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 as Corporate Discourse
Workplaces focus on individual behaviour as a measure of work/ life balance. Social science places the issue of health and wellbeing in a broader socioeconomic context.
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Increasing Take-Up of Training Services
Employers can reduce the number of people dropping-out of vocational training by encouraging students to proactively seek help when they start struggling. Simple but effective communication with practical advice, sent at optimum times, is key.
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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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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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Hecticness of Leave
I’m on leave. The day before I went on leave, everybody wanted everything from me, because I was going on leave, even though I’m only away for three business days. In order to go on leave, I had to deal with a request for a “quick trial,” providing advice on null results, and managing staff remotely.
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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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Public Health Trial
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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Juggling Research
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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