Mikayla Ford, Head of the BC Behavioural Insights Group (BC BIG). As the new Head of BC BIG, Mikayla Ford is perfectly positioned to look backwards and forwards at BC BIG’s ongoing evolution. We discuss how BIG’s project intake and scoping process have matured, including how BIG decides which projects to pursue with which methods. Mikayla also shares recent BIG work, current topics on BI units’ radars, key BI skills, and excellent advice for navigating the sometimes bumpy BI project road.

Using BI to Find the Simplicity Buried in the Complexity (Episode 43)

Join host Kirstin Appelt, Research Director of UBC Decision Insights for Business &amp; Society (UBC-DIBS), as she interviews Behavioural Insights enthusiasts and experts from BC and beyond to explore:&nbsp;how BI is being used to tackle societal and planetary challenges,&nbsp;how BI skills are used across sectors,how BI intersects with other fields,&nbsp;how to conduct BI projects,&nbsp;and how BI is advancing with new research.Liner notes: Calling DIBS is recorded and edited on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh). Calling DIBS is edited by Rishad Habib, Siobhan Cook, Isabella Jaramillo, Parnian Ashrafi, Kashish Khatri, and Kirstin Appelt. Intro and outro music are excerpts from “resonance” by airtone (2020; http://ccmixter.org/files/airtone/61321), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0).&nbsp; New episodes are posted regularly September-May.&nbsp;