Advancing behavioural science and its application

Furthering the science and practice of behaviour change.

This theme involves developing methods and tools to further the science and practice of behaviour change. This includes the synthesis and predictive use of evidence across and within academic disciplines. 

Research projects

Read about some of our current projects relating to advancing behavioural science and its application:

This international, multidisciplinary project will develop tools and resources for the use of ontologies in behavioural sciences, building on the Human Behaviour Change Project.

Building national capability for behavioural research.

Developing a mental health ontology, to enable users to efficiently locate and interpret relevant mental health information.

Developing an AI-based knowledge system to find research in a given area, extract key information using an 'ontology', and predict intervention outcomes in novel scenarios.