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PhD candidate at @Syd_health exploring #citizenscience in chronic disease prevention research & policy 🎓👩🏻‍💻 Dog mum 🐾 Baker 🧁 Views my own. (She/her) 🌈

Gadigal and Wangal lands
Joined April 2018
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My 2nd PhD paper is out (phew!) - This one explores policymakers and practioners perceptions of and experiences with #CitizenScience in public health and demonstrates support and appetite to use CS to inform policy and programs for health and wellbeing: rdcu.be/da8JF – at Sydney, New South Wales
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#IvotedYES #Yes23 – at Sydney, New South Wales
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If you watch this and do not have a tear in your eye at the end, you have no soul. For the sake of ALL Australians, past, present and future On 14 October Vote YES Thank you You're the Voice Referendum Ad John Farnham - Full version youtu.be/br8dB_0z3Fk?si=D2_l… via @YouTube
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OUR NEW AD IS LIVE!   You’re the Voice that will make history.   On 14 October, we know we all can stand together with the power to be powerful.   #HistoryIsCalling, so #VoteYes. Are you in? John Farnham is.   #UluruStatement #StayTrue2Uluru #YoureTheVoice #VoteYes
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Key findings ⬇️ – at Sydney, New South Wales
My 2nd PhD paper is out (phew!) - This one explores policymakers and practioners perceptions of and experiences with #CitizenScience in public health and demonstrates support and appetite to use CS to inform policy and programs for health and wellbeing: rdcu.be/da8JF
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All welcome at our next #CitizenScience in prevention CoP webinar on 1st March (12-1pm): ‘Scaling the voice of older adults - reflections on co-creating healthy ageing smart communities’, presented by A/Prof Ann Borda and Prof Sonja Pedell. Register here: uni-sydney.zoom.us/meeting/r… – at Sydney, New South Wales
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Remember, big tobacco continues to make billions of dollars selling a product that kills. As more people give up smoking, they need a new, younger market - there is a reason vapes come in candy flavours with cutesy packaging.
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Great day chatting all things HDR in health and thanks Dr Tracy King for the reminder to make space for ALL the things that go into successfully completing a PhD including having a dog 🐶 @sydFMH_EMCR #PhDvoice #AcademicChatter – at Sydney, New South Wales
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NEW PUBLICATION ↓ The Citizen Science in Prevention Project aims to build capacity in #CitizenScience by supporting policy and practice agencies in the application of these approaches. Find out more about our program of work in our protocol: doi.org/10.5334/cstp.488
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Leah Marks retweeted
Join me on Thursday 7 July, 14:00 – 15:30 CET⁣⁣, for a hands on workshop learning how to present your #CitizenScience project. ⁣⁣ Register here - cstrack.eu/topic/participati… #CitSci #SciComm
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An innovative use of #CitizenScience to understand young peoples exposure to unhealthy industry advertising. Find out more 👇🏼 Great to see this important work published 👏🏼
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1/11 Most of my research is about the problem (corporate power, capitalism etc.). That's the easy stuff. Solutions are vastly harder. So I am pretty DAMN chuffed to have this out. A #publichealth playbook - 8 ways to counter the 'Corporate Playbook' #CDoH thelancet.com/journals/langl…
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Our new review was recently published exploring how #CitizenScience is used in #ChronicDiseasePrevention, check it out here: frontiersin.org/articles/10.… @CPC_EMCR @Usyd_SEMCAN #CSinPrevention – at Sydney, New South Wales
New Research: A Scoping Review of Citizen Science Approaches in Chronic Disease Prevention: Background Citizen science approaches, which involve members of the public as active collaborators in scientific research, are… frontiersin.org/articles/10.… #PublicHealth #HealthForAll
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Leah Marks retweeted
And great for #healthequity Our new Prime Minister @AlboMP was raised by his mum in public housing He gets poverty and scraping by and knows the importance of opportunities to advance Its a great relief to have him in charge!
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Democracy day I’ll be voting @tanya_plibersek and obviously for Animal Justice #AusVotes2022 #firetheliar #AlboForPM #corgi – at Sydney, New South Wales
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For climate. For our pandemic heroes. For our Women. For our kids. For our Indigenous brothers and sisters. For the vulnerable. For integrity. For compassion. It’s time. #FireTheLiarFromTheShire #AusVotes22
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I was lucky enough to attend the #Prevention2022 conference last week and share some findings from my #PhD research on opportunities for #CitizenScience in #PreventiveHealth policy and practice - you can check out my presentation on the @TAPPCentre playlist here (no.10): – at Sydney, New South Wales
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#Paper: The split ladder of #participation: A diagnostic, strategic, and evaluation tool to assess when participation is necessary sciencedirect.com/science/ar… via @sciencedirect #CitizenScience @BDMarchi @CitSciAssoc @EuCitSci @CitSciMonth @_CitizenScience @MICSproject @CitSci
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