Today was productive. I completed our presentation on how to use behavioural science to improve communications with local communities. This will be presented by our partners at a workshop on Monday. I’m attending to observe discussions.
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I finished re-drafting the results for an old project, which is about workplace inclusion. Let’s also reflect on resourcing and workplace health and safety.
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Today I look at my personal research, creating a competition to promote our training game, and using behavioural science to improve public health communications.
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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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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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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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All of my waking hours are dominated by our public health randomised control trial, which is currently in the field.
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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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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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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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