Social Science Impact Accelerator: Working with Personal Values for a Better World

Research by Bardi (lead applicant) and others indicates that personal values, like kindness and independence, guide goals and behaviours (e.g., Woltin, Sneddon, & Bardi, 2022; Levontin & Bardi, 2019). As a result, educators and public sector practitioners aim to encourage certain values and their resultant behaviours. Bardi’s findings offer clear recommendations for achieving this. The current proposal aims to address the challenge of ensuring that practitioners apply these findings effectively, with the following objectives: (1) To work with practitioners to co-create online tools and training materials to help them understand how to encourage the intended values in their practice. (2) To contact additional practitioners to offer online and training tools, co-create them, deliver workshops, and improve them for future use based on feedback. (3) To document usage and impact evidence. Evaluation of the project includes traceable online use, follow up questionnaires, practitioners’ testimonials, and materials created during training.

Creating web materials and training workshops for relevant organisations on how to implement Bardi's research findings on values to transmit the intended values and avoid transmitting unintended values. New and old ipact will be tracked .