UCL Behavioural Science Careers Fair 2021

The UCL Behavioural Science Careers Fair 2021 is an online event for UCL students to connect with potential employers

We can't wait to welcome you to this event on April 15th from 4-6pm UK time.

Event Format: Click on the tiles below to learn about each of the 15 companies. Each company will have a link on their page where you can join their virtual call. Companies have set timings that they will let people in, so be sure to check their format and plan your time. See Event Schedule below for all timings. There will be an optional welcome session at 3:45 pm on this Zoom call. This Zoom room will remain open for the entire event with someone from UCL there to answer your questions.

Essentia Analytics

Essentia Analytics is the leading provider of behavioral data analytics and consulting for professional investors. Providing daily analysis on over $200 billion in assets, Essentia has helped its clients improve alpha generation by an average of 150bps per annum by mitigating their own behavioral biases.

Influence at Work

INFLUENCE AT WORK (IAW) is the behavioural science consultancy set up by two of the most renowned names in the field of behavioural science, Robert Cialdini and Steve Martin. Our books have sold over 6.5 million copies, our research is taught in major universities around the world and we have been applying our insights to deliver measurable impact for nearly 20 years.

The Behavioural Insights Team

The Behavioural Insights Team exists to improve people’s lives and communities. We work in partnership with governments, local authorities, businesses and charities, often using simple changes to tackle major policy problems. We have a track record of success across a range of policy areas, from healthcare to humanitarian aid, economic growth to early years, social capital to consumers.

Basis Social

In January 2021, Basis Research launched Basis Social - a social research practice focused on helping clients to shape effective public policy, communications and services. Led by Darren Bhattachary, former Kantar Insights CEO, and Dan Clay, former Head of Qualitative Research at Kantar Public, Basis Social delivers transformational insight by bringing together the best of commercial and social research.

The Behavioural Architects

We are an award winning, global insight, research and consultancy business. We specialise in understanding and influencing behaviour. Our approaches and methodologies are based on cutting edge behavioural science. We work across a range of sectors including finance, health and wellbeing, FMCG, digital and many more.

Healthcare Research Worldwide (HRW)

HRW is a healthcare market research agency who work with major pharmaceutical and healthcare companies. We help clients to answer their business questions by designing and running qualitative and quantitive research projects with their customer groups (healthcare professionals and patients).

Cowry Consulting

Cowry is an award-winning, behavioural science consultancy, on a mission to make businesses as human as humanly possible. As an expert team of psychologists, economists and data scientists fascinated by business, we understand what makes customers, colleagues and companies tick. We work with some of the world's leading companies, and apply the latest research in Behavioural Science, Psychology and Nudge Theory to help companies become experts in the choreography of thier Customer and Employee Experience. We are the Science behind Exceptional Experiences.

Hamell Communications

Hamell is a full-service health communications agency with a clear focus on delivering evidence-based, sustained behaviour change. Our goal is to improve patient health outcomes and ensure appropriate health care professional behaviour, whether in the form of more effective prescribing or in the case of pharmacy more effective recommendation behaviour through supporting and promoting patient adherence. Our clients are pharmaceutical companies, charities and health authorities, looking for comprehensive behavioural insights, a nudge in the right direction, or a complete creative campaign.

Shift Consultancy

We are a small team of consumer psychologists with a core expertise in understanding how consumers think, and specifically the role the unconscious mind plays in influencing behaviour. At the heart of our work is the recognition that there can be a big difference between what people say and what they actually think, feel and do. We understand why this gap exists in market research and how to overcome it. We work across numerous categories; everything from changing the behaviour of healthcare professionals and airport users, to creating new products and advertising campaigns.

Sentiance

Sentiance is an intelligence-driven data science and behavior change company. We turn motion data into contextual insights and use behavioral change techniques to personalize engagement for safer and sustainable mobility and wellbeing experiences. Sentiance empowers the world's leading companies to create personalized engagement services and products through intelligent contextual recommenders, delivering technology for a new human-centric economy where the user is in control of data.

What Works for Children's Social Care

We aim to improve the lives of children and families through setting standards and generating the best research into what works for children’s social care.

Innovia Technology

Innovia is a Cambridge-based innovation consultancy. We work in multidisciplinary teams to create new products and services for some of the largest companies in the world. Clients like Procter & Gamble, LEGO, KraftHeinz and Jaguar Land Rover trust us to help them invent the future. Our approach is ‘holistic’ – we bring together diverse capabilities to gain creative insights.

Swiss Re Group

Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime.

Kantar Public UK

We are the Behavioural Practice at Kantar Public UK: a full-service behavioural science consultancy focused on addressing the myriad challenges faced by government and the wider public sector. We’re a multi-disciplinary team and work on topics from Covid-19 vaccination to online disinformation. Our projects often involve sensitive issues, knotty problems and vulnerable audiences; and they make a real difference to the world we live in. Click here to find out more!

Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries — powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. With 506,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at www.accenture.com.