Calling DIBS

About Calling DIBS

Join host Kirstin Appelt, Research Director of UBC Decision Insights for Business & Society (UBC-DIBS (http://sauder.ubc.ca/dibs)), as she interviews Behavioural Insights enthusiasts and experts from BC and beyond to explore: how BI is being used to tackle societal and planetary challenges, how BI skills are used across sectors, how BI intersects with other fields, how to conduct BI projects, and how BI is advancing with new research. Liner notes: Calling DIBS is recorded and edited on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) (https://www.musqueam.bc.ca/), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) (https://www.squamish.net/), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) (https://twnation.ca/). 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; http://ccmixter.org/files/airtone/61321 (http://ccmixter.org/files/airtone/61321)), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0). New episodes are posted regularly September-May.

Publisher

Kirstin Appelt

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Sept 2020

Latest episode

22 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

115 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   22 Apr 2026

   Saving Lives with Organ Donation & Emergency Management (Episode 116)

   Karen Smallwood, Product Manager in Connected Services BC, BC Public Service. Karen Smallwood has an eye for how to use BI to save lives! Her capstone project team tackled organ donation from a new angle: It turns out many people assume they're registered donors when they're not! Drawing on her work in emergency management, Karen shares BI barriers faced by folks trying to prevent, prepare for, respond to, or recover from emergencies. She also tells us about Connected Services BC, which wil...

2. 

   8 Apr 2026

   Reducing Unemployment with BI (Episode 115)

   Faraz Haqqi, Principal Behavioral Designer at ideas42. Even highly skilled workers can struggle to find work. Faraz Haqqi provides a snapshot of ideas42’s projects tackling this challenge from Rwanda to Jamaica to Malaysia to the US. The projects approach the problem from a number of different angles, including helping employers provide apprenticeships and internships, helping training programs synch their curricula with market needs, and helping jobseekers complete job placement programs.&nb...

3. 

   25 Mar 2026

   Nudging School Enrollment (Episode 114)

   Katherine Flaschen, Principal Behavioral Designer at ideas42. ideas42's Katherine Flaschen explains how to tackle complex challenges like "improving educational outcomes" by using a step-by-step process and focusing on meaningful, movable, and measurable behaviours. To illustrate, Katherine shares a project using social norms and present bias to encourage caregivers to enroll girls in school. Katherine also shares key advice like centring target populations and building partner capacity...

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

72

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 43 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

37

Social presence

0

YouTube

63

Engagement

60

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