Sanchayan Banerjee is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Economics and Public Policy at the Policy Institute in King’s College London. He is a visiting fellow of the London School of Economics and an affiliate of Amsterdam Sustainability Institute and the Institute for Environmental Studies in Amsterdam.

His research focusses on developing citizen-oriented, participatory behavioural public policies and testing their effectiveness and legitimacy using experiments (field, lab and online) in areas of food policy, energy policy, public health, and charitable donations. Sanchayan has co-developed the NUDGE+ toolkit with Peter John.

Sanchayan is a seasoned university teacher with more than 8 years of teaching experience. He is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and holds a University Teaching Qualification (BKO) in the Netherlands. He is also an accredited external examiner in the UK. He has won three LSE Teaching Awards consecutively and two teaching innivation grants at VU Amsterdam.

Sanchayan holds a PhD (2022) and MSc (2018) from the London School of Economics. Previously, Sanchayan was a (tenured) Assistant Professor of Environmental and Behavioural Economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2022-2024).

Research Interests

Behavioural economics, environmental economics, experimental economics, public policy

Editorial positions

Editorial board member of Scientific Reports, PLOS One, Humanities & Social Science Communications

Guest Editor: Policy and Society, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Behavioural Public Policy

Previously: co-Editor, New Voices, Behavioural Public Policy

Research Supervision

Sanchayan is open and available to supervise doctoral research students in areas of environmental policy, health policy and charities using behavioural insights and experiments. Please reach out to him if you are interested to apply.

Selected Publications

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Sanchayan, Banerjee., & Ferreira, A. (forthcoming). Virtual Reality is Only Mildly Effective in Improving Forest Conservation Behaviors. Scientific Reports.

Sanchayan, Banerjee., & Veltri, G.A. (forthcoming). Harnessing pluralism in behavioural public policy requires insights from computational social science. Frontiers in Behavioural Economics.

Banerjee, Sanchayan., & John, P. (2024). Nudge plus: Incorporating reflection into behavioural public policy. Behavioural Public Policy. doi: 10.1017/bpp.2021.6

Gerver, M., Banerjee, Sanchayan, John, P., (2024). Nudging against consent is effective but lowers welfare. Scientific Reports. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-65122-0

Banerjee, Sanchayan., Grune-Yanoff, T., John, P., Moseley, A. (2024). It's time we put agency in behavioural public policy. Behavioural Public Policy. doi: 10.1017/bpp.2024.6

Sanchayan Banerjee, Peter John, Brendan Nyhan, Andrew Hunter, Richard Koenig, Blake Lee-Whiting, Peter John Loewen, John McAndrews, Manu Savani. (2024). Thinking about default enrollment lowers vaccination intentions and public support in G7 countries, PNAS Nexus, pgae093, doi: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae093

Thamer, P., Banerjee, Sanchayan, John, P. (2024). Reflection after nudging improves uptake of plant-based diets: A field experiment in a German university cafeteria. Environmental Research Communications. doi: 10.1088/2515-7620/ad2625

Ghai, S., & Banerjee, Sanchayan. (2024). The future of experimental design: Integrative, but is the sample diverse enough? Behavioral and Brain Sciences. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X23002212

Richard Koenig, Manu Savani, John McAndrews, Blake Lee-Whiting, Sanchayan Banerjee, Andrew Hunter, Peter John, Peter John Loewen, & Brendan Nyhan. (2024). Public support for more stringent vaccine policies increases with vaccine effectiveness. Scientific Reports. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-51654-y

Banerjee, Sanchayan, Galizzi, M.M., John, P., & Mourato, S., (2023). Reflection before a nudge improves sustainable dietary choices in an online experiment. Nature Sustainability. doi: 10.1038/s41893-023-01235-0