The Department of Home Affairs commissioned BETA to evaluate the effectiveness of communication in participants’ home languages on increasing participation in the AMEP.

BETA partnered with the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) to apply behavioural insights to the design of energy bills.

BETA collaborated with the Department of Home Affairs to evaluate the effectiveness of cyber security labels in the Australian context, to test how they influence people’s purchasing decisions, and understand how they influence awareness about the risks of insecure smart devices.

Building on BETA’s work with the Australian Financial Security Authority (AFSA) on applying behavioural science to the Personal Property Securities Register, BETA and AFSA are evaluating the impact of selected recommendations.

BETA partnered with AFSA on two projects to determine how to best communicate about the consequences of bankruptcy.

This report informed the work of the Retirement Income Review by presenting results from an online survey about retirement planning, saving and attitudes.

BETA and ASIC partnered to design and test information statements to help support consumer decision-making about add-on insurance.

BETA partnered with the Department of Social Services to determine the effect of behaviourally-informed activity statements on gambling behaviour in a simulated game.

BETA designed a new behaviourally-informed app called ‘Grok’. Grok aimed to improve university completion rates by growing student resilience through reminding students to connect with social groups and delivering practical wellbeing and study tips. We evaluated the impact of Grok on academic performance, completion, wellbeing and belonging.

BETA partnered with the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) to find ways of boosting the impact of an email alert system.