Manage online library of relevant documents and media.
* Create and Provide Resources: Generate tutorials and other “how to” documents to help accelerate these efforts within agencies. * Convene: Lead a multi-agency “community of practice” to identify and share promising practices and common challenges. * Enhance Capacity: Provide conceptual and technical support to agencies with specific behavioral insights efforts already underway.
Help to design, implement, and test the relevant interventions using rigorous experimental methods. * Build Capacity: Work with a broad range of federal agencies to identify new program areas that could benefit from the application of behavioral insights. If you are aware of individuals with strong analytic skills, experience designing, testing, and evaluating rigorous randomized control trials, and a strong research background in fields such as social psychology, cognitive psychology, or behavioral economics, please encourage them send a CV and contact information to mshankar2 at, which will be sent to the relevant parties for consideration. Moreover, several agencies are looking to recruit expert academics to sit directly within their agencies and to help inspire, design, and execute on specific policy projects, and so it is possible to serve in this capacity as well.
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Our preference is for individuals who are willing to serve full time but we will also consider people who are only in a position to serve part-time. It is likely that selected individuals will serve on a temporary detail under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act before returning to their home organization, which can be a university, non-profit, or state and local government. The team will be staffed by 4-5 experts in behavioral science and experimental design and evaluation. The federal government is currently creating a new team that will help build federal capacity to experiment with these approaches, and to scale behavioral interventions that have been rigorously evaluated, using, where possible, randomized controlled trials. In 2010, UK Prime Minister David Cameron commissioned the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT, ), which through a process of rapid, iterative experimentation (“Test, Learn, Adapt”), has successfully identified and tested interventions that will further advance priorities of the British government, while saving the government at least £1 billion within the next five years (see previous Annual Reports 2010-12). The practice of using behavioral insights to inform policy has seen success overseas. Strengthening Federal Capacity for Behavioral InsightsĪ growing body of evidence suggests that insights from the social and behavioral sciences can be used to help design public policies that work better, cost less, and help people to achieve their goals. She is also looking to help place behavioral researchers within several government agencies. Shankar is helping recruit behavioral scientists to participate in a similar group in the U.S.
Following success of the Behavioral Insights Team in the U.K. Her goal is to help bring more insights from behavioral science research into policy making in America through the executive branch. Maya Shankar is a new Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House. Next message: Conference on financial incentives to to promote socially desireable behaviours.Previous message: Two fMRI positions at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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