We tend to struggle with how to conceptualise, map, and respond to #complex issues, being dominated by #RationalTechnical frameworks Jade Hart, Vindhya Weeratunga, @hdicko.bsky.social & Deborah Blackman demonstrate why #NDIS has become ‘stuck’ 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

Our final episode of Make Me Data Literate for the year is a fantastic conversation about Inclusive Qualitative Research with the amazing @hdicko.bsky.social . An absolute eye opener for me. Check it out! adsei.org/podcast/hele...

Helen Dickinson on Qualitative Data and Inclusive Research

“one of the other things that sometimes gets said is that qualitative research is subjective because it’s based on people’s thoughts and perceptions And to that I guess I’d …

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📘 Research Handbook on Leadership in Social Work and Social Care Edited by Robin Miller, @catherinemangan.bsky.social, @hdicko.bsky.social & Caroline Jackson. Read first chapter free at ElgarOnline: doi.org/10.4337/9781... More info: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

That thing when you realise it’s a public holiday Monday as you only have one meeting in your diary and wonder what’s happening there.

📣🆕Early View #LeveragePoints are places within #systems where small, strategic interventions can create significant and lasting impact Deborah Blackman, Vindhya Weeratunga, Jade Hart, @hdicko.bsky.social propose a crucial refinement to Meadows’ leverage points👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

Woooo! Congrats England on back to back Euros. What a start to a Monday morning

That England game was some start to the day. Reckon I’m emotionally done and it’s only 7.45am

Excellent work by Rick and absolutely shocking practice.

Rick Morton@squigglyrick.bsky.social · last yr.

Try not to overdo comparisons to robodebt. But this is closest I've seen to a post-robodebt copy of the playbook. NDIS boss demands participant be booted from scheme after conservative radio segment. No evidence. Sham process. Against policy. Gets it WRONG www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...

As the Canadian government pushes AI adoption at virtually any cost, this recent report out of Australia comes to mind, where public servants are wary because they’ve seen first hand the consequences of poorly considered AI rollout.

Robodebt dampening public servants' AI enthusiasm

Public servants are reflecting on past government tech failures when considering the risks and benefits of using AI for policy development.

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New article from me, Jade Hart, Vanessa McDermott and @k8henne.bsky.social about use of generative AI in policy work theconversation.com/senior-publi...

Senior public servants think GenAI will boost productivity - but are worried about the risks

Should GenAI be rapidly rolled out to improve public service policymaking and delivery? Or is a more cautious approach needed to rebuild trust after Robodebt?

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New article out in Health Expectations from our team about the barriers and facilitators in co-designing research with young people onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Collaborating With Young People: Identifying the Barriers and Facilitators in Co‐Designed Research

Background Undertaking collaborative research with young people could result in more relevant research and policy. However, there remains a limited understanding of the barriers and facilitators to .....

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Just out from me and @annekavanagh.bsky.social - The government wants to contain NDIS growth. But ineligible people with disability also need support theconversation.com/the-governme...

The government wants to contain NDIS growth. But ineligible people with disability also need support

As the government seeks to moderate growth of the scheme budget, some NDIS participants are finding they are no longer eligible for the scheme.

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latest NDIS Quarterly report is out, with terrible figures for performance - only 9% of access decisions on time www.ndis.gov.au/about-us/pub...

'Research participants told Sheard that non-native English speakers or those with a disability affecting their speech could find their words not being transcribed correctly, and would then not be rated highly by the recruitment algorithm.' www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

People interviewed by AI for jobs face discrimination risks, Australian study warns

Data used to train artificial intelligence does not ‘reflect the demographic groups we have in Australia’, says researcher

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Applications are now open for the Dr Jennifer Fitzgerald Research Grant. This grant of up to $30,000 is available to support researchers with disability to carry out a project that aims to improve the lives of people with disability. www.scopeaust.org.au/news/applica...

Applications open for research grant to support researchers with…

Supporting research conducted by people with disability for people with disability is an important part of our work at Scope.

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Finally! Been a rough ride as a city supporter over the last month but we got promoted. Go on the mighty bantams

@bcafc.bsky.social · last yr.

New from The Width of a Post: The perfect ending earns Bradford City promotion to League One #bcafc #bantams

So important polling on how the dogs have felt about the election just in.

Belatedly added ‘throw enough mud and it sticks’ to the bingo card and have had to drink 20x in last 5 mins

Are they messing with the tech to make Antony do one more election?

Just your reminder that James McGrath was sacked by Boris Johnson for being racist. www.smh.com.au/world/london...

London mayor sacks Australian over race jibe

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Can’t believe we got to the ‘dog ate my homework’ section of the election coverage so early - James McGrath is really grasping here.

Enjoying my first Aussie federal election where I actually got to vote.

So it’s 1pm and Qantas has just moved my 15.55 flight to 15.30. WTF?

Article from the @australia.theguardian.com including some of my thoughts on Labor's plans to cut more consultants. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Labor defends plan to save $6.4bn by cutting more consultants as experts call it a ‘lazy option’

While the government’s savings are a ‘worthy target’, achieving them ‘may not be a straightforward process’, some say

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New scoping review out from our team exploring the concept of co-design in research with young people. Find it here - health-policy-systems.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Codesign is the zeitgeist of our time, but what do we mean by this? A scoping review of the concept of codesign in collaborative research with young people - Health Research Policy and Systems

Background Codesign is increasingly valued in health research as a way to actively include stakeholders in the research process, particularly for groups that have been historically excluded, such as y...

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Annual re-watch of the Sopranos time and jeepers I know the lines in that series like I know late 90s indie music. And I’m sure it is annoying as shit to everyone watching with me but at least I’m not singing?

Go on the mighty bantams. How cool is this?

This article in the Atlantic tells me that my books and papers were used to train Meta's AI 129 times. Of course this is illegally without my consent. Does this make me an AI developer? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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One day I will write about something that isn't utterly, totally depressing. But it is not this day. University management, where logic and learning go to die. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...

Everything that’s wrong with university management

It’s business as usual in the university sector, where exorbitant executive pay, insecure jobs and exploitation of academic staff continue unabated.

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Great news - this article on unregistered providers in the NDIS published by Social Policy & Admin led by @sophieyates.bsky.social with me and Rae West is in the top 10 most-cited papers in the journal in 2023. @wiley.com #TopCitedArticle onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....?

‘I've probably risk assessed this myself’: Choice, control and participant co‐regulation in a disability individualised funding scheme

Co-production is an intrinsic component of disability individualised funding schemes such as Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). In this paper, we argue that an under-explored fa...

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