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We've worked on hundreds of projects that address some of the world's most pressing social, environmental and organisational problems.  

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Major projects

Our major projects showcase our large, multi-partner programs that utilise the entire BehaviourWorks Method and demonstrate the potential of accomplishing transformative change for our societies.

Reducing Food Waste: The Story Behind the Use It Up™ Tape

OzHarvest teamed up with BehaviourWorks Australia's Dr Mark Boulet to conduct research into fighting household food waste, which led to the development of the ‘Use-It-Up™ tape’.

The Challenge of Leading Your Best Life with Spinal Cord Injury

We worked to engage people living with spinal cord injury in making better decisions about their health and lifestyles.

Climate Adaptation Mission

Exploring how behavioural public policy experiments can boost adaptation to climate change.

Responsible Consumption Mission

Exploring how behavioural public policy experiments could have an impact on transitioning Australia's material-footprint.

VMIA Health Trials

To prevent harm and reduce medical indemnity claims, VMIA works with Victorian health services to implement patient safety strategies.

Scale up

Understanding how behaviour change interventions can be scaled up to achieve greater impact and reach.

COVID-19 Scrub study

BehaviourWorks leads the Australian chapter of the Survey of COVID-19 Responses to Understand Behaviour (SCRUB) study, a real-time survey tracking how groups of people all over the world are responding to health messages – and changing their behaviour - in response to the pandemic.

Waste collaboration

The Waste and Circular Economy Collaboration led by BWA and its partners aim to explore and better understand how behavioural insights can be used to encourage households, businesses and the Australian community to avoid, reduce, reuse and recycle waste, improving the liveability and sustainability of our cities and regions.
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Our projects showcase our collaborative work with local, state and federal government agencies, as well as a wide range of industry and non-government organisations.

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Applying Behavioural Systems Mapping to enhance cybersecurity and resilience

Using Behavioural Systems Mapping to find leverage points to inform behaviour change interventions to enhance cyber capability.

Understanding the impacts of rehab centres on communities

Residential rehab; why do some say no, no, no?

Behavioural science review of efforts to maximise participation in WA containers for change program

Working top-down and bottom-up to increase WA's container deposit scheme participation

Supporting organisation-wide behaviour change with a bespoke toolkit

A practical behaviour change toolkit for the NSW Environment Protection Authority

Driving Meaningful Change at BHP South Flank

With a strong focus on building an inclusive and respectful workplace, we worked with BHP South Flank to measure and advise on their agenda to promote gender equity and workplace psychosocial safety

A Review of Sleep Interventions for Healthy Sleep Habits

What works to improve sleep? We identified a number of behavioural interventions that could be delivered via an app to aid healthcare practitioners enhance community well-being.

Reducing boat strikes with marine megafauna

How can we stop boats and large sea life colliding around Ningaloo Reef? We conducted evidence reviews and a behavioural identification workshop to find out.

Review of sustainable healthcare

How can healthcare remain sustainable in the face of climate change?

Promoting diversity and inclusion within land and waterway management

What works to promote diversity and inclusion within land and waterway management?

Helping Agriculture Victoria staff increase compliance through better letters.

Can compliance letters be improved using the INSPIRE framework?

Behavioural Insights for Communication ‘Better’ Practices: Waste Minimisation in New Zealand

We worked to collate and communicate evidence on better practice to improve the behavioural effectiveness of communication to households in New Zealand.

Using behavioural science to tackle LGBTQ+ change or suppression practices in Victoria

Stopping harmful practices that change or suppress a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

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