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1. Go For Gold: How to Win at the Olympics

   As a sofa spectator with little to no athletic ability, I feel that it is my civic duty to explore how we, that’s you and I, can someday make it

   

   Mikaela Green on Aug 5, 2021

   

2. The work I was always meant to do

   Across my teenage years, my Grandad slowly faded away. Alzheimer’s Disease chipped away at everything that made him my Grandad. It started when he got lost driving around Coventry’s ring

   

   Ian Fannon on Mar 15, 2021

   

3. Why I spoke at Cancer Research UK’s Early Diagnosis Research conference

   Last March, as the first wave of the pandemic was just beginning, we began working with a new client.  It’s no exaggeration to say I’d never seen a brief like

   

   Ian Fannon on Mar 15, 2021

   

4. Why ‘screening saves lives’ remains the most effective message – even in a pandemic

   One of the last face-to-face meetings I attended before lockdown was on 3 March at Wellington House in London, the home of Public Health England. I was there to present

   

   Ian Fannon on Oct 16, 2020

   

5. Campaign of the month – Veganuary

   Last month 400,000 took part in Veganuary, an impressive 60% increase since the previous January. I recall being a vegetarian in the 1990s when many people considered a meat-free diet

   

   Ana Granger on Feb 17, 2020

   

6. 3 behaviour change trends we’ll be riding in 2020

   1. Co-production We believe there’s a missing piece in behaviour change: co-production. It’s not much talked about by UCL or the UK Government Communications Service or the Behavioural Insights Team.

   

   Ben Caspersz on Feb 17, 2020

   

7. 50 shades of greyscale

   Colours influence our physiology and psychology. They affect our autonomic nervous system, memory retrieval/formation, hormonal activity and emotional stimulation. For example, did you know that the phrase ‘seeing red’ when

   

   Francesca Davis on Feb 17, 2020

   

8. Could you be one of our Bright Spot employers?

   Have you overcome particular obstacles or made changes at your organisation to introduce flexible working to some or all of your colleagues? Would you be happy for us to come

   

   Lucy Proudfoot on Feb 17, 2020

   

9. Campaign of the month: Pass It On

   In the behaviour change world, passing new legislation to change a default is the equivalent of pressing the nuclear button. But sometimes it’s the right answer – and so this

   

   Ian Fannon on Jan 6, 2020