Part 3 and final (for now) of our Future of Work series considers the one question we’ve been grappling with from the start, what does the future of work hold and how do we get there? Aishwarya Kumar, Research Lead at Busara gives an outline of the solutions that we can test, how we came about them and what they mean for us.…

As part 2 of turning our BeSci skill set inwards to improve work well-being and productivity, we take a behind the scenes look at how and why we plan to run an org wide experiment on ourselves to understand whether we’re working from home or living at work.

We're turning the behavioral scientist inwards to improve work well-being and productivity by running a future of work podcast series. To help kick us off on this series Alice Escande a senior program associate in Busara, has a candid conversation with Lori Foster on how to use organizational psychology and behavioral economics to think differently…

In this episode, Amy Shipow moderates a conversation between Dan Schreiber, from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD’s, Crises and Fragility Team and Salim Kombo, an Associate at Busara Center. Together, they talk about the recently released OECD publication, States of Fragility in which Dan has a chapter titled, Fit…

In Episode 7, we hear from Busarians' Magdalena, a research specialist and Grace, a project associate and some external friends namely Angela, founder and coach at Triple Bottom Line Associates and Gospel, a research and development economist at Streetnomics based in Nigeria. We learn how consumers are affected by misinformation and the researchers…

We all know fake news is a pervasive, global problem, especially when it comes to sensitive situations like the current pandemic or elections. Eric Mugendi from PesaCheck speaks to us about his work tracking and combating misinformation across Africa. He speaks about the need to build a culture of fact-checking through the act and art of questionin…

In Episode 5, we discuss the extent in which misinformation devalues expert information and can have a ‘devastating’ impact on public order. For marginalized communities in the Global South, we conclude that building trust and anticipating a comprehensive response to misinformation is a moral imperative. At Busara, that's what our research seeks to…

In this episode, Ruth engages Bilal Siddiqi, a friend of Busara based at the Center for Effective Global Action, and Anna Yalouris, an engagement director at Busara, in an enlightening comparison between the responses of the 2014 Ebola outbreak and the COVID-19 pandemic. When we consider methods used in previous pandemics to contain the current hea…

In this episode, Lornah facilitates an engaging discussion with Busara staff members Dhwani, Rosa, and Amy, who bring together view points from Kenya, India, Ethiopia, and the United States. They share their perspectives on the alternatives to social distancing, ways of coping with uncertainty during the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as how it has cha…

Amy Shipow is back and in conversation with Syon Bhanot, a behavioral and public economist, and an Assistant Professor of Economics at Swarthmore College. The conversation is on social norm change. How are people treating their health and the health of their community, and are there gender differences in driving certain social norms?…

Amy Shipow's curiosity as a researcher has her asking, what is the psychological impact of social distancing in the global south? To answer this question, she teams up with colleagues from different divisions within Busara to discuss how COVID-19 has affected the daily lives of people. What comes next is an introspective chat about feelings of anxi…

Bruce Rigal has indeed lived in interesting times. In a glittering career in Finance spanning over 20 years, Bruce rose to become Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Global Banking at Deutsche Bank. In this time at DB, he oversaw the daily operations of the bank; from Asset Finance and Leasing to Commercial Real Estate, from Debt and Equity Capital Ma…

Today's episode of Behave Yourself meanders through the rapidly advancing field of synthetic biology - an interdisciplinary branch of biology and engineering. Here, scientists channel Dr Frankenstein himself as they strive to alter, enhance and ultimately build living organisms in the laboratory. To help us breathe life into this fascinating topic,…