Reaching out to Kent: listening to the community and designing a new programme
By Ali Glossop, On Purpose Associate in the Widening Participation Team| Where you live is a contributing factor to how likely you will be to — [Read More]
Project delivery
A day in the life of an Evaluation and Research Adviser
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]
All I want for Christmas is a Theory of Change
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
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?
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]
In 2019, I would like to see Higher Education learning more from other sectors
Vanessa Todman, Senior Behavioural Insights Adviser | Last week, our Associate Director Susannah launched a series of blogs celebrating the anniversary of the set-up of — [Read More]
The Unintended Benefits of Letting Interventions Go Off-Piste
By the What Works Intern | Recently the What Works Department, along with some help from our friends at BIT, started running an intervention offering — [Read More]
What did the students think? Feedback from our trial participants
Maija Koponen & Kim Hall, King’s College London | When talking about our project, we’re often asked how students felt about our frequent nudging – — [Read More]
Research Protocols: the importance of a plan
By Lucy Makinson, Behavioural Insights Team, and Susannah Hume, King’s College London & Behavioural Insights Team | When running any research, preparation is key. One — [Read More]
The whats and whys of RCTs (Part 2)
By Susannah Hume, King’s College London and Behavioural Insights Team | This is Part 2 of a 2-part blog series on using RCTs to evaluate — [Read More]