Projects | Behaviour change, lifestyles and wellbeing
Pilot study: How to procure sustainable clothing in the NHS
Started: March 2010
Due for completion: October 2010
Defra
Defra has commissioned ERM, Colour Connections and Brook Lyndhurst to investigate how staff uniforms can be procured in the public sector with a greater emphasis on sustainable development (SD)....
How health empowerment can work for you
Started: February 2010
Due for completion: December 2010
London Sustainability Exchange (LSx)
A series of briefing notes from events targeted at Councillors on how to advocate health through community empowerment...
Needs assessment of 15 London-based frontline health organisations
Started: February 2010
Due for completion: May 2010
London Sustainability Exchange (LSx)
Brook Lyndhurst was commissioned by London Sustainability Exchange (LSx) to conduct focus group research to assess the needs of health professionals delivering frontline health and mental health services to Londoners....
Are labels the answer? Barriers to buying higher animal welfare products
Started: January 2010
Due for completion: April 2010
Defra
An investigation into how best to overcome barriers to consumers purchasing higher welfare food products...
Consumer understanding of green terms
Started: October 2009
Due for completion: March 2010
Defra
An investigation into consumer responses to, and understanding of, the terms used to refer to 'green' issues, from recycling to air miles; and from carbon footprints to water neutrality. ...
Evaluation of the Big Green Challenge Plus
Started: July 2009
Due for completion: December 2010
NESTA
Brook Lyndhurst is reviewing the work of the projects supported by NESTA's Big Green Challenge Plus in order to draw out key lessons for policy and future funds of this kind....
Testing innovative approaches for achieving pro-environmental behaviours - schools as networks
Started: April 2009
Due for completion: November 2010
Defra
This project aims to test a variety of techniques for encouraging pro-environmental behaviour in schools...
Evaluation of the Greener Living Fund
Started: February 2009
Due for completion: June 2011
Defra
Brook Lyndhurst has been appointed to evaluate the performance of Defra’s Greener Living Fund (GLF). The fund, launched in November 2008, will provide over £6 million in grants to eight delivery partners from the third sector....
Social capital: A rural perspective
Started: January 2009
Due for completion: November 2009
Defra
The research was designed to go beyond headline statistics relating to social capital and quality of life in rural areas and look in more depth at differing experiences in different rural locations. In particular it sought to investigate how social capital is experienced in rural England; what, if anything, distinguishes rural social capital from urban social capital; and if experiences of social capital are found to differ by person and place, what might help explain this difference.
This project continues Defra’s programme of research designed to deepen understanding of rural life in England and the experiences and needs of rural residents. It will feed into Defra’s departmental strategic objective (DSO) for strong rural communities by contributing to the body of evidence relating to how these needs may be addressed through public policy and service delivery....
Exploring catalyst behaviours
Started: November 2008
Due for completion: November 2009
Defra
An exploration of the knock-on effects of participation in pro-environmental behaviours, comprising an extensive literature review and original primary research....
Evaluation of the Big Green Challenge
Started: September 2007
Due for completion: December 2010
NESTA
A three-year project to conduct an ongoing and formative evaluation of NESTA’s ‘Big Green Challenge’ programme...
Evaluation of WRAP's Waste Reduction Advisors programme
Started: June 2009
Ended: December 2009
WRAP
Brook Lyndhurst carried out an evaluation of WRAP's Waste Reduction Advisor programme, which supports local authorities and other stakeholders to engage the public in waste prevention behaviours...
Household waste prevention evidence review
Started: October 2008
Ended: October 2009
Defra
A synthesis review to draw together findings from past research in order to provide an accurate and up-to-date picture of existing policy-relevant evidence about waste prevention and associated pro-environmental behaviour in the UK....
Assessment of green claims in marketing
Started: March 2009
Ended: October 2009
Defra
A review of 'green' claims in marketing from 2006 to 2009, taking in both statistical data and the perspective of the advertising and marketing community.......
A review of the Environmental Action Fund (EAF)
Started: January 2005
Ended: February 2009
Defra
A review of the Environmental Action Fund, a three year initiative supporting voluntary and community sector groups to further the government's sustainable development objectives...
Per capita carbon footprints
Started: January 2008
Ended: December 2008
Defra
An investigation into public responses to the provision of personal carbon information through carbon calculators and, in particular, Defra’s “Act On CO2” calculator....
The diffusion of environmental behaviours: The role of influential individuals in social networks
Started: January 2008
Ended: November 2008
Defra
An investigation into the notion of 'green' mavens, with a view to identifying specific opportunities for communications and policy...
Evaluation of the Climate Challenge Fund
Started: January 2008
Ended: October 2008
Defra / Decc
An evaluation of DECC's Climate Challenge Fund, which supported 83 climate change projects from across England with funds totalling £8.5 million between 2006 and 2008...
Online deliberative engagement: a pilot study
Started: November 2007
Ended: August 2008
Wellcome Trust
This study for the Wellcome Trust tested an innovative online tool for engaging the public with a view to extending its use to projects dealing with complex biomedical science issues...
Enhancing participation in kitchen waste collections
Started: October 2006
Ended: March 2008
Defra
An investigation into the ways in which individual and household attitudes and behaviours – together with service design – deter or encourage participation in food waste collections...
Climate Challenge: What must cities look like to meet the challenge of climate change?
Started: June 2006
Ended: March 2008
Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
An exploration of some of the ways in which urban areas in the UK might adapt in order to meet carbon emissions reduction targets...
Public understanding of sustainable energy consumption in the home
Started: February 2007
Ended: September 2007
Defra
A qualitative research project into public attitudes to domestic energy consumption, involving focus groups, in-home energy audits and follow-up, in-depth interviews. Analysis of attitudes across different segments of the population enabled us to make policy recommendations to Defra across five key behaviour goals (better energy management in the home, installing domestic micro-generation, insulation products & energy efficient appliances and switching to a green energy tariff). ...
Lifestyle scenarios: the future of waste composition
Started: October 2005
Ended: May 2007
Defra
In this major scenario-planning exercise for Defra’s Waste R&D team, Brook Lyndhurst developed a set of three scenarios to 2020 in order to better understand future waste arisings and composition....
Household food waste: attitudes and behaviours
Started: November 2006
Ended: April 2007
WRAP
This project was designed to gain a better understanding of public attitudes to food waste and the values that underpin them. The findings from the research, taken in conjunction with a number of parallel projects, fed into the development of WRAP's Love Food, Hate Waste campaign....
Embedding sustainable development in Government Office for London
Started: January 2007
Ended: March 2007
Government Office for London (GOL)
a consultancy exercise to explore the extent to which sustainable development is embedded into the operations of GOL...
Delivering regeneration through environmental improvements
Started: August 2006
Ended: January 2007
Environment Agency
Brook Lyndhurst was commissioned by the Environment Agency to show, through four case studies, how it contributes to regeneration through its environmental improvement, green space and community partnership projects. ...
London Food Strategy
Started: October 2004
Ended: May 2006
London Development Agency, London Food, Mayor of London and others
Brook Lyndhurst was responsible for researching and drafting the London Mayor's food strategy and for introducing amendments resulting from the public consultation on the document...
Innovative methods for influencing behaviours & assessing success: 'Nudging the S-curve'
Started: September 2005
Ended: January 2006
Defra
This project explored possible models for explaining how and why sustainable behaviours may, or may not, percolate through the population. ...
Sustainable local economies for health project (SLEHP)
Started: September 2004
Ended: April 2005
London Health Commission
As part of the "London Works for Better Health" project in collaboration with the London Health Commission, this project developed a framework for appraising what makes a local economy both sustainable and health-promoting. The research involved an in-depth literature review drawing on the evidence base in areas of diversity and recruitment, affordable housing, childcare provision, transport and skills. It also drew on the distinctive characteristics of London – as an economy and a place to live and work. The resultant framework is intended to enable employers to make informed decisions regarding health and sustainability....
Reward cards & healthy choices: A London scoping study
Started: October 2004
Ended: March 2005
London Region Public Health Group
This scoping study, for the NHS London Region, examined the potential for introducing reward card schemes to encourage healthy behaviours. ...
Brook Lyndhurst Blog
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Dear Sir/Madam
I reacted badly this week when, in response to a tender document I’d prepared, I received an email saying “Thank you for your submission, but I regret to inform you that you have been unsuccessful in your application…” It wasn’t the No that upset me - it’s an occupational hazard of competitive tendering, after all, and [...]
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Time to buy the Sustainable Development Commission?
News that the government has decided to withdraw its funding for the Sustainable Development Commission is prompting comment in a number of locations. I particularly enjoyed George Monbiot’s observation that the £1.9mn being saved is no more than ‘a rounding error’ on the Trident missile invoice. Having once been a Commissioner on the London Sustainable Development [...]
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Marketing to the marketers will be key for green claims guidance
Our research for Defra on the prevalence and content of green claims was published recently. The study – along with our work on consumer understanding of green terms – is feeding into a revision of Defra’s green claims guidance for marketers, the consultation for which closed in June. While researching a possible follow up story, one [...]