About Nesta

Nesta is an innovation foundation. For us, innovation means turning bold ideas into reality and changing lives for the better. We use our expertise, skills and funding in areas where there are big challenges facing society.

Shibeal O' Flaherty

Shibeal O' Flaherty is a researcher co-leading the Healthier Happier Professionals programme at What Works for Children’s Social Care (WWCSC).

Shibeal is a researcher co-leading the Healthier Happier Professionals programme at What Works for Children’s Social Care (WWCSC), a large-scale project involving conducting randomised controlled trials to build evidence around what works to increase the well-being, motivation and retention of social workers, teachers and police officers across England.

Shibeal is also a full-time PhD student at King's College London with a research focus on designing interventions using behavioural science principles to improve overall well-being in the workplace.

Prior to WWCSC, Shibeal received her MRes (Organisational Behaviour) from UCL in 2019. She was a programme manager for the Harvard Behavioral Insights Group from 2016-2018, and received her MA Psychology (Hons) at the University of Aberdeen in 2015.