UCL (University College London)
- Start Date: 07 Oct, 2024
- 4 weeks
- Study Content: Videos
Explore behaviour change frameworks, and how they can be used to enable behaviour change in yourself and others.
Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility
Course Description
This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.
Learn how to change important behaviours in your personal or professional life
People all over the world are facing multiple serious threats to their well-being. From global warming to the burden of chronic disease, there is a need for different disciplines and professionals to work together towards a common purpose of helping people to behave differently.
On this course, you’ll be supported to think about problems in terms of behaviours and apply principles and practices that can enable change.
Discover why behavioural science is important
Using frameworks based on behavioural science, you’ll learn a systematic method for developing interventions.
You’ll consider how to define a behaviour, and then see how to distinguish behaviours from what influences them and the outcomes they lead to.
Explore behaviour change tools
You’ll be introduced to three behavioural science tools, understand how they link together, and how they can be applied. You will also learn how to select key behaviours from a ‘system’ of behaviours.
As you find out how to think about behaviours in their context, you’ll conduct a ‘behavioural diagnosis’ to understand what influences them, and develop appropriate intervention strategies.
To understand behaviours and design interventions to change them, you will become familiar with the Capability Opportunity Motivation – Behaviour (COM-B) model, the Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW), and the Behaviour Change Techniques Taxonomy (BCTT).
From behavioural science interventions to policies
Behavioural science experts at UCL will guide you through different types of behaviour change intervention and related policy options.
You’ll leave this course understanding key principles and practices of behaviour change. You’ll learn how to apply these to the problems you want to tackle and emerge confident about how to change behaviours for the better.
This course is designed for learners who would like an entry-level understanding of behaviour change. If you want to know more about behaviour and how to change it to create a healthy and happy population, and a sustainable world, this course is for you.
Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.
UCL (University College London)
UCL was founded in 1826. It was the first English university established after Oxford and Cambridge, the first to open up university education to those previously excluded from it, and the first to provide systematic teaching of law, architecture and medicine.
UCL is among the world’s top universities, as reflected by performance in a range of international rankings and tables. UCL currently has over 35,000 students from 150 countries and over 11,000 staff. UCL’s annual income is more than £1 billion.
This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.
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