Last week was very challenging and I’m exhausted. As I’ve previously discussed, an applied research project requires several levels of executive approval that take at least two months, on top of ethics and other planning. This is not the same as academics, who can carry out whatever research they desire, without requiring any managerial approval. (If they’re doing primary research, however, including on humans, they will need ethics clearance, as do we.)

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Today was a huge day with back to back meetings because we’re moving from planning our methodology into testing the reality of implementation. In other words: we know what we want to test based on the research literature and our fieldwork, but how do we actually do this?

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We refined the message frames that were testing as part of our randomised controlled trial. As I’ve been chronicling daily, our team is testing different communication frames to improve diversity and inclusion awareness.

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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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