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Brought to you by Social Sense, R U Different? uses a social norms approach to measurably improve th R U Different?

and the Social Norms Approach

Social norms refers to our perceptions of what is ‘normal’ behaviour in the people around us. It has long been established that these beliefs are very influential on our own behaviour - so for example how much alcohol a person drinks will be strongly determined by how heavily they think their friends drink. Individuals have a tendency to follow the herd (or what they

20/11/2020

This week is Anti-bullying week, Social Sense brought “RUDifferent?” To Harrop Fold students a few years ago.
The aim of this intervention was to change cultural norms, creating new visibility of positive attitudes and behaviours often overlooked in terms of favour of negative awareness bias. Our approach to this was inspired by years of academic research from Wes Perkins and Alan Berkowitz and in particular evidence based social norming bystander interventions, which we later adapted to measurably change attitudes on domestic abuse.

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31/01/2020

Dylan at wrote and performed this poem for us. allows us to share our creative talents no matter what they may be. You can find art in almost everything! We were blown away by Dylan’s talent and had to share!

30/01/2020

We were completely blown away by the creativity and talents that we saw the other week during our enterprise days at the schools we attended. One person who really stood out to us was Dylan at Harpurhey Alternative Provision School.

Dylan wrote this rap himself inspired by his own previous experiences and performed it for us. We had to share!

23/01/2020

Angel at Our Lady's RC High School wrote a poem as part of her campaign for "RUDifferent" where we agreed on tasks to raise awareness surrounding community safety.

We loved the creativity and the message behind the poem. Well done to everyone! The result from all students was amazing.

Photos 23/01/2020
Can we use Social Norms to predict the future? 25/01/2016

The UniversityofSalford have today released an academic paper evidencing the effectiveness of our programme.

Using a range of data mining techniques from 57 schools over the last two years, the paper found overwhelming consistencies between movements of data resulting from our interventions, specifically around to***co usage..

Can we use Social Norms to predict the future? The eternal challenge when commissioning any mainstream preventative programme in health, crime or education is to measure the ‘what if’ in one, three, five or ten years’ time. Sometimes the ‘what ...

21/01/2016

We are looking for energetic youth workers based in to deliver our intervention days in schools between March and May this year. Please email [email protected] if you are interested!

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