Calling DIBS
by Kirstin Appelt
Latest episode
Saving Lives with Organ Donation & Emergency Management (Episode 116)
Saving Lives with Organ Donation & Emergency Management (Episode 116)
About this podcast
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, Ethan Lee, Olin Becker, Yuan Lei, 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).
Episodes
The newest 20 of 115 episodes
- Saving Lives with Organ Donation & Emergency Management (Episode 116) · 24 min · Season 6 Episode 116Karen 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 organ…
- Reducing Unemployment with BI (Episode 115) · 22 min · Season 6 Episode 115Faraz 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…
- Nudging School Enrollment (Episode 114) · 25 min · Season 6 Episode 114Katherine Flaschen, Principal Behavioral Designer at ideas42. ideas42's Katherine Flaschen explains how to tackle complex challenges like "improving educational outcomes" by…
- Governing for Tomorrow Today (Episode 113) · 38 min · Season 6 Episode 113Nicholas Chesterley, Author of "Future-Generation Government". Nick Chesterley's new book, "Future-Generation Government", uses a behavioural insights lens to explore why…
- When Are A/B Tests Experiments? (Episode 112) · 37 min · Season 6 Episode 112Dave 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…
- Applying BI to Hybrid Work & Deep Work (Episode 111) · 41 min · Season 6 Episode 111Greg 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…
- Working Across Disciplines Towards Climate Solutions (Episode 110) · 47 min · Season 6 Episode 110Jordana Composto, Postdoctoral Researcher at UBC Decision Insights for Business & Society (UBC-DIBS). We're thrilled to welcome Jordana Composto as our new DIBS postdoctoral…
- Putting BI to Work (Episode 109) · 21 min · Season 6 Episode 109Alison Schatz, Senior Communications Specialist at Metro Vancouver. After completing the Advanced Professional Certificate in Behavioural Insights, Alison Schatz is finding a…
- Boosts, Nudges, & Nuance (Episode 108) · 50 min · Season 6 Episode 108Takuro 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…
- Surfacing Barriers & Designing Solutions (Episode 107) · 24 min · Season 6 Episode 107Clea Stone, Associate Director at The Sound. Because Clea Stone recently completed the Advanced Professional Certificate in Behavioural Insights to complement her existing…
- The French Guide to Eating Happier & Healthier (Episode 106) · 51 min · Season 6 Episode 106Yann 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…
- Good Data Informs Good Policy (Episode 105) · 43 min · Season 6 Episode 105Kieran 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…
- Leveraging Social Media to Increase HPV Vaccine Uptake (Episode 104) · 43 min · Season 6 Episode 104Julie 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…
- Lead with Curiosity (Episode 103) · 32 min · Season 6 Episode 103Joana Katter, Research Lead for Policy & Program Research at Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada. Drawing on her experiences working in academia, government, and the…
- BI for the Long Run (Episode 102) · 32 min · Season 6 Episode 102Lea Dunn, Principal Quantitative Researcher at Brooks Running. Lea Dunn unpacks the value of behavioural science for firms like Brooks, the performance running company. With…
- BI Successes, Challenges, & Opportunities (Episode 101) · 38 min · Season 6 Episode 101Piyush Tantia. After 15 years at ideas42, Piyush Tantia reflects back on big successes, including completing over 600 projects around the world and scaling impactful…
- Calling DIBS Hits 100 (Episode 100) · 18 min · Season 5 Episode 100Kirstin 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…
- Does A Greener Car by Any Other Name Save as Much Fuel? (Episode 99) · 40 min · Season 5 Episode 99Adrian Camilleri, Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Technology Sydney Business School. Adrian Camilleri provides an overview of his research nudging greener…
- Antiracist by Design is Better By Design (Episode 98) · 49 min · Season 5 Episode 98Crystal Hall, Associate Professor at the University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Policy & Governance. Drawing on her book Antiracist by Design, Crystal Hall shares an…
- Using Carrots (Not Sticks) for Climate Action (Episode 97) · 31 min · Season 5 Episode 97Jade 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…
