Thinking About Behaviour Change

How should we think about and understand human behaviour? What's the role of theoretical models? How can and should such models be used in practice? And what can we learn from the many different academic and practical perspectives on the subject?

This book, aimed at anyone with an interest in behaviour change, offers a fresh and challenging take on these questions. It comprises a Dialogue, which sets out key debates in a lively and accessible way, and 21 commentaries written from a wide range of standpoints, including academic, commercial and public sector.

The initial dialogue was constructed at the invitation of the University College London (UCL) Centre for Behaviour Change, following an event with the title 'Models of behaviour change: how useful are they?' hosted by the Centre on 2nd June 2014.

Its content draws on the event itself, and on interviews with Jamie Brown (UCL), Nicola Christie (UCL), Anthony Finkelstein* (UCL), Heather Gainforth (UCL), Graham Hart (UCL), Kate Jeffery* (UCL), Mike Kelly (NICE when interviewed), Susan Michie (UCL), John Owens (King's College London), Alan Penn (UCL), Jeremy Watson (UCL) and Robert West* (UCL). Interviewees who were also speakers at the CBC event are marked with an asterisk.

Further chapters contributed by:

2. Katherine Hardyment - Associate Director, Good Business
3. Alan Cribb - Professor of Bioethics and Education, Centre for Public Policy Research, King's College London
4. Richard L. Wright - Director of Sustainable Behaviour, Unilever
5. Nigel Shardlow - Director of Planning, Sandtable Ltd
6. Robert Holtom - Freelance Consultant and Writer
7. Chris Mills - Research Fellow, UCL Faculty of Laws
8. Michael P Kelly - Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge
9. Antonio Cabrales - Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University College London
10. Angel Sanchez - Professor of Applied Mathematics, Grupo Interdisciplinar de Sistemas Complejos, Departamento de Matematicas and Institute of UC3M-BS of Financial Big Data, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
11. John Fox - Professor, Department of Engineering Science, Oxford University
12. Michelle Baddeley - Professor in Economics and Finance, UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London
13. Dale Southerton - Director, Sustainable Consumption Institute and Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester (former Director, Sustainable Practices Research Group)
14. Daniel Welch - Research Associate, Sustainable Consumption Institute
15. Peter Fonagy - Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis, Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London
16. Liz Allison - Director, UCL Psychoanalysis Unit
17. Chloe Campbell - Research Fellow, UCL Psychoanalysis Unit
18. Maurice Biriotti - CEO of SHM and Professor of Medical Humanities, UCL
19. Peter Jones - Professor of Transport and Sustainable Development, Centre for Transport Studies, UCL
20. David Tuckett - Director, Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty, UCL
21. David Newkirk - Corporate advisor and educator; formerly CEO, Executive Education, University of Virginia's Darden School of Business and Senior Partner, Booz Allen Hamilton
22. Deborah Arnott - Chief Executive, ASH (UK)
23. Rob Farrands - Director, Figure Ground Consulting
24. Jonathan Rowson - Director, The Social Brain Centre, RSA
25. Victor J. Strecher - Professor and Director of Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, University of Michigan School of Public Health

What people are saying about the book:

This is a wonderful cornucopia of disciplinary perspectives on the age-old question of why we humans so often act against our own values and goals undermining population and planetary health, to nam

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