Research
Research hub
Explore peer-reviewed papers, applied projects, talks and recordings, and the Inauthentic Action definitional page.
Research papers
Peer-reviewed thesis, journal validation, and preprints — each with its own page, citations, and PDFs.
Submitted 17 December 2018 — Australian Catholic University
A Psychosocial Stage of Change Approach to Unemployment
Improving Employment Outcomes for the Unemployed Through Behavioural Science
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April/May/June 2017 — Journal of Rehabilitation, Volume 83, Number 2, pp. 3–10
Validating a Stage of Change Tool to Predict Employment Outcomes
The peer-reviewed validation study behind the Assessment of Work Readiness (AWR)
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2020 — OSF Preprints, Center for Open Science
A Jobseeker Segmentation & Intervention Model
Evaluation of the Treatment Utility of a Jobseeker Segmentation and Intervention Program
Read paper →Research projects
Case studies and partner programmes — methodology and outcomes separate from the paper library.
BUSY at Work
The SMudging Method
A seven-principle SMS nudging framework that increased apprentice calls answered by 35% (~18,000 additional conversations annually) — validated with BUSY at Work, drawing on text-message nudging evidence including a meta-study of 689,000 participants.
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BUSY at Work
The Friction-to-Flow Method
A sludge-reduction and cognitive-load framework that cut first-month apprentice dropouts by 31% and phone script content by 47% at BUSY at Work — less communication, designed better, within full contractual compliance.
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All research projects
Browse every case study and long-form project page.
View all →Talks & presentations
Selected recordings with embeds — open any talk for the full page, transcript blocks, and schema where published.
21–23 October 2025
Speeding Up Wellbeing Adoption Through Behavioural Science
A talk at the Third National Forum on Australia's Wellbeing, Redefining Business session
August 2018
From Nature to Nurture: The Behavioural Science of Young People
A keynote at YES Summit 2018, on adolescent neuroscience and decision-making for the youth employment services sector
3 June 2015
Is Positive Psychology on a Negative Trajectory?
An ACU Institute for Positive Psychology & Education Brown Bag presentation
Inauthentic Action
Employment-context stage where visible action masks underlying precontemplation — canonical URL for academics, press, and partners.
Canonical definition
Full definitional page: evidence, diagnostic pattern, coercion & identity, and how ethyx detects the stage.
Open Inauthentic Action →2017 — Journal of Rehabilitation
Peer-reviewed introduction of the pattern (originally “unauthentic action”) with n = 1,213 unemployed adults.
Open paper →PhD thesis hub
Four-study programme (~24k jobseekers), methods, and downloads — umbrella empirical context.
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