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...

In the first part of a new series ‘Little known gems of behaviour science’, we review Spark Wave's ‘Ten Conditions for Change' - a new framework for c...

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.

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

The first part of a new series exploring what researchers and practitioners can learn from entrepreneurs.

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.

A selection of behaviour change approaches that go beyond simply providing information to engaging audiences through creativity and humour.

Australia's waste crisis point by point

A 'Nudgeathon' on restorative justice

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?

Scammers and manipulation

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...

Interventions for better diagnosis

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...

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

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

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...

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...

12 researchers. 3 days. 83,000 words. BehaviourWorks' Research Fellows take off on a writing retreat.

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...

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.

Some tips on how to form good habits and stick to them

A Behavioural guide to the Silly Season

BehaviourWorks gets busy in Brisbane

Dr Peter Bragge is part of a Monash team identifying better treatments of TBI (traumatic brain injury)

Dr Breanna Wright at the ABAA Conference

Why we're punishing our bodies for good causes

BehaviourWorks gets fast results on slow payers

Liam Smith presents behavioural science insights

Digital tricks and behavioural insights

How footy fans can shed light on fanatics

The Trolley Problem is heading our way

Are oBikes a solution or a tripping hazard?

A BWA article in the Conversation asks if big issue docos bring about change

An article on how we're getting savvy to being influenced

What does a month off the grog mean in terms of health benefits, awareness of dangerous drinking habits and cancer research? The evidence appears mixe...

Stories don't just take us away, they can bring us back to change our behaviour

Mindfulness certainly sound like the answer to many behavioural problems, particularly for kinds, but what's the evidence?

Four BWA researchers have written an article for The Conversation detailing some of the findings of a review into the best way to encouraging healthy ...

A recent episode of ABC Radio National’s The Money was devoted to online scams and the tricks that scammers use to defraud, humiliate and sometimes bl...

It promised so much – but has the self-esteem movement created a measurable rise in narcissism and a generation of selfie-snapping millennials? And is...

The inaugural Master of Environment and Sustainability course is the first cross-faculty Masters course at Monash University. It’s also the first time...

A new article reveals why Australian towns and cities don't have public squares

Can you put a value on government services? Yes you can.

An article about rental apps that are marketed as fair but are actually forcing prices up

Scientists need to get emotional to explain what they do and why it's so important

BWA embarks on a three-year project to improve patient outcomes

As political polarisation intensifies, it seems even the US flag can trigger different reactions depending on your ideology.

The more we worry about investment mistakes, the more we make (mistakes, that is)

How parents react and behave during their children’s medical treatment can affect how that child perceives stress and pain.