I write on the topics of jobs, leadership and management, labour markets, economic growth and applied behavioural science. You can find links to my writing below

Economic policy and labour markets

• Living in the suburbs could take three years off your life. But it doesn't have to: The further you are from your state’s parliament house, the more likely you are to be disadvantaged. But greater local control of policy can change all that. The Guardian
• This is what will happen to Whyalla if Arrium closes: How will the Australian rural city of Whyalla survive large employment decline if a large steel refinary was to close. Medium
• Why cities are the laboratories of public impact: A short piece on how cities provide an ideal testing ground for new policies. Centre for Public Impact
• Your job will soon be automated – now work harder: An article on how government can help combat the disruption caused to the labour market by globalisation and automation. Apolitical
• These Two Charts Explain The Bubble In The Australian Property Market
• The UK’s new Industrial Strategy: a modern foundation for economic growth

Applied behavioural science

• Boosting businesses: applying behavioural insights to business policy: A guide for policymakers on how behavioural insights can make business policy more effective
• Applying behavioural insights to make workplaces safer: The EAST framework focuses on four simple principles to encourage a behaviour: make it Easy, Attractive, Social and Timely (EAST). This version of EAST focuses on how the behavioural insights approach can help keep people safe when they are at work
• Your training programme isn’t working – here’s how to make sure it does: More than £200bn is spent globally on learning and development every year. This report explores whether any of it actually works and what can be done to improve the training landscape
• Can behavioural insights help businesses adopt new technologies and management practices?: We collaborated with Companies House to test different ways of communicating with businesses. Our aim was to encourage businesses to adopt a new technology and improve their management practices. In this case, that meant increasing the use of digital services (instead of paper) to file annual accounts alongside boosting the number of businesses that file their accounts on time
• Helping our public service leaders – the new Centre for Public Services Leadership: A report looking at the evidence for the impact of leaders in the public service and what works for developing public service leaders
• Why cricketers cheat (and you might too)
• 9 Ways Behavioural Economics Is Being Used On You This Christmas