Nudging social tenants: effects, ethics and evaluation of behavioural insights

该项目解决了政治地理学家对研究的迫切需求，该研究详细检查了行为公共政策（BPP）的效果、伦理和评估策略。该项目的具体目标是通过对英国和荷兰进行比较研究，包括困难语言培训和海外实地考察，实证证明行为公共政策对社会住房的影响。该项目概述了社会住房、可负担性、租户行为的“问题”如何在不同的背景下被框定，并考虑到更广泛的欧洲福利话语的责任和金融化。它审查正在使用何种评价方法和证据基础来评估行为改变干预措施的影响，并将通过进行调查和进行半结构化访谈等方式，收集有关参与行为实验的社会住房租户经验的新的定性数据。该研究质疑，尽管认知“失败”具有普遍的本质，但BPP是否对已经处于不利地位的社会群体产生了不均衡的影响，这些群体往往是此类干预的目标。海外实地考察将包括：-与房屋政策工作人员、行为洞察工作人员、顾问、房屋从业人员和租户进行半结构化访谈。-对上述参与者资料进行q法调查。-在案例研究现场观察和参与BPP工作。-估计需要4-6个月。-将于2019年10月进行为期四周的荷兰语集中培训，涵盖基本语法要点，为持续的自学和文件翻译提供结构框架。它被用来识别和询问荷兰人特有的概念，它打算用荷兰语进行部分半结构化访谈和q分类。第一代移民和年长的荷兰人往往英语不流利。这项研究将附属于地理、地球和环境科学学院的具体地理学研究小组和社会政策学院的家庭资产和储蓄管理中心。

This project addresses an urgent need identified by political geographers for research which examines in detail the effects, ethics and evaluation strategies of behavioural public policy (BPP). The specific aim of the project is to empirically demonstrate the impact of behavioural public policy in social housing by undertaking a comparative study of the UK and the Netherlands, including Difficult Language Training and Overseas Fieldwork. The project outlines how the 'problem' of social housing, affordability, tenant behaviour is framed in different contexts, and in light of wider European welfare discourses of responsibilisation and financialisation. It examines what methods of evaluation and evidence bases are being used to assess the impact of behavioural change interventions, and will collect new qualitative data on the experiences of social housing tenants involved in behavioural experiments by, for example, undertaking a survey and conducting semi-structured interviews. The research asks whether BPP has uneven effects on already disadvantaged social groups who are often the target of such interventions, despite the purportedly universal nature of cognitive 'failures'.The overseas fieldwork will include:- Semi-structured interviews with housing policy workers, behavioural insights workers, consultants, housing practitioners and tenants.- Q-method survey of the above participant profile.- Observation and participation of BPP work in action at case study sites.- It is estimated this will take 4-6 months.- Dutch language training will be undertaken intensively for four weeks in October 2019 covering the essentials of basic grammar, providing a structural framework to facilitate ongoing self-instruction and document translation. It is used to identify and interrogate concepts unique to the Dutch and it intended part of the semi-structured interviews and Q-sorts will be conducted in Dutch. First generation immigrants and older Dutch tend not to be fluent in English. The research will be attached to the Embodied Geographies research group in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and the Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM) in the School of Social Policy.