Health and wellbeing resources

Prof Susan Michie presented the Opening Plenary Session at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Research Week in Riga. Watch the video on their website. (March 2025)

The Behavioural and Social Science Strategy - Improving People's Health was published by the Campaign for the Social Sciences to enable the broad public health system to use behavioural and social sciences. It was developed by a collaboration of academics, public health professionals and representatives from funders and learned bodies, chaired by Prof Susan Michie. (October 2018)

Prof Leslie Gutman and Prof Angel Chater delivered a joint webinar as part of the UCL Institute of Mental Health's Catalyst Seminar series.  Prof Gutman's presentation was on ‘Using the Behaviour Change Wheel to Improve Digital Mental Health Interventions to Support CYPMH’. Prof Chater presented on ‘Experiences of parental bereavement as a young person and the role of physical activity’. Watch the video on YouTube. (February 2025)

We partnered with The British Heart Foundation (BHF), Macmillan Cancer Support and Nesta, to publish a new Good Help guide 'Reimagining Help: an evidence-based approach to helping people reach their goals to assist people to live well in their homes and communities. The guide aims to support practitioners, system leaders (such as service managers, charity directors or commissioners) and any person working in a direct ‘helping’ organisation to understand the behaviour change evidence that underpins Good Help, and develop new ideas or adapt offers of Good Help, which can be tested out in their own organisations or local communities. Access the toolkit on the Nesta website (2020).

We partnered with ActionAid Ireland over a four year period to apply behavioural science frameworks to reduce gender-based violence in Kenya, Nepal and Ethiopia. We published a guide for development practitioners to integrate the human rights based and behaviour change approaches into a single operational model, illustrated with examples drawn directly from the work of the ActionAid field teams. You can read the summary of the guide and access the full guide. (October 2020).

Prof Susan Michie authored a personal reflection piece on the reasons why the UK did so poorly in managing the acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, despite having access to extensive and high-quality scientific evidence and advice, drawing on her participation in and experiences of the Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (SAGE) and its behavioural sub-group. Read the piece in the British Academy Journal. (August 2024).

Prof Susan Michie participated in an interdisciplinary workshop organized by Imperial College London’s Jameel Institute, Institute of Infection and the Centre for Health Economics & Policy Innovation. Read the report from this meeting on the Imperial College website. (July 2024)

Prof Susan Michie (CBC Director) participated in the World Health Organization's 2nd global technical consultation, which aimed to accelerate the use of public health and social measures for epidemic and pandemic preparedness. Read the report from this meeting on the WHO website. (November 2023)

Prof Susan Michie spoke at a UCL Lunch Hour Lecture about managing COVID-19. Human behaviour is at the heart of managing pandemic infections, for example wearing facemasks indoors when transmission is high and self-isolating when ill or testing positive for the disease. Behavioural science helps us to understand why such behaviours do or do not occur and to identify key influences on behaviour: people’s capabilities, motivations and/or opportunities to engage in certain behaviours. Watch the video on YouTube, or listen to the recording as a podcast on SoundCloud. (November 2022).