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Recruitment and Retention of People With Disability

Organisations have administrative hurdles and inadequate support that negatively impact the recruitment, career progression, and retention of people with disability.* This post covers three sets of findings. First, how to increase professional development opportunities for staff with disability. Second, how to ensure managers have better resources to facilitate disability inclusion and improve workplace adjustments. Third, recommendations on how to improve systemic problems.

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Surveys and Data Privacy

A whirlwind on community leaders, procurement and data privacy.

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Community Communications

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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Inclusion and Safety

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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Vaccination Research

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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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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How to Set and Achieve Goals

How can your business support customers in achieving their goals? Setting goals and making public commitments are ideal ways to encourage behaviour change, whether it’s improving our wellbeing at home, or delivering better services. Here are a few tips from social science.

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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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Public Health Trial in the Field

All of my waking hours are dominated by our public health randomised control trial, which is currently in the field.

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