Behaviour Change for Health, Environment and Safer Communities

Across environment and sustainability, speakers will explore how households navigate the competing pressures of overheating risk and rising energy costs. Drawing on longitudinal research, the webinar will highlight how climate adaptation and mitigation behaviours interact over time, and what this means for effective policy design and public engagement. In health and wellbeing, the focus turns to innovative approaches for harmonising behavioural data on childhood obesity, self-harm and suicidal ideation across the UK’s nations—informing better-targeted, evidence-based interventions. The session will also describe ongoing research on resilient communities, including community-led strategies to reduce speeding and emerging work to protect children from online harms. The data and technology theme will demonstrate how combining ontologies with interpretable machine learning can be used to evaluate large-scale national programmes, such as Swap to Stop. This session will be recorded and made available on the br-uk website afterward. See www.br-uk.ac.uk for more details.