Workplace Survey
I reflect on an example of how to use results from employee feedback in a productive way. I also cover some technical aspects of project management for our online training game.
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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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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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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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Workplace Adjustments During COVID-19
I mostly worked on my project to improve outcomes of people with disability in the workplace. This included acting on some of the recommendations that came from some meetings I attended last week. I also put together a survey for testing some of the message frames that we could use to improve take up of training on disability inclusion.
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Love of the ‘Why’ of Things
For International Women’s Day, I attended, In Conversation – Governor-Designate The Honourable Margaret Beazley AO QC.
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Social Networks at Work
People’s social relationships are organised in clusters – groups of individuals who are connected together, who share norms and values, and who exchange information.
Knowledge tends to stick within each cluster, but there are people who have bridging social ties to more than one group. Let’s delve deeper using social science. Continue reading “Social Networks at Work”
Strengthening Interdisciplinary Teams
I have worked in both interdisciplinary teams where everyone’s skills and knowledge were fused into new technologies, and I’ve also worked in multidisciplinary teams where everyone carried out their specialist jobs whilst working towards a common goal. In both settings, our teams tried and failed with different engagement styles because of our education and training gave us different perspectives, and our personalities and modes of interaction were so different. Today, I want to share one specific strategy that worked well in increasing positive interdisciplinary collaboration.
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Team Building
A colleague and I organised a board game afternoon as a team building exercise late. We had so much fun.
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Social Science Insights 