The important questions

• We work directly with people trying to make health system change happen, so that our research answers questions that will have impact.
• We take a robust approach to data collection for evaluation too, so that we can help people understand the behavioural underpinnings of their projects.
• We use mixed methods, action research and user-involvement approaches where feasible.

Creating the science of behaviour

• We are multidisciplinary, global and committed to translating and creating the science of behaviour.
• Findings from TCE projects are pooled to answer underpinning questions about what drives the practice of healthcare professionals.
• Our scientific starting points are:
  • Behaviour is both automatic and reflective
  • Action and coping planning are not often used in education and might help educators bring about change in practice.

A direct pathway to impact

• We work with project teams, translating behavioural science to make their project more likely to achieve its aims.
• We use our large, international network of educators and health partnerships to gather data, implement findings and influence policy: we have a direct pathway to impact.

Making positive changes to healthcare

• We create learning resources so that educators and healthcare professionals can learn about what drives practice and how they might harness that knowledge to make positive changes to healthcare.
• We leave a ‘behavioural approach’ legacy with projects.