Changing Behaviour for Sustainable Development

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.

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Changing Behaviour for Sustainable Development -…

Changing Behaviour for Sustainable Development - Trailer

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Case studies: Avoid using single use plastics

Case studies: Avoid using single use plastics

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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…
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Case studies: Reducing homophobic language in the…

Case studies: Reducing homophobic language in the locker room

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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…
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Reducing food waste in schools, using behavioural…

Reducing food waste in schools, using behavioural insights

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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…
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Case studies: Behaviour change and COVID-19

Case studies: Behaviour change and COVID-19

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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…
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Behaviour change: WHO needs to do WHAT…

Behaviour change: WHO needs to do WHAT differently?

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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.…
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Behaviour change: Defining measures of success

Behaviour change: Defining measures of success

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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…
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Reducing recycling contamination

Reducing recycling contamination

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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…
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Introduction to critical issues in behaviour…

Introduction to critical issues in behaviour change

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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…
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Protecting wetlands by changing cropping…

Protecting wetlands by changing cropping practices on private land, using behavioural insights

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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…
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Improving waste separation in the operating suite

Improving waste separation in the operating suite

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The case study presented here had two main objectives; 1) to increase recycling and 2) to reduce the amount of general waste and recyclable items placed in the clinical…
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Taking behaviour change further

Taking behaviour change further

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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.…
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Behaviour change: Understand your target audience

Behaviour change: Understand your target audience

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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…
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Design and apply behaviour change interventions

Design and apply behaviour change interventions

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In this video, Dr Kun Zhao will discuss the Behaviour Change Wheel, and the variety of intervention options that are available. Dr Kun Zhao will also present some…
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What is behaviour and behavioural science

What is behaviour and behavioural science

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In this video, Liam Smith explore what behavioural science is, and what behaviour change tries to achieve. This video is not available under a Creative Commons license…
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Introduction to drivers and barriers of behaviour

Introduction to drivers and barriers of behaviour

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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…

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