Calling DIBS
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<p><b>Join host Kirstin Appelt, Research Director of UBC Decision Insights for Business & Society (</b><a href="http://sauder.ubc.ca/dibs"><b>UBC-DIBS</b></a><b>), as she interviews Behavioural Insights enthusiasts and experts from BC and beyond</b> <b>to explore: </b></p><ul><li><b>how BI is being used to tackle societal and planetary challenges, </b></li><li><b>how BI skills are used across sectors,</b></li><li><b>how BI intersects with other fields, </b></li><li><b>how to conduct BI projects, </b></li><li><b>and how BI is advancing with new research.</b></li></ul><p><br><b>Liner notes: </b>Calling DIBS is recorded and edited on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the <a href="https://www.musqueam.bc.ca/">xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam)</a>, <a href="https://www.squamish.net/">Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish)</a>, and <a href="https://twnation.ca/">Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh)</a>. Calling DIBS is edited by Rishad Habib, Siobhan Cook, Isabella Jaramillo, Parnian Ashrafi, Kashish Khatri, Olin Becker, and Kirstin Appelt. Intro and outro music are excerpts from “resonance” by airtone (2020; <a href="http://ccmixter.org/files/airtone/61321">http://ccmixter.org/files/airtone/61321</a>), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0). New episodes are posted regularly September-May. </p>
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- What is Calling DIBS?
<p><b>Join host Kirstin Appelt, Research Director of UBC Decision Insights for Business & Society (</b><a href="http://sauder.ubc.ca/dibs"><b>UBC-DIBS</b></a><b>), as she interviews Behavioural Insights enthusiasts and experts from BC and beyond</b> <b>to explore: </b></p><ul><li><b>how BI is being used to tackle societal and planetary challenges, </b></li><li><b>how BI skills are used across sectors,</b></li><li><b>how BI intersects with other fields, </b></li><li><b>how to conduct BI projects, </b></li><li><b>and how BI is advancing with new research.</b></li></ul><p><br><b>Liner notes: </b>Calling DIBS is recorded and edited on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the <a href="https://www.musqueam.bc.ca/">xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam)</a>, <a href="https://www.squamish.net/">Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish)</a>, and <a href="https://twnation.ca/">Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh)</a>. Calling DIBS is edited by Rishad Habib, Siobhan Cook, Isabella Jaramillo, Parnian Ashrafi, Kashish Khatri, Olin Becker, and Kirstin Appelt. Intro and outro music are excerpts from “resonance” by airtone (2020; <a href="http://ccmixter.org/files/airtone/61321">http://ccmixter.org/files/airtone/61321</a>), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0). New episodes are posted regularly September-May. </p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates weekly.
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