By Dr Sarah Ball, Dr Robert Lepenies, Professor Holger Strassheim, and Dr Jessica Pykett The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vital role that behavioural expertise and behaviourally-informed public policies can play in keeping people safe and in understanding risky or health-promoting behaviours, such as compliance with social distancing rules. The public health decision making landscape is a complex one, involving … Continue reading “Balancing citizen wellbeing and ethics in times of crisis. Systems mapping of expert policy advice.”
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Designing policy strategies for urban wellbeing – why knowing what works is not enough, by Jessica Pykett
This blog post previously appeared at the Power to Persuade blog Global anxiety about urban stressors The accelerating pace of urbanisation globally has generated new anxieties about our relationship with and experience of cities. Urban challenges such as traffic, air pollution, noise, stress, overcrowding, socio-economic inequalities, food insecurity, excessive waste, ill-health, exclusion, conflict, privatisation of … Continue reading “Designing policy strategies for urban wellbeing – why knowing what works is not enough, by Jessica Pykett”