Research doesn’t just involve collecting and analysising data, or writing reports. It involves endless admin and negotiation. I returned to work on a data request, accessibility, public communications, plus equity and diversity planning.
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When you get a PhD, no one tells you how much of your research career will be spent doing admin, planning, and meetings! Today was a day filled with an abundance of these auxiliary tasks that keep research projects running on time and within allocated resourcing. From ethics, to stakeholder meetings about our research, to public communications, and getting ready for our intern, it was a packed day.
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To explain the analysis planning that we’re doing at the moment, I’ll tell you about our broader methodology that we use for all our randomised control trials.
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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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The last two days I’ve continued working with our colleagues to refine the messages that were going to be testing as part of our randomised control trial. A randomised controlled trial is where you have two conditions people can be randomly allocated into: either a control group or an treatment group. You have an equal chance of being allocated to either of those.
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We had a meeting with our privacy commission team who is providing us some advice on our recommendations to improve data systems and processes for people disability.
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I attended the committee meeting for our research grants and it went really well. It was a three-hour meeting. It was interesting to do it online, as it was very intense but it was a great workshop with great people.
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I have been working on my reviews for a research grant committee that I sit on. I spent one day reading all the applications and then updated my notes. For now, it’s about making them presentable for the rest of the panel. Obviously, I like to give useful and constructive feedback to applicants.
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A very hectic and long couple of days! In the morning, we were all pulled into give some advice about improving services during the COVID-19 public health outbreak. It was really valuable work to which our entire team contributed. The results were amazing. But it did disrupt my day’s schedule.
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Today was packed with challenges, met with valiance. Applied research is never easy. Sometimes compelling data and a statistically significant result aren’t enough to drive change. Instead, we may need to create a case to have findings and recommendations actioned.
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