Website and Graphic Design in Applied Research
I’ve been away a long time and I wanted to restart my series on A Day in Applied Sociology, to shed light on what it’s like to be an applied sociologist. First, I wanted to show you how I manage my public sociology with my paid work. Second, I wanted to reflect on what it’s like learning website and graphic design for business, research and social policy audiences.
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Indigenous Sociology for Social Impact
As part of this month’s focus on sociology and activism, The Sociological Review has republished my previous work on Indigenous Sociology for Social Impact.
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Research Admin
Research doesn’t just involve collecting and analysising data, or writing reports. It involves endless admin and negotiation. I returned to work on a data request, accessibility, public communications, plus equity and diversity planning.
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Meetings, Accountability and Careers
I had a really great outcome I am eager to share with you. I will also encourage you to explore public information and accountability avenues, and discuss how you can get a job in a specialist policy team. Finally, how much do you know about Sydney? Test your knowledge on the quiz at the end of this post!
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Planning Research
When you get a PhD, no one tells you how much of your research career will be spent doing admin, planning, and meetings! Today was a day filled with an abundance of these auxiliary tasks that keep research projects running on time and within allocated resourcing. From ethics, to stakeholder meetings about our research, to public communications, and getting ready for our intern, it was a packed day.
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Approvals for Applied Research
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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Methodology for Running a Project
To explain the analysis planning that we’re doing at the moment, I’ll tell you about our broader methodology that we use for all our randomised control trials.
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Reality of Managing Research
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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Preparing to Test and Market Design
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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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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Social Science Insights 