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Writing an Executive Email

I drafted the email it’s going up to our executives seeking endorsement of our latest randomised control trial. It’s one of many steps that we still need to take before we can proceed and it’ll probably be two months before we get secretary sign off (the final approval before we can begin preparing to go into the field).

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Trial Protocol

We had a project team meeting to agree on the contents for trial protocol. This is the research documentation that outlines our entire methodology for our randomised control trials.

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User Testing

Today, I incorporated the feedback that we received overnight on our draft materials for our randomised control trial. I’m going to discuss user testing, and why it’s a big part of the applied sociology work that I do, running randomised control trials for social policy.

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Accessibility Audit

One key task I’ve been working on recently is our sector’s accessibility audit. I’m a member of the disability inclusion steering committee for our organisation. Together with a colleague, we are leading on workplace adjustments.

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Communication and Celebration

In between the trial work I shared with you last time, I’ve also been doing other work, of course, mostly on our communications.

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Planning a Randomised Control Trial

The last two days I’ve continued working with our colleagues to refine the messages that were going to be testing as part of our randomised control trial. A randomised controlled trial is where you have two conditions people can be randomly allocated into: either a control group or an treatment group. You have an equal chance of being allocated to either of those.

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Downtime

I did absolutely nothing on my day off . I just lounged around and read in the morning. In the afternoon, I went for a walk while I was talking to my family over video.

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Preparing for an Executive Presentation

Quite a lot do, and yet the day ended up not working out quite the way I planned. I had some leave planned from 12:30pm leading into a long weekend. I started off with a meeting that went longer than scheduled, but it was very productive. We’re trying to finalise the message frames that we’re thinking of testing in our online experiment.

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Media and Research Planning

We had a meeting with our privacy commission team who is providing us some advice on our recommendations to improve data systems and processes for people disability.

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Online Workshops

I attended the committee meeting for our research grants and it went really well. It was a three-hour meeting. It was interesting to do it online, as it was very intense but it was a great workshop with great people.

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