Covid-19 pandemic, and the reaction to it across the world, has created enormous disruption to the ways we live and work. Join us as Professor Nick Chater explains what behavioural science tells us about how well we can adapt to disruptive change, for how long, and which aspects of our changing lives we may want to keep. 

Particularly in light of the challenge of the Net Zero 2050 greenhouse gas target for the UK, and similar targets in other countries, are there opportunities to ‘build back greener’ rather than return to the prior status quo? 

Nick Chater

Professor Nick Chater joined WBS in 2010, after holding chairs in psychology at Warwick and UCL. He has over 200 publications, has won four national awards for psychological research, and has served as Associate Editor for the journals Cognitive Science, Psychological Review, and Psychological Science. He was elected a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society in 2010 and a Fellow of the British Academy in 2012. Nick is co-founder of the research consultancy Decision Technology; and is on the advisory board of the Cabinet Office's Behavioural Insight Team (BIT), popularly known as the 'Nudge Unit'.