News and Events

Kiitos Suomi (Thank you Finland)
Patrick Ladbury, Monday, November 14, 2011 - 11:45

Rowena and I had another two good days in Finland last week after my previous blog. We had a great response to the session we ran at the University with lots of people interested in finding out more and looking forward to the translation of our Big Pocket Guide into Finnish.

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Finnishing school
Patrick Ladbury, Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 02:00

Rowena and I are in Helsinki at the moment doing some training and project work with the Institute of Public Health and RAY, a major funder of public health work in Finland.

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New behaviour change resource from The NSMC
Monday, November 7, 2011 - 16:26

The NSMC has updated its Big Pocket Guide to using social marketing for behaviour change.

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The NSMC at the UK Social Marketing Conference
Monday, November 7, 2011 - 12:22

The NSMC team will be at stand 9 of the exhibition area at the UK Social Marketing Conference in Brighton tomorrow.

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User guides for value for money tools now available
Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 01:00

Health professionals wanting to evaluate the value for money of their behaviour change programmes now have extra help from The NSMC.

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Zombie preparedness...
Aiden Truss, Friday, October 21, 2011 - 10:26

Tags: PSA|public service announcement|zombies

Just in time for Halloween, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the US have published a graphic novelisation of their zombie themed disaster preparedness guidelines.

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The NSMC's e-learning course is now live
Monday, October 17, 2011 - 11:11

We've just launched our online e-learning course, A social marketing approach to behaviour change.

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Drinking culture...
Aiden Truss, Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 16:04

Tags: alcohol|binge drinking|social norms

While some of us may bristle at the thought of one of our Great British passtimes coming under the scrutiny of anthropologists, SIRC's Kate Fox has posited an interesting socialogical take on our national 'problem' with alchohol.

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Stages of Change are not enough...
Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 10:13

The independent Cochrane Library have just published a report questioning the effectiveness of the Stages of Change (SOC) approach to the Trans Theoretical Model (TTM) of behaviour change.

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A change will do you good
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 16:07

The NSMC's Patrick Ladbury took part in a webinar on social marketing today hosted by The Nursing Times.

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