One pager: Increasing disability identification in the Australian Public Service (APS)

BETA worked with the Australian Public Service Commission across two projects to improve communications provided to APS employees about disability information collection.

All government agencies collect employee data, including disability information, in HR systems. The decision to share disability information is a personal one and there are organisational, systemic and personal barriers to doing so.

Guidance materials

We consulted with APS employees with disability and HR professionals, to develop guidance materials for APS HR professionals.

The Behavioural Insights Practitioner’s Network: Building an active and engaged community of practice

Within the Australian Public Service, we're lucky to have a highly active and engaged community of behavioural insights practitioners – The Behavioural Insights Practitioners Network (BIPN). Established over 5 years ago, the network now has practitioners across 22 government agencies. Whether they have a background in psychology, economics, data or public policy (to list a few), our members share one common purpose; in applying evidence from the behavioural sciences to help improve public policy and service delivery.

Home Energy Upgrades

Undertaking home energy upgrades can reduce households’ energy bills, as well as reducing Australia’s carbon emissions.

Using machine learning to analyse job ads – Part 2

This is Part 2 of our blog series on how we used machine learning to analyse gendered language in job ads. In this blog, we go through the technical nitty gritty of how BETA analysed 12 million job ads, and what we found.

Evaluating EVA - Pursuing universal healthcare coverage with a personalised COVID-19 vaccine booking service

To help Australians find and book a COVID-19 vaccine appointment, the Department of Health and Aged Care (Health) partnered with Healthdirect Australia to deliver the Easy Vaccine Access (EVA) call service from 28 March 2022 to 4 December 2023. Health approached BETA to evaluate the program.

Using machine learning to analyse job ads – Part 1

Thanks to the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, we’ve all become aware of the power of natural language processing (NLP). But what is NLP? BETA explores the common terms and make sense of some of the hype.

BI at work: building safe and inclusive workplaces

 

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BI topics: session on inflation, systems change and healthcare access

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BI and climate change: consumer climate behaviours and risk mitigation

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BETA in 2023

2023 was a time of change and excitement at BETA. We started the year with big news, and wrapped up with big data; several of our projects related to workforce issues, including disability and return to work; and we continued to engage with the big issues in behavioural science, connecting with colleagues across the APS and beyond.
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