Learning & Resources

The Centre for Behaviour Change at University College London runs an online International Training Programme, which attracts participants globally, from a range of backgrounds including researchers, practitioners, policy makers and industry professionals.

• Behaviour Change Interventions: Introductory Principles and Practice. Self-directed online learning for a couple of hours per week for 4 weeks. Runs three times a year. You will be able to ask questions and join in the discussion with other participants and the course lead. You will have the opportunity to learn from experts in a live Q&A.
• Applied Principles and Practice of Behaviour Change. One-week intensive online course, which takes place once a year in the autumn. Learn about topics in depth during daily live webinars, small group tutorials and through mentorship from experts. You will get to apply what you learn to a project of your own. You will need to have completed the introductory course or equivalent.
• Advanced Modules in Behaviour Change. They offer 5 modules, participants can pick according to their areas of interest. Modules take place in Autumn / Winter, and in Spring. These are full day online sessions to gain specialist knowledge in areas such as influencing motivation, ontologies, behavioural systems mapping and process evaluation.

They also offer a MSc in Behaviour Change which you can find out more about on UCL's website.

• Behavioural Insights Toolkit from The Behaviouralist- This online tool can help policymakers, civil servants or professionals apply insights from behavioural science to demand-side energy policy.
• The Human Behaviour Change Project website- Here you can find tools and resources to facilitate behaviour change research, synthesise evidence and predict outcomes.  

• West, R, Gould, A. Improving Health and Wellbeing: A Guide to Using Behavioural Science in Policy and Practice. 
• West, R. Michie, S, Chadwick, P, Atkins, L, Lorencatto, F. Achieving behaviour change A guide for national government. 
• Michie, S, Atkins, L, West, R. The Behaviour Change Wheel: A Guide to Designing Interventions. 1^st ed: Silverback Publishing; 2014.
• Michie S, van Stralen M, West R. The Behaviour Change Wheel: A new method for characterising and designing behaviour change interventions. Implementation Science. 2011;6:42
• Michie et al. (2013). The Behaviour Change Technique Taxonomy (v1) of 93 hierarchically-clustered techniques: building an international consensus for the reporting of behaviour change interventions, Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 46(1), 81-95
• Research Engagement with Policy Makers: a practical guide to writing policy briefs.

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Approaches to constructing systems maps:

• Barbrook-Johnson, P., & Penn, A. (2021). Participatory systems mapping for complex energy policy evaluation. Evaluation, 27(1), 57–79. 

• Craven, L. K. (2017). System Effects: A Hybrid Methodology for Exploring the Determinants of Food In/Security. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 107(5), 1011–1027.