Helen Dickinson

📘 Research Handbook on Leadership in Social Work and Social Care

Edited by Robin Miller, @catherinemangan.bsky.social, @hdicko.bsky.social & Caroline Jackson.

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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👇

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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

The NDIA spends so much resource monitoring media and to use these insights in this way is just awful. It is a scheme with huge administrative burdens and is not uncommon to share insights about how to navigate it. This is absolutely a product of the system and not rorting.

Excellent work by Rick and absolutely shocking practice.

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.

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.

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?

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

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 .....

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/...

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.

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...

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...

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

'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.'

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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.

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...

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

He’s a very articulate and very sensible fella in my view, which just adds to all of this

And wait til you find out his political positions too!

The Canadian effect is real

I think this is insightful post-election analysis

Rebel went outside and squeaked her toy a lot when Dutton conceded.

Rudie barked a lot at Adam Bandt (but he’s notoriously right wing)

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

I voted early as was going to be away and missed the democracy sausage altogether so making up for it with ‘democracy wine’ this evening 🤣

My first election too! Although I early voted in the masons centre in Cowes (Philip Island) slightly less exciting surrounds

Why do you take things I do seriously? It’s so unreasonable. I should only be held accountable for the things I say I want to be accountable for. Isn’t that how it works?

It was in jest Leena at a Christmas party and someone targeting her private page. She’s clearly the victim of a mud slinging campaign 🙃

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?

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London mayor sacks Australian over race jibe

Weird he didn’t mention this either www.smh.com.au/world/london...