Calling DIBS Season 6
What a fantastic series of conversations we had this year! Thank you to our 16 guests who generously shared their time and insights. Thanks as well to this season’s wonderful student podcast editor, Yuan Lei.
What did we talk about this year?
Emerging Topics in BI
- Episode 112: Dave Hardisty talks about why A/B tests run on online platforms like Google and Facebook aren’t actually true experiments, and why this matters
- Episode 108: Tak Ishikawa helps us understand the recent “debate” about boosts and nudges, and why it ultimately comes down to choosing the right intervention for the situation
- Episode 101: After 15 years at ideas42, Piyush Tantia reflects on big successes, challenges, and BI opportunities ahead
Applying BI to Different Challenges
- Episode 116: Karen Smallwood talks about using BI in both her capstone project tackling organ donation from a new angle and her day job helping folks trying to prevent, prepare for, respond to, or recover from emergencies
- Episode 115: Faraz Haqqi provides a snapshot of ideas42’s projects exploring how to support workers struggling to find or keep work
- Episode 114: Katherine Flaschen explains how to tackle complex challenges like “improving educational outcomes” by using a step-by-step process and focusing on meaningful, movable, and measurable behaviours
- Episode 113: Nick Chesterley tells us about his new book, “Future-Generation Government“, which uses a behavioural insights lens to explore why governments underweight the long term, and how we can help them better balance the present and the future
- Episode 111: Greg Lockwood walks us through recent projects using mixed methods to explore optimal hybrid work strategies and to encourage deep work in the age of distraction
- Episode 110: Jordana Composto shares how she works across disciplines and levels to tackle the climate crisis, including her contributions to the 2022 IPCC report and her research on the mechanics of social norms
- Episode 106: Yann Cornil gives us a preview of his upcoming book that suggests we eat less and enjoy it more when we eat mindfully and focus on the sensory pleasure of eating
- Episode 104: Julie Szabo tells us about recent projects promoting HPV vaccines and shares general wisdom for creating social media campaigns and measuring their impact
Using BI in Different Settings
- Episode 109: Metro Vancouver’s Alison Schatz draws on BI concepts and methods to write action-focused communications, coordinate with colleagues, connect with difference audiences, and lay the groundwork for herself and others to do full BI experiments to improve services and sustainability for the community
- Episode 107: Clea Stone helps us explore the intersection of market research and behavioural insights, brainstorms opportunities for integrating BI into market research, and profiles qualitative research techniques that can round out the BI repertoire
- Episode 105: Kieran Findlater explains how the Canadian federal government’s Impact and Innovation Unit (IIU). approaches projects and provides an overview of a project promoting climate action through a combination of longitudinal surveys, online experiments, and in-field testing
- Episode 103: Drawing on her experiences working in academia, government, and the private sector, Joana Katter discusses the importance of leading with curiosity and humility and emphasizes the many different contributions BI projects bring to the table
- Episode 102: Lea Dunn unpacks the value of behavioural science for firms like Brooks, the performance running company, which uses behavioural science in everything from developing strategy to evaluating customer satisfaction
For the full list of podcast episodes plus transcripts, check out the Calling DIBS page on the BI wiki or subscribe via major podcast platforms like Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Amazon Music.
Calling DIBS is recorded and edited on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh).