Stakeholder Relations
Good news on my personal research, with new publications coming up. Plus, the everyday work of managing stakeholder relationships with senior executives and partner agencies.
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Work-Life Balance
Last year, I did near daily updates about what it’s like working as an applied sociologist. I wanted to promote more awareness about our careers beyond academia. I stopped doing the regular diary in October, except for the odd check-in. Here’s what I’ve been up to, along with reflections on work-life balance.
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Filming a Training Video
I was in the field today! Today’s the second of two days filming our training video to promote the use of our public health intervention.
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Scaling Successful Trials
I’m back at work this week. I was officially on holidays from the 16th of December until the beginning of this week, however, I ended up having to work every day of my holidays. That was because our public health trial, which need to be extended.
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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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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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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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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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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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