Let’s keep in touch: thinking about university communications from a BI perspective
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]
Behavioural Insights
Can behavioural insights help students make better-informed financial decisions?
By Susannah Hume, Zoe Claymore and Vanessa Todman | The long–anticipated Augar Review was finally released last month, and raises many questions about the future of Higher Education (HE) funding. The review recommends, inter — [Read More]
Think about staff as well as students when designing behavioural interventions to address the BAME attainment gap
By Pri Perera, Research Associate | An unacceptable gap exists between the attainment of different student groups across UK Higher Education institutions (HEIs). In particular, — [Read More]
The Importance of Social Capital
Vanessa Todman, Senior Behavioural Insights Adviser | As we head into the holiday period, many of our first year students will be spending the next — [Read More]
Welcome to King’s! Reflecting on the importance of a good start at university
Joe Pollard, Research Associate | Welcome to King’s! Reflecting on the importance of a good start at university Transitioning from school to university can be — [Read More]
How do we raise parents’ aspirations for their children?
By Eleri Burnhill, King’s College London | Widening participation initiatives aim to raise the aspirations of students from underrepresented backgrounds to progress to higher education, — [Read More]
Reflections on the Behavioural Insights and Student Success Training
Nasima Bashar, King’s College London | In higher education, interventions supported by behavioural insights (BI) can aid student decision-making and increase student engagement and sense — [Read More]
Making the grade
Susannah Hume and Michael Sanders, King’s College London and Behavioural Insights Team | In the KCLxBIT project we asked respondents at two time points what grades they — [Read More]
Thank you, teachers!
Susannah Hume, King’s College London and Behavioural Insights Team | Friday 22 June was Thank a Teacher Day. For many people, one thing they could thank their teachers for — [Read More]
Introducing the King’s ACES framework
By Vanessa Todman, King’s College London | The What Works team (and its predecessor KCLxBIT) have now conducted thirteen RCTs, a series of workshops and — [Read More]