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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · 6d

📢 Job opportunity from @mcbc-unimelb.bsky.social
for an internationally recognised academic leader to serve as Director, to enhance their research capacity, education programs & engagement initiatives.
🗓 Deadline: 29 Oct 2025
🔗 Apply: unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/broadbean_ex...
#BehSci

Director of Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change

Position Number: 3528665 Location: Parkville Role type: Full-time; Professorial appointment continuing Department/School: Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences Salary: Level D/E remuneration plus...

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · 16d

Keen to grow your skills & knowledge in #BehaviourChange? 🌍
Dates for your diary for our training courses & events 👇
To join our intermediate course next year, you’ll need to complete the introductory course first - the next starts in October
👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/behavi...

2025 and 2026 dates for your diary from the UCL Centre for Behaviour Change. Introductory, intermediate and advanced courses, and the Behaviour Change Conference 2026.

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · 18d

🤖 Could robots support us as we age?
As part of #WorldAlzMonth, @viviantonop.bsky.social & @drchrysikou.bsky.social discuss how smart technologies can enhance independence in later life.
👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-...
@uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social
#UCLDementia

Quote from Dr Vivi Antonopoulou, UCL Centre for Behaviour Change, as part of World Alzheimer's Month 2025: "We are interested in understanding how people respond to living with a robot in their home. Then we want to take this study further and design robots specifically for people living with dementia. That may include changes to the robot’s communication style or its ability to provide memory prompts for people with dementia."

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · 18d

🔗 Find out more about the MSc Behaviour Change: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...

🔗 And the Behavioural Insights Exchange, which enables our Masters' students to work with an organisation to apply what they have learnt to a real-world issue: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...

Behaviour Change MSc

This postgraduate degree in behaviour change centres around the systematic application of behaviour change theory and methods to design, implement and evaluate interventions, primarily using the Behav...

www.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · 18d

How can organisations bring about change to help reduce stress, promote respect & foster balance? 🌿
MSc Behaviour Change students Nicole Jiang & Aisling Nuttall, with Prof Leslie Gutman, explored this in partnership with Mindful Business Charter as part of their dissertation
Read their blog 👇

LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 20d

Professionals in stressful jobs are at risk of burnout..

Individual solutions such as mindfulness programs ignore the systemic stressors of organisational structures.

How to fix organisational culture and reduce burnout - LSE Business Review

Efforts to address burnout often involve individual solutions, which ignore the systemic nature of the problem. The focus must be on organisational change.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks for sharing! If you'd like to find out more about this work you can follow us and @hbcproject.bsky.social 🙂

UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · 22d

Our Research Culture team are showcasing work today at the International Research Culture Conference #IRCC2025. You can find out more about the project and view their poster on our website 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch...

Huner Erdinch stands by their research poster at the International Research Culture Conference 2025.

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · 24d

Congrats to our 2025 learners for completing our Intermediate Course 'Applied Principles & Practice of Behaviour Change'! Thanks for your excellent engagement & enthusiasm 👏
📅 Next course: 6–10 July 2026 (bookings open later this year)
👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch...
#CBCITP @susanmichie.bsky.social

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · 27d

✨ It's the final day of our Intermediate Behaviour Change course!
Talks this morning from Leslie Gutman, Sadie Boniface & Lisa Zhang showed how the BCW toolkit can be applied to real-world challenges.
This afternoon: participant presentations + Q&A with course leads.
#CBCITP #BehSci #BehaviourChange

Behaviour Change Wheel Case Studies. Photos of speakers: Prof Leslie Gutman (Director of MSc Behaviour Change, Faculty Vice-Dean of EDI). Lisa Zhang (CBC Research Assistant, PhD Candidate, Uni of Bath). Dr Sadie Boniface (Research Lead and Principal Research Fellow).

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · 29d

@susanmichie.bsky.social @martamarques.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @be-change.bsky.social Please share 🙏 @behaviourresuk.bsky.social @hbcproject.bsky.social @ehps.bsky.social @nihr-pru-bass.bsky.social

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · 29d

📢 Save the date! Our 10th Behaviour Change Conference, in partnership with BE-Change Knowledge Centre, takes place in Lisbon, 17-19 June 2026.
🌍 Join us to be part of an international community applying behaviour change to tackle global challenges.
👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-change/conference

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · Sep 9

🔗 If you'd like to find out about the CBC's research on sustainability, please visit our website: www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch...

Climate and sustainability

Using behavioural science to help tackle the pressing issues to protect our planet.

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · Sep 9

@susanmichie.bsky.social, CBC Director & UCL Sustainability Committee Member, commented:
"Behaviour change is fundamental to achieving sustainability goals. We look forward to supporting UCL by sharing our expertise in applying behavioural science to complex sustainability challenges."

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · Sep 9

Today sees the launch of UCL's new Sustainability Plan (2025-2035), which provides a bold and measurable roadmap for climate action, nature restoration, waste reduction, education, and research. 🌍
👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable/...

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · Sep 8

🌍 Welcome to our 2025 Intermediate Course cohort! 36 participants from 12 countries across 4 continents, working on topics from climate change to transport. We're looking forward to supporting you in applying behaviour change principles to your area of work! #CBCITP #BehSci
@susanmichie.bsky.social

A warm welcome to our 2025 intermediate cohort! A globe is made up of words of different topic areas, such as nutrition, stroke, infection control, cancer. 12 flags surround the globe, representing the different countries participants are from.

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · Sep 4

This summer was the UK’s hottest according to @metoffice.gov.uk 🌡️ Our Research Fellow Maggie Yang tested if social norms could reduce reliance on office air conditioning. 🎥 Watch our video to find out what worked & why it matters.
👉 Read more: bppblog.com/2025/06/10/a...
@susanmichie.bsky.social

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Dr Alison R. McKinlay @amckinlay.bsky.social · Sep 1

This matters not just for vaccines & health campaigns, but also as health systems move further into digital tools & apps.

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How populist-aligned views are reflected in people's accounts of the receipt of public health interventions: a systematic review of qualitative studies

Recent evidence suggests an increasing backlash towards government-led public health interventions in the areas of vaccination, climate change, sexual…

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Dr Alison R. McKinlay @amckinlay.bsky.social · Sep 1

Trust (or lack of it) shapes how people respond to public health.

In our latest review in Social Science & Medicine, we found that distrust of “elites”(aka politicians, scientists, health professionals) doesn’t just affect individual choices.

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · Sep 1

📢Upcoming talk on 'Researching through Design'.
📅 19 Sept, 12–1
Dr Alison Thomson will share the value of a design-led approach in eliciting lived experience and developing creative solutions when designing interventions.
🔗Find out more & register: www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch...

Webinar: Researching through Design

The Co-design for Behaviour Change Network is delighted to invite you to their first talk on 'Researching through Design'.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · Aug 27

📍At #EHPS2025? Catch members of the CBC on Thurs 28 Aug:
🕚 11:00: Making ontologies useful & usable for behaviour change research
🕒 15:00: Translating behavioural science advice into policy during a public health emergency: a behavioural perspective
We hope to see you there!
@susanmichie.bsky.social

Speech bubble with location pin "Catch us (UCL Centre for Behaviour Change) at EHPS2025, Groningen".

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · Aug 27

🌍 How can we use behaviour change to tackle real-world challenges?
See how our Introductory Course uses sustainability examples to bring behaviour change to life 👇 www.linkedin.com/pulse/explor...
📅 Next course starts 6 October - sign up: www.futurelearn.com/courses/beha...
@susanmichie.bsky.social

Sustainability & Behaviour Change: A look inside our introductory course

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · Aug 20

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · Aug 20

🧠 New paper, mapping measures from the Science of Behaviour Change repository to the Mechanism of Action Ontology. This study provides more precise guidance for behavioural researchers when selecting measures of mechanisms of action.
👉https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjhp.70015

New paper in British Journal of Health Psychology: Measuring processes of change in behavioural interventions:
Insights gained from linking mechanisms of action to associated measures
Authors: Paulina M. Schenk, Susan Michie, Marie Johnston, Talea Cornelius

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NIHR PRU Behavioural and Social Sciences @nihr-pru-bass.bsky.social · Aug 13

Bluesky 📢 Join our online OptICS workshop on 6 Oct!
We're inviting professionals supporting heart health and mental wellbeing, incl. GPs, nurses, care coordinators, ICS staff, social care & allied health.

🌐 Sign up: shorturl.at/LtFZA
#OptICSWorkshop #IntegratedCare

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UCL Centre for Behaviour Change @ucl-cbc.bsky.social · Aug 13

📢 Don’t miss out – early bird rates for our new advanced module close soon!
📅 22–23 Oct, 12:30–16:30 (UK time)
Learn to better select & specify behaviour change techniques with experts from @hbcproject.bsky.social
👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch...
@martamarques.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social

UCL Centre for Behaviour Change New Course on improving methods for selecting and specifying behaviour change techniques. 22 & 23 October 12:30-16:30 UK time, online.

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