Calling DIBS
Join host Kirstin Appelt, Research Director of UBC Decision Insights for Business & Society (UBC-DIBS), as she interviews Behavioural Insights enthusiasts and experts from BC and beyond to explore:
- how BI is being used to tackle societal and planetary challenges,
- how BI skills are used across sectors,
- how BI intersects with other fields,
- how to conduct BI projects,
- and how BI is advancing with new research.
Liner notes: Calling DIBS is recorded and edited on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh). Calling DIBS is edited by Rishad Habib, Siobhan Cook, Isabella Jaramillo, Parnian Ashrafi, Kashish Khatri, Olin Becker, and Kirstin Appelt. Intro and outro music are excerpts from “resonance” by airtone (2020; http://ccmixter.org/files/airtone/61321), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0). New episodes are posted regularly September-May.
Episodes
115 episodes
Saving Lives with Organ Donation & Emergency Management (Episode 116)
Karen Smallwood, Product Manager in Connected Services BC, BC Public Service. Karen Smallwood has an eye for how to use BI to save lives! Her capstone project team tackled
Reducing Unemployment with BI (Episode 115)
Faraz Haqqi, Principal Behavioral Designer at ideas42.Even highly skilled workers can struggle to find work. Faraz Haqqi provides a snapshot of ideas42’s projects tackling this challenge from Rwanda to Jamaica to Malaysia to the U...
Nudging School Enrollment (Episode 114)
Katherine Flaschen, Principal Behavioral Designer at ideas42. ideas42's Katherine Flaschen explains how to tackle complex challenges like "improving educational outcomes" by using a step-by-step process and focusing on meanin...
Governing for Tomorrow Today (Episode 113)
Nicholas Chesterley, Author of "Future-Generation Government".Nick Chesterley's new book, "Future-Generation Government", uses a behavioural insights lens to explore why governments underweight the long term, and how we can help ...
When Are A/B Tests Experiments? (Episode 112)
Dave Hardisty, Associate Professor of Marketing and Behavioural Science at UBC Sauder School of Business.Dave Hardisty returns to the podcast to talk about A/B tests, which are a popular and useful tool to help us determine which ...
Applying BI to Hybrid Work & Deep Work (Episode 111)
Greg Lockwood, Senior Analyst at Global Affairs Canada.Greg Lockwood returns to the podcast to tell us about recent projects using mixed methods to explore optimal hybrid work strategies and to encourage deep work in the age of di...
Working Across Disciplines Towards Climate Solutions (Episode 110)
Jordana Composto, Postdoctoral Researcher at UBC Decision Insights for Business & Society (UBC-DIBS).We're thrilled to welcome Jordana Composto as our new DIBS postdoctoral researcher. Through her contributions to the 2022 IPC...
Putting BI to Work (Episode 109)
Alison Schatz, Senior Communications Specialist at Metro Vancouver.After completing the Advanced Professional Certificate in Behavioural Insights, Alison Schatz is finding a wide range of ways to weave BI into her work. A...
Boosts, Nudges, & Nuance (Episode 108)
Takuro Ishikawa, Senior Behavioural Scientist with the BC Behavioural Insights Group (BC BIG).Tak Ishikawa returns to the podcast to help us understand the recent "debate" about boosts and nudges. To help ground the conversation, ...
Surfacing Barriers & Designing Solutions (Episode 107)
Clea Stone, Associate Director at The Sound.Because Clea Stone recently completed the Advanced Professional Certificate in Behavioural Insights to complement her existing skillset from a decade of work in market research,...
The French Guide to Eating Happier & Healthier (Episode 106)
Yann Cornil, Associate Professor of Marketing and Behavioural Science at UBC Sauder School of Business.As a French food researcher, Yann Cornil was surprised by North American eating habits and messaging about good vs. bad foods. ...
Good Data Informs Good Policy (Episode 105)
Kieran Findlater, Lead for Behavioural and Data Science at the Impact and Innovation Unit.Kieran Findlater shares how his cross-disciplinary background prepared him to work at the Canadian federal government's Impact and Innovatio...
Leveraging Social Media to Increase HPV Vaccine Uptake (Episode 104)
Julie Szabo, Principal at Capulet.At Capulet, Julie Szabo has worked on a wide variety of online communication campaigns. In addition to sharing general wisdom for creating social media campaigns and measuring their impact, Julie ...
Lead with Curiosity (Episode 103)
Joana Katter, Research Lead for Policy & Program Research at Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada.Drawing on her experiences working in academia, government, and the private sector, Joana Katter shares advice for find...
BI for the Long Run (Episode 102)
Lea Dunn, Principal Quantitative Researcher at Brooks Running.Lea Dunn unpacks the value of behavioural science for firms like Brooks, the performance running company. With their passionate customers and culture of curiosity, Broo...
BI Successes, Challenges, & Opportunities (Episode 101)
Piyush Tantia.After 15 years at ideas42, Piyush Tantia reflects back on big successes, including completing over 600 projects around the world and scaling impactful interventions like behaviourally-informed cash transfers. Piy...
Calling DIBS Hits 100 (Episode 100)
Kirstin Appelt, Research Director of UBC Decision Insights for Business & Society (UBC-DIBS).To celebrate our 100th episode, host Kirstin Appelt reflects on her top takeaways so far: (1) There are multiple roads to BI and the...
Does A Greener Car by Any Other Name Save as Much Fuel? (Episode 99)
Adrian Camilleri, Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Technology Sydney Business School.Adrian Camilleri provides an overview of his research nudging greener car choices: He shares his earlier work testing
Antiracist by Design is Better By Design (Episode 98)
Crystal Hall, Associate Professor at the University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Policy & Governance.Drawing on her book Antiracist by Desi...
Using Carrots (Not Sticks) for Climate Action (Episode 97)
Jade Radke, PhD student in Psychology at UBC, & Jiaying Zhao, Associate Professor of Psychology and the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at UBC.As part of the "Happy Climate" project, Jade Radke and Jia...
Planning Helps Us Collectively Shape Our Future (Episode 96)
Holly Caggiano, Assistant Professor in Climate Justice and Environmental Planning at UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning.Holly Caggiano shares her research combining the disciplines of behavioural science and planning...
Sludge Audits For the Win! (Episode 95)
Eva Koromilas, Project Lead with the OECD’s Behavioural Science Unit.Sludge is baked into many processes, from filing taxes to renewing licenses to accessing services. Fortunately, folks like Eva Koromilas are paving the way for o...
Unblocking Harm Reduction Behaviours Amidst the Fentanyl Crisis (Episode 94)
Penny Norman, VP of Strategy & Communications, Rescue Agency.Penny Norman applies behavioural science to tackle a variety of pressing behavioural and mental health challe...
"Both/And" Strengthens Behavioural Science (Episode 93)
Jeremy Gretton, Behavioural Scientist with the Ontario Behavioural Insights Unit. Jeremy Gretton reflects on his time applying BI in academia, the private sector, and government. We discuss why many "a or b" questions are bet...
Behavioural Science & Digital Innovation (Episode 92)
Paloma Bellatin, Principal Advisor with BIT. The term "digital innovation" covers a lot of (quickly-changing) ground. Paloma Bellatin provides an overview of three different areas where behavioural science is making an impact: cr...