Coronavirus

It might not have been loud enough to hear, but a subtle half-time whistle blew over the past week. Three months into the biggest behaviour change project Ireland has ever participated in, we discarded our jerseys and took a breather.…

On this episode of The Behavioural Vaccine, Padraig and Kate  look at what we are doing and how we're eating and how these have changed over the course of the COVID-19 lockdown. So they try to figure out what we're eating, how we're…

After a lengthy break (sorry), we're back to talk all things US politics. In particular, we chat about the politics of the lockdown, is Joe Biden a new FDR, the Tara Reade allegations and who will he pick for VP? Plus... Trump. Steve…

Five years ago, I completed my master’s in English at university, which culminated in the submission of a fifteen thousand word thesis examining the significance of Gollum in the story of J.R.R Tolkien’s classic tales The Hobbit and The…

How are we doing? We're currently in the biggest behavioural intervention that there's ever been and almost 12 weeks into lockdown. Naturally, this is going to have an impact on how we feel. The central statistics office in Ireland…

In this week's episode of Basically... Stefanie speaks to confined rights expert Conor Pope about whether people’s rights to refunds and compensation regarding air and sea travel have changed because of the pandemic . Follow Stefanie on…

After some technical difficulties (PJ closes his laptop), the Dublanders dive into chat about heroes, shopping, and how some people have just given up. They talk about the government and people giving out about supporting charities, or the…

If you could measure anxiety levels the way you do temperature, right now, the world would be hotter than the Sahara. The coronavirus pandemic has ushered in societal changes in unprecedented ways. Unemployment is soaring, people are…

Our age, gender & personality influence our behaviour & likelihood to comply with social distancing. On today's episode of The Behavioural Vaccine, Padraig & Kate identify the film character that would be most likely to follow…

On the latest episode of the Behavioural Vaccine, Padraig and Kate talk about taking care of business. They outline the Behavioural steps that businesses need to take as they start to reopen in a world of social distancing and hygiene…