Practical ideas, evidence and perspectives on behaviour change.
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Does your intervention make sense?
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Why behavioural scientists keep coming back to, well… behaviour.
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Why bring a systems lense to behavioural science?
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Are people reasonable?
Sharing what we know
Talks & Presentations
2026
Medical Geography Symposium — Toronto, 2026
Research on how neighbourhood environments and place shape health and behaviour.
Warwick Behavioural Insights Team (WBIT) — Warwick, 2026
Interactive session on designing behavioural interventions in real-world settings.
2025
United Nations General Assembly / SDSN — New York, 2025
Presented work on sustainable food access and community-based approaches to tackling food insecurity. (see more →)
Institute for Global Prosperity — London, 2025
Invited presentation on neighbourhood environments, health and inequalities.
European Congress on Obesity — Málaga, 2025
Presented research examining how food environments around schools may influence health and behaviour. (see more →)
GISRUK Conference — Bristol, 2025
Presented geospatial research designed to inform real-world policy decisions around local food environments. (see more →)
BRC & NIHR Obesity Away Day — London, 2025
Presented research on behavioural and environmental influences on health.
Oxford Behavioural Insights Group (OxBIG) — Oxford, 2025
Invited talk on freelancing and applied behavioural science.
2024
The Lancet Public Health Science Conference — Cardiff, 2024
Presented research on the relationship between the built environment, neighbourhood food access and public health. (see more →)
Behavioural Science & Public Health Network — London, 2024
Invited talk on applying behavioural science to public-health challenges.
Amplinate — Seattle, 2024
Workshop on applying behavioural science to digital products.
2023
European Congress on Obesity — Dublin, 2023
Presented research on what influences whether people take up weight-management support. (see more →)
NHS Behavioural Science Skills Development Seminar — London, 2023
Presented applied behavioural science work to NHS practitioners.
2022
UCL Centre for Behaviour Change Conference — London, 2022
Presented research on the barriers and enablers influencing uptake of weight-management programmes. (see more →)
Waste Prevention Exchange — London, 2022
Presented on harnessing the momentum of the climate emergency to influence waste behaviours.
2021
UCL Centre for Behaviour Change Conference — London, 2021
Presented research on behavioural barriers to medication uptake and adherence during pregnancy. (see more →)
UCL Centre for Behaviour Change Symposium — London, 2021
Presented applied work on how residents responded to new active-travel infrastructure introduced by London boroughs. (see more →)
UCL Centre for Behaviour Change Symposium — London, 2021
Presented research on the barriers and enablers influencing active travel in London. (see more →)
2019
About Drought Conference — Oxford, 2019
Presented behavioural research exploring how people respond to environmental and sustainability challenges. (see more →)
Research & Publications
Research on how neighbourhood food environments around schools may shape health, behaviour and inequalities. Published in The Lancet and other academic outlets.
Food environments & behaviour
Behavioural messaging & screening uptake
Research testing whether behaviourally informed invitation messages can increase engagement with NHS lung health checks.
Research on how behavioural science can improve the delivery and uptake of diabetes self-management programmes.
Healthcare behaviour change
Weight-management uptake
Research identifying the barriers and enablers that influence whether people take up weight-management support following a GP referral.
Active travel & local government
Research on the behavioural barriers and enablers shaping uptake of active-travel infrastructure introduced by London boroughs.
Family, food & health
Research examining how deprivation and local food environments relate to family food practices, child eating behaviour and BMI.
Behavioural Systems Mapping
Commentary exploring how behavioural science and systems thinking can be combined to help cities design and implement more effective climate action.
Written evidence to the UK Parliament on using behavioural science to improve climate policy.
Climate policy
Featured & Recognised
Sustainability innovation at the UN General Assembly
UCL / UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network · 2025
Featured following participation in the SDSN high-level meeting in New York during the UN General Assembly.
Research on food environments and childhood obesity
European Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025
Interviewed about research mapping fast-food environments around schools, deprivation and implications for childhood obesity.
Global finalist for climate-action innovation
UN Universities for Goal 13 · 2025
Recognised as part of a UCL team selected as one of eight global finalists for a project focused on sustainable food access.
Geospatial research with public-health impact
GISRUK / GoFundGeo · 2025
Recognised for research developing fast-food environment mapping methods with potential for wider public-health use.
Award for public engagement and science communication
European Congress on Obesity · 2025
Received the inaugural ECO Public Engagement & Science Communication Prize for translating obesity research for wider audiences.