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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Yesterday, I joined 30,000 people in Sydney in protest for climate action. Over 100,000 people marched in other parts of the country.
This last week was full-on non-stop. Most of my work was collaborating on corporate tasks to manage scaling-up our study to broader populations, as well as a tool to monitor and alleviate workload.
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Another co-design workshop, this time with senior managers and executives. We received endorsement for our program of work and feedback on the design and testing of messages for vocational learners.
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Lunch break after our second co-design workshop for our vocational training project. We are scaling it out in April across the state.
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I’ve been interviewed for the Lady Science podcast. I talk about what sociology is, my career as an applied sociologist, and how Indigenous and other minority sociologists continue to challenge Western and colonial methods and ideas in sociology and in social policy.
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Some quiet planning before our presentation to our executive sponsor on the final results for our trial and recommendations for the way ahead.
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We presented our recommendations for scaling-up to senior managers, who were highly engaged and supportive.
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I presented on our project seeking to improve services for vulnerable people who are at risk of recidivism. The questions from the audience were interesting, from specifics about our methods, to how we can encourage conservative organisations to go through the cultural change required to adopt our recommendations.⠀
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Research shows many people have trouble noticing rubbish, even when it is prominent. Convenience of public bins, as well as reminding people about social norms, public funding , and novelty of design decreases littering.
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