Human behaviour is at the heart of the SDGs, and many of the challenges faced by society today. We need to harness behavioural insights, to understand human behaviour, what drives it and what can change it.
These videos are from the SDG Academy online course Changing Behaviour for Sustainable Development, developed in partnership with BehaviourWorks Australia and the Monash Sustainable Development Institute. It first launched in 2022.
These videos are from the SDG Academy online course Changing Behaviour for Sustainable Development, developed in partnership with BehaviourWorks Australia and the Monash Sustainable Development Institute. It first launched in 2022.
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In this video, Dr Kim Borg discusses a project she was involved with about the problem of the use of single use plastics, and the influence of media campaigns that aim…
Case study: Avoid using single use plastics
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Enroll in Changing Behaviour for Sustainable Development. This video is not available under a Creative Commons license and should not be considered open content.…
Changing Behaviour for Sustainable Development -…
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At the start of any behaviour change project, it is imperative that we gain a good understanding of the problem. Part of understanding the problem involves understanding…
Understand the problem and the system it sits…
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Once we have understood a problem, and have identified WHO needs to do WHAT differently, we can begin to apply an effective process of understanding what influences that…
Introduction to drivers and barriers of behaviour
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Behaviour change can take place in all contexts and environments that involve humans. In the case of the following video, behaviour change involved reducing the use of…
Case studies: Reducing homophobic language in the…
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Food waste is a global issue, compromising both human health and environmental sustainability. Schools alone contribute substantial amounts of avoidable food waste to…
Reducing food waste in schools, using behavioural…
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The following video features the Waste and Circular Economy Collaboration - a collaboration between BehaviourWorks Australia and its partners. The project aims to…
Reducing recycling contamination
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The COVID-19 pandemic was and is a complex global challenge. It is one of the most recent examples in history where a big change in behaviour was made by a large…
Case studies: Behaviour change and COVID-19
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When we have a clear idea of a behaviour we want our target audience to perform, we are able to take a deep dive into understanding that behaviour, and the specific…
Consider drivers and barriers of behaviour
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It is very easy to assume that we know our problems or challenges well; that we understand their origins, and where the responsibility to address the problems lies.…
Behaviour change: WHO needs to do WHAT…
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Once we know who we want to work with to address a behaviour change problem, we need to learn more about this group. In this video, Dr Sarah Kneebone will explore the…
Behaviour change: Understand your target audience
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Establishing the success of your behaviour change campaign is critical in ensuring that your resources have been well spent, that the time you and other stakeholders…
Behaviour change: Defining measures of success
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We need to think carefully and critically when designing “WHO needs to do WHAT differently, WHEN and WHERE”, to have a good idea of WHY. Principles to be…
Introduction to critical issues in behaviour…
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With a drying climate, cropping poses risks to wetlands and swamps. While laws exist to protect wetlands on private land, in the absence of significant enforcement…
Protecting wetlands by changing cropping…
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We can only know that our intervention has been effective if we can measure it. So, alongside designing our intervention, we need to think about implementing it in a way…
Introduction to behaviour change interventions
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We hope that following a behaviour change process, such as the one you have learnt about in this course, will enable you to obtain successful behaviour change outcomes.…
Taking behaviour change further
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