If behaviour has so many influences, which ones are easiest to change?

Not all behaviours are equal - some are low hanging fruit, others require much more effort to change. Prioritisation is key to identifying which beha...

Intuitions and assumptions are not always reliable guides for designing behavioural interventions. In this post, we share some learnings from times wh...

2020 vividly illustrated how behaviour change can be used to address wicked problems. BehaviourWorks has responded by developing a new range of traini...

Systems, actor, process and stakeholder mapping can be a vital step in helping us identify who/what is part of the problem - and who may be part of th...

With the Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre and the Wyndham City Council, our PhD candidates conducted a Hackathon on how to design solutions to in...

In the 10th round of data collection, our Survey of COVID-19 Responses to Understand Behaviour (SCRUB) project probed the financial experiences of Aus...

Practice Reviews seek to capture and collate insights from those who have direct experience in or of the problem under investigation. Their insights c...

Almost 90% of Australians believe that they can follow COVID-19 related rules and regulations for as long, or longer, than is currently requested by a...

A third of the worlds’ food is wasted each year. BWA researcher Mark Boulet recently published a paper tackling food waste in households.

The latest results from the Survey of COVID-19 Responses to Understand Behaviour (SCRUB) project reveal that more than a third of Australians with col...

A third of the world's food is wasted each year. BWA researcher Mark Boulet recently published a paper tackling food waste in households.

Coronavirus outbreaks in Australia’s eastern states and in New Zealand are leading to a greater compliance in COVID-safe behaviours by Australians, th...

BehaviourWorks Australia conducted six behaviour change trials as part of a VMIA Patient Safety Research and Innovation Program. The results show that...

Since the pandemic hit in March, our behavioural experts have been sought out by the media to provide expert opinion on the vital role of behaviour ch...

Human relationships with nature – how we perceive, relate to and interact with the natural environment – have gained increasing prominence in the acad...

A practical guide on how to use Rapid Reviews to gather evidence for better decision-making.

A survey with 1,084 adults in April this year on physical activity and sedentary behaviour during the pandemic found that the majority of Australians ...

Our behaviour change micro-credential is up and running and attracting professionals around the world.

Behaviour Change Bootcamps offer intensive, group-based training to influential groups within organisations, allowing them to become skilled advocates...

As we continue to be inundated with reports of COVID-19 cases, recommendations and the latest updates on restrictions, SCRUB has been collecting data ...

Just because plastic avoidance is a bit different now doesn't mean it can't be part of the new normal. In The Conversation, Kim Borg offers suggestion...

When large numbers of people need to be contacted, we're often asked: should we send emails or letters? Well ... it depends on the factors at play. Th...

Monash Lens focuses on the remarkable work that two of our Research Fellows have done to help policymakers find the right messages to communicate thro...

Data from wave 3 of our COVID-19 Responses to Understand Behaviour (SCRUB) study show how protective behaviours, such as hand-washing, are dynamicall...

What can US prisoners teach us about coming out of lockdown in a way that also breaks down our mental and emotional constraints?

Waves 1 and 2 of the Survey of COVID-19 Responses to Understand Behaviour (SCRUB) project are giving policymakers actionable insights into public atti...

Originally published by Apolitical, this compelling 'how to' by our health specialist, A/Prof Peter Bragge, provides some handy tips on how to make yo...

The Australian Council of Graduate Research (ACGR) has awarded BehaviourWorks the Award for Excellence in Promoting Industry Engagement in Graduate Re...

To address the emotional, cognitive and behavioural manifestations of the unexpected context that is COVID-19, we need to recognise, accept and work w...

What makes some people behave sensibly in a time of crisis and others go off in strange directions? It all comes down to personality traits, says PhD ...

In times of crisis, such as COVID-19, researchers argue that using labels such as 'social distancing' can make people feel even more isolated and anxi...

With supermarket shelves being stripped bare due to panic buying, two of our leading behavioural scientists talk about the psychology of this behaviou...

Victoria's new waste policy came into effect in Feb/March 2020. Will it be effective? BehaviourWorks waste experts, Jenni Downes, explores the pros an...

At BehaviourWorks Australia, we're committed to improving behaviour change literacy. In this new series, we provide specific tips on how to achieve de...

In wake of yet another major family violence incident, our researchers pen another important article in The Conversation on the need to shift attitude...

Stuff Ups and Epic Fails

The Australian bushfire crisis represents a 'critical moment' to use behavioural science to encourage individuals to act for nature.

As a new year begins, it is worth reflecting on our collective achievements as part of a broader behaviour change community.

An important new initiative of the Monash Sustainable Development Institute and McMaster University, SSE will give decision-makers clearer evidence of...

PhD candidates enrolled in the world-first Behaviour Change Graduate Research Industry Partnership program present their initial ideas and research to...

A series of interviews with Australian fashion and textile sector industry experts has revealed that while many are employing sustainable business pra...

A series where we talk to some of Australia's leading or emerging behaviour change practitioners. This edition with The Shannon Company's Lily Tidy.

Culture and behaviour change

Australia's waste crisis point by point

Behaviour change platforms, such as apps and websites, are being eveloped to elicit a plethora of different behaviour change activities, from promotin...

How do we stop overprescribing opioids?

The Dark Arts of manipulation for gain

One of the achievements of behavioural economics was to overhaul the view of humans as selfish and rational creatures. But another assumption has gone...

An intervention to reduce Islamophobia

Behavioural research digital health

Communicating behavioural science

Construal Level Theory describes the relationship between psychological distance and the extent to which people's thinking is concrete or abstract. T...

Behavioural experiments are mind games - let's play

Dr Brea Kunstler has been 'working the room'; leading discussions on the ways in which physiotherapists can use behavioural insights to encourage peop...

Around 40% of what you do is performed everyday in the same location, and around 70% of this is done without thought or deliberation. Unfortunately, t...

The OECD recently released a report on how Behavioural Insights can deliver better policies. One chapter was co-authored by our own Morgan Tear.

Effective health service boards keep our hospital systems running. But how do board members learn the skills needed to be effective and challenge them...

Knowing HOW to change behaviour isn't easy. Thankfully, Susan Michie and her colleagues introduced a framework to help researchers and practitioners s...

Nick Fawkner and Stefan Kaufman believe that it is important to be able to measure how government organisations generate public value, so they underto...

Websites that encourage good behaviours are often less effective than websites that encourage purchases.  A new paper sets out to address this by givi...

All our biases in one easy wheel. Take a spin.

Following a 2018 roundtable on “Research Impact in Policy” at the 2018 Global Evidence and Implementation Summit, Wiley Publishing invited BehaviourWo...

The potential of using wearable technology to tackle global health issues like diabetes will now be explored thanks a $2.15M grant awarded by the Aust...

Understanding prosocial behaviours is important with respect to tackling United Nations Sustainable Development Goals; in particular reducing inequali...

Launched in 2018 and supported by Monash University and industry partners, the Behaviour Change Graduate Research Industry Partnership Program (GRIP) ...

Many Labs 2 is the latest in a series of international projects to see if influential psychology experiments can be reproduced.  Almost 200 psychologi...

We do serious behaviour change. Seriously.

Incontinence is a widespread medical issue which affects millions worldwide, but often not discussed because of embarrassment or social stigma.  The C...

A new book entitled, From Roadside to Recovery: The Story of the Victorian State Trauma System, details how a grim statistic – 1034 – was a catalyst f...

Recognised as the first model of behaviour change specifically designed to help public administrators, BehaviourWorks’ INSPIRE framework describes sev...

Many human behaviours are being targeted by game-makers; healthy eating, medicine, coding, buying goods, using social media and education. BehaviourWo...

Increasing the uptake of e-services is critical for government agencies like VicRoads, which handles a wide range of vehicle-related tasks such as ren...

A paper on the impact of Rural Retirement Migration explores the issues of retirees choosing to relocate to rural locations and the impact that this h...

The Australian Government has created a standard medical record - My Health Record (MHR) - which contains health information that can be accessed by a...

It’s estimated that dishonesty costs society hundreds of millions of dollars each year. BehaviourWorks Australia’s Nick Faulkner reviewed the literatu...

Funny how comedy can change us

Sustainability Victoria has come up with a video campaign – the Love-a-list Challenge – to highlight how much of our bins contain avoidable food waste...

With Professor Dave Griggs, BehaviourWorks Director, Liam Smith, has proposed a new system of giving. Under this system, anyone on a high annual incom...

We went through a few trials and tribulations on 17 May.

Behaviour change needs a new cohort of PhD qualified researchers capable of working with industry. Monash University's Graduate Research Industry Part...

BehaviourWorks Australia, working with the Monash Sustainable Development Institute, is delivering the first-ever specialised behaviour change unit. ...

In his new book Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Changed Our World, Andrew Leigh puts forward the case that randomised trials are sorely lacking i...

BWA presents some new behavioural tools at the Australasian Environmental Law Enforcement and Regulators Network Conference.

Healthcare decisions can be complex. There are several contributing factors and multiple treatment options, which can place patients in complicated, c...

Obikes aren't the problem - it's our behaviours.