Episode 2 with Michael Sanders

"In government and in the private sector, behavioral insights practitioners need to be much more rigorous, we need to hold ourselves to a much higher standard than we do in academia."

Michael Sanders (@mike_t_sanders) is the Executive Director of What Works for Children’s Social Care; former Chief Scientist at the Behavioural Insights Team, BIT in the UK, or what was the first official “nudge unit” in government. He’s a Reader in Public Policy at King’s College London and an Associate Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. Michael’s new book, Social Butterflies: Reclaiming the Positive Power of Social Networks was published earlier this year. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Bristol, and did his posdoctoral studies at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Important links

• Say hi 👋 to Michael:

  Twitter | LinkedIn | Website | Book

• What Works for Children’s Social Care

• Behavioural Insights Team

• Behavioural Exchange Conference

• A Room with a Viewpoint: Using social norms to motivate environmental conservation in hotels

• A Room with a Viewpoint Revisited: Descriptive Norms and Hotel Guests’ Towel Reuse Behavior

• The BI policy world map

• The Behavioural Insights Team Annual Report

• Social Butterflies: Reclaiming the Positive Power of Social Networks