Decision Insights for Business & Society (UBC-DIBS) is pleased to release our 2023-2024 Annual Report, which describes our recent work across three pillars:
- Our Behavioural & Decision Science Research Projects use the scientific method and an interdisciplinary approach to build and test theories of decision-making and behaviour in the lab, online, and in the field. We collaborate with partners in the public, private, and non-profit sectors to apply research insights to real-world problems.
- 2023-2024 Featured Project: UBC-DIBS partnered with the Planetary Healthcare Lab (PHcL) and Vancouver Coastal Health on three projects encouraging healthy, sustainable food choices among different groups of people in healthcare settings.
- Our Behavioural Insights Training Programs help working professionals develop and practice the BI knowledge and skills to tackle problems and create positive behavioural change by designing behaviourally-informed solutions, rigorously evaluating solutions, and using BI ethically.
- 2023-2024 Featured Project: We celebrated the graduation of 17 BI practitioners! Working with partner organizations, student teams completed projects tackling issues including organ donation, appliance recycling, program uptake and evaluation, and regulation compliance.
- Our Behavioural Insights Events & Resources support a growing interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral BI community that connects academic researchers, policymakers, executives, and BI enthusiasts and experts across the public, non-profit, and private sectors in British Columbia and beyond.
- 2023-2024 Featured Project: We prioritized making our BI Wiki inclusive and accessible. After completing accesibility audits, we added image alt text, increased colour contrast, switched to more readable fonts, added closed captioning to podcast episodes, and are in the midst of adding written transcripts for podcast episodes. We also created new wiki page on anti-racist, Indigenized behavioural science.