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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the world comes together to focus on recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, finding ways to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals is more urgent than ever. Behavioural science ...

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 ...

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 ...

This course is compulsory on the Executive MSc in Behavioural Science. This course is not available as an outside option. The course aims to introduce students to the main methodological concepts and ...

Behavioural science is brilliant at choice architecture: small cues, defaults, friction, salience. But in industry applications, it often gets over-indexed on the moment and under-indexed on the ...

Rennie Naidoo is a member of the AIS (Association for Information Systems), SAICSIT(the South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists), and ISACA (Information Systems ...