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Hecticness of Leave

I’m on leave. The day before I went on leave, everybody wanted everything from me, because I was going on leave, even though I’m only away for three business days. In order to go on leave, I had to deal with a request for a “quick trial,” providing advice on null results, and managing staff remotely.

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Public Health Trial in the Field

All of my waking hours are dominated by our public health randomised control trial, which is currently in the field.

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Public Health Trial

It’s been a while! I’ve been working long hours the past couple of months. These last few weeks, I’ve been up until 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. and working on the weekends. But it’s all been worth it because our randomised control trial to address COVID-19 behaviours is being launched on Monday!

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Juggling Research

I’m currently managing three large research projects, plus our media. I’ve had two big weeks preparing for our public health trial, planning an ethics application, delivering a workshop, finalising results of a project that’s been scaled across the state, and managing our public communications under less than ideal timing.

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Bibliography and Cyber Training

Today was another day of back-to-back meetings and workshops. I worked on managing our team’s bibliography and our cyber security project.

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Public Health Planning

Back to back meetings from 9:00am through to the afternoon. Most were for planning our randomised control trial in public health.

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Scaling a Research Project

A big day running communications for my team, as well as planning one of our randomised control trials. I spent most of the day drafting a ‘do it yourself’ guide on scaling a successful trial.

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Website Woes

I had Friday off. I ran around doing errands and I spent the day in Newtown. It was lovely! The rest of the weekend was pretty relaxed, though I also worked a little on my personal research. I hope to be able to tell you about that soon. In addition, there was a big technical hiccup to attend to.

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Ethics and Cyber Security

I spent the first half of the day working on our ethics application for my new randomised control trial, which is rapidly moving into fieldwork. The second half was spent on a rapid research proposal for testing cyber security awareness.

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Equity Training

The last couple of weeks, I’ve been working on a couple of different projects. I’m scoping three research projects to increase compliance and awareness of cyber security. Another project seeks to improve behaviours on COVID-19 safety. The other big chunk of work is for our disability inclusion steering committee.

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