)
  • Lessons learnt (19)
  • Methods toolkit (10)
  • Project delivery (19)
  • Qualitative Research (8)
  • Randomised Controlled Trials (9)
  • Student Engagement (20)
  • Student Success trials (9)
  • Surveys (7)
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