Consultancy
The UCL Experimental Psychology department, which houses the BIH, has over 50 experienced academics who might be the right fit for your organisation
Part of the UCL Behavioural Insights Hub.
If you are interested in working with one of our academic team, please email Pia Horbacki with a brief outline of what you are looking for.
We partner with individuals and organisations across the public, private and charitable sectors to improve services using evidence-based approaches from behavioural science.
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Our academic team
Dr Stephen Dewitt
Stephen studies how people reason, make decisions and solve problems both as individuals and in groups. He has worked with a large number of organisations in training and consultancy roles, including US Intelligence, HM Land Registry, Southern Water and Coventry Building Society.
Dr Alicia Melis
Alicia investigates the psychology supporting teamwork and prosocial behaviour. She works with children and with chimpanzees to explore how our social skills develop, and how insights from our closest-living primate relatives can inform our understanding of human behaviour.
Professor Dave Lagnado
Dave studies how people make decisions in an uncertain and changing world, with a focus on causality. He has written two books, Straight Choices and Explaining the evidence: How the mind investigates the world. Dave has worked with US intelligence, UK government, and various financial and tech companies, such as BlackRock, Nokia and Huawei.
Professor Lasana Harris
Lasana explores the brain and physiological correlates of person perception: how we see people, learn from them, make inferences about them, how they trigger our emotions, how we stereotype, dehumanize, punish, and make decision involving them, as well as how we anthropomorphise or see things that aren’t people as person-like. He has consulted with organisations including: Office of National Statistics, UK Gov. Office for Science, National Security Institute, US Institute for Peace, Unilever.
Dr Jennifer McGowan
Jennifer studies how to support and develop positive outcomes in individuals, populations and teams, including the development of research-led organisations. Jennifer has worked with a range of health and social care organisations, as well as schools, charities, UK government, and the NHS.
Professor Adam Harris
Adam is a Judgment and Decision Making researcher with special interests in effective risk communication and decision making. He has conducted research with surgeons, fingerprint examiners and weather forecasters, and provided consultancy to organisations including the Football Association, World Resource Institute, BEIS and DSTL.
Dr. Arunima Sarin
Investigates how people use rewards and punishments to teach, learn, and enforce social norms. Her research examines how individuals interpret feedback as a signal of values, intentions, and authority, and how these interpretations shape trust and behaviour in schools, organisations, and legal systems. Using behavioural experiments and computational models, she studies how punishment works as an effective teaching tool and when it risks creating resentment, misunderstanding, or social division