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Behaviour change to address social, health and environmental challenges. Cross-disciplinary, linking policy-makers, practitioners & industry. Reposts ≠ endorsement. www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-change www.linkedin.com/company/centre-for-behaviour-change-ucl
Join @ecdc.europa.eu for a free event on challenges healthcare workers face with severe infections.
Our Research Fellow Massar Dabbous will present on ‘Behavioural insights for strengthening infection prevention and control’.
🗓️ 4 December
🕐 12-2 UK time
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Congratulations to our 2024/2025 MSc Behaviour Change cohort! Best wishes for a bright future! Gold confetti in the background, with an icon of a graduation cap.
🎓 Congratulations to our 2024/25 MSc Behaviour Change cohort who received their awards earlier this week!
From our MSc team - Prof Leslie Gutman, Dr Danielle D’Lima & Sophia Bowes - thank you for your hard work & enthusiasm throughout the course ⭐
#UCL #MakeYourMastersMatter #MScBehaviourChange
⏳ Only 10 days left to submit your abstract for the BSPHN Annual Conference! Share your work across:
✔ Research – showcase findings
✔ Behaviour Change in Practice – real-world impact
✔ New Symposium – deep dive on key topics
👉Submit yours today: shorturl.at/6CGB0
#behaviouralscience #publichealth
The Co-design for Behaviour Change Network invites you to their next online talk by Dr Siobhán O’Connor (KCL) on 'How to do digital health co-design: Insights from a mixed methods systematic review and online methods toolkit'.
📅 17 Dec 2025, 1–2pm
👉 Register: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Conference delegates in an auditorium.
Just over 3 weeks left to submit for #BCConf2026!
We’ve made some improvements:
✨ 12 min oral presentations
📍 Larger, more central venue
🗓️ 3.5-day programme
We’re committed to making this our biggest & best conference yet - and we’d love to see your work featured.
👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/behavi...
A patient having blood taken.
🧠 New research, co-authored by Prof Fabi Lorencatto, evaluated a retrospective Hepatitis C patient re-engagement exercise using the TDF. It provides insights into methods for re-engaging patients and sharing & using public health data to support clinical practice.
👉 bmjopen.bmj.com/cont...
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UCL is 1st in the UK for sustainability in the QS Sustainability Rankings for the second year running! 🏆🌍 And for the first time, UCL is 3rd in the world for sustainability - up two spots from last year. Thanks to our community for making this possible 👏 Find out more: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
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Highly Cited Researchers 2025 - Minds that move the world
👏 Congratulations to Prof Susan Michie (CBC Director) & Prof Robert West (CBC Associate), who are recognised as Highly Cited Researchers 2025 by
@clarivateag.bsky.social!
🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch...
#HighlyCited2025 @susanmichie.bsky.social @robertjwest.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social
@martamarques.bsky.social @felixnaughton.bsky.social @ajamesgreen.bsky.social @paulinaschenk.bsky.social @carolinacsilva.bsky.social @drrosiewebster.bsky.social @sbacon20.bsky.social @sanderhermsen.bsky.social @laurajmcgowan.bsky.social #BCConf2026
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The 2026 Behaviour Change Scientific Committee - photo of some of the Committee members in an online meeting.
Our Scientific Committee has been busy shaping plans for the 2026 Behaviour Change Conference! 🎉
💡 Don't forget the call for abstracts is open until 15 December
👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch...
👏 Thanks to Co-Chairs Marta Marques & Felix Naughton & all Committee members for their expertise
The Big Toilet Project team, including our Research Fellow @ayselisa.bsky.social, presented to MPs at Evidence Week in Parliament last week on how tackling the rise in toilet training age can cut nappy waste, boost school readiness & support the UK’s net zero goals.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAkh...
🚨ABSTRACT PORTAL OPEN🚨Submit your #QHRNConf26 abstracts now at qhrn2026.exordo.com
Theme: ‘The Transformative Power of Qualitative Research: Insights, Impact and Innovation’. Our 5 streams and info on keynotes can be found at tinyurl.com/yhr8ez7r
🗓️Deadline: 1 Dec 2025
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🧠 New research: MSc Behaviour Change students Zhen Lim, Si Yin Lim & Siqi Lu (supervised by Prof Leslie Gutman) used the Behaviour Change Wheel to explore how young people engage with mental health forums & what influences digital help-seeking & peer support
🔗 humanfactors.jmir.or...
@martamarques.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social @felixnaughton.bsky.social @carolinacsilva.bsky.social Please help us to share! 🙏 @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social @ehps.bsky.social @behaviourresuk.bsky.social @nihr-pru-bass.bsky.social @lsepbs.bsky.social @bsphn.bsky.social
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Behaviour Change Conference 2026 - call for abstracts now open, submit by 15 December 2025. Image of conference venue.
📢 Submissions are open for the 2026 Behaviour Change Conference!
A fantastic opportunity to share your work & connect with delegates worldwide - all working toward a healthier, sustainable world 🌍
🗓 Deadline: 15 Dec 2025
👉 ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-change/conference
#BCConf2026 @be-change.bsky.social
International Training Programme: 'Applied Principles and Practice of Behaviour Change. Online, 6-10 July 2026. There is a semi-transparent network of icons of people in circles, connected by lines, someone is reaching out to point at one of the icons and there are glowing lights around their hand.
📢 Registration is open for our 2026 Intermediate Training Course!
Arrive with a problem, leave with a plan: a week-long, hands-on course to help you apply behaviour change principles in your own work, supported by expert mentors.
👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch...
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📅 Save the date for #BCConf2026 from 17-19 June, with pre-conference workshops & networking on 16 June. The call for abstracts will open shortly - more details very soon...
29.10.2025 09:26 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0👉 Full paper:
Li VQT, Yarime M, Antonopoulou V, Potts H, Washbourne C-L. Behavioural perspectives on personal health data sharing and app design: an international survey study. Data & Policy. 2025;7:e66.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Figure 2 (from paper). Willingness by city to share data with a health app if a government health agency (a) developed the app or (b) had access to the data. Willingness was much lower in Hong Kong than London.
🧠 This week’s research highlight: Would you share your health data to receive personalised advice?
Senior Research Fellow @viviantonop.bsky.social co-authored a study on privacy concerns & trust in personalised health apps with 2000 people in London & Hong Kong.
👉 www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
Vivi Antonopoulou: Theory informed behaviour change techniques in A&F interventions
Join this free, online conference to hear insights from @viviantonop.bsky.social about theory informed behaviour change techniques in audit and feedback interventions in healthcare.
🔗 Register: www.womensacademics....
Fitness and calorie counting apps can leave users feeling demoralised and ready to give up on their goals, according to a new study using machine learning to analyse 59,000 posts on Twitter (now X) involving Dr Paulina Bondaronek @uclpophealthsci.bsky.social and Dr Lucy Porter @ucl-cbc.bsky.social
22.10.2025 10:04 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0The research identified several negative themes:
📊 challenges of quantifying diet & physical activity
and the complexity of tracking calories & exercise through oversimplified algorithms
⚙️ technical challenges & malfunctions
😣 aversive emotional responses to the apps’ notifications.
"Fitness apps can sometimes leave users feeling demoralised and ready to give up – which is the exact opposite of what these tools are supposed to do." Dr Lucy Porter, Centre for Behaviour Change. Image in background: close up of person on an exercise mat, holding a phone showing a fitness app.
New research: Do fitness apps do more harm than good?📱
Analysis of 58k+ posts on X about the 5 most profitable fitness apps found almost 1 in 4 had negative sentiment.
📘 Paper co-authored by Dr Lucy Porter: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Applications are now open for our Behaviour Change MSc! 🎓Now in its 8th year, the course attracts talented students passionate about applying behaviour change theory to create positive impact. Hear from MSc student Shruti about her experience of the course 👇
Learn more: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...
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🧠 This week’s research highlight:
Applying an implementation science lens to understand physician-level variation in patient length of stay in internal medicine.
Co-authored by our Co-Director Prof Fabi Lorencatto.
👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🦠 Interested in behavioural science for infection disease prevention and control - and the role that AI can play in this?
💻 Don't miss this webinar by two of our Associates, Dr Janna Hastings and Dr Kristina Curtis, on 21 October.
Details and sign up below 👇
📢 Job opportunity from @mcbc-unimelb.bsky.social
for an internationally recognised academic leader to serve as Director, to enhance their research capacity, education programs & engagement initiatives.
🗓 Deadline: 29 Oct 2025
🔗 Apply: unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/broadbean_ex...
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2025 and 2026 dates for your diary from the UCL Centre for Behaviour Change. Introductory, intermediate and advanced courses, and the Behaviour Change Conference 2026.
Keen to grow your skills & knowledge in #BehaviourChange? 🌍
Dates for your diary for our training courses & events 👇
To join our intermediate course next year, you’ll need to complete the introductory course first - the next starts in October
👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/behavi...
Quote from Dr Vivi Antonopoulou, UCL Centre for Behaviour Change, as part of World Alzheimer's Month 2025: "We are interested in understanding how people respond to living with a robot in their home. Then we want to take this study further and design robots specifically for people living with dementia. That may include changes to the robot’s communication style or its ability to provide memory prompts for people with dementia."
🤖 Could robots support us as we age?
As part of #WorldAlzMonth, @viviantonop.bsky.social & @drchrysikou.bsky.social discuss how smart technologies can enhance independence in later life.
👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-...
@uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social
#UCLDementia
🔗 Find out more about the MSc Behaviour Change: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...
🔗 And the Behavioural Insights Exchange, which enables our Masters' students to work with an organisation to apply what they have learnt to a real-world issue: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
