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Behavioural Interventions in Health

Today, I chaired our team meeting. I was able to convince our senior executive to creatively come up with a behavioural intervention to address the unfolding public health crisis.

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Research on Accessibility in Recruitment

The past couple of months, my work life has been dominated by our project to improve retention and promotion of people work disability.

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International Day of People With Disability

For International Day of People With Disability, I presented on our fieldwork to improve career outcomes for people with disability.

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Reflections

It’s close to a three and a half years since I moved to Sydney for work. Here is a reflection on my research to date.

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Research to End Recidivism

I presented on our work to improve service delivery to groups at high risk of recidivism. We discussed the overlaps with health programs.

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Redesigning Programs

This social science project identified what stops people from voluntarily signing up to free rehabilitation programs. These results may help other community programs to improve their services.

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Emergency Decision-Making

Behavioural science can help to address emergency decision-making and reduce fatalities in the community. We conducted a masterclass with the New South Wales State Emergency Service (NSW SES) to look at the issue of driving through floodwater.*

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Water Mismanagement Impacting Aboriginal Communities

Racist policies are making remote Aboriginal communities sick. At least three communities in Central Australia have levels of uranium in drinking water that exceed health guidelines, with dozens more not meeting good quality.

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Improving Management of Social Media

Social science offers sophisticated methods for governments to better understand social media. Social scientists are using established research techniques to improve meaningful collection of social data via social media.

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