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31 December 2024

I've been continuing my "reading in my lunch time" aim from last year. It's been helpful to get my mind off of my PhD for a small amount of time, and is particularly great when I could not put a book down - see below. My favour...

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16 December 2024

Welcome to another year of incredible music! I am still trying to catch up on all the releases from 2024. As Amanda Petrusich said: It’s also possible that I listened to more music in 2024 than in any other year of my life; I lost all int...

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22 May 2024

As you might know, I am in the last year of my PhD, which I have worked on since February 2021. I'm up to my last study, which examines Australian views on future mobility, including autonomous and electric vehicles. If you are 18 years old or over...

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19 April 2024

I gave a presentation about my PhD and the findings from my focus groups this week at the Australian Electric Vehicle Association (AEVA) Queensland branch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQgqVQqcPkw Watch the Video on YouTube You can see the fu...

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18 December 2023

Welcome to another year of incredible music! Here are my favourite albums and music of the year in lettering form: I always get my music from Bandcamp, AudioTree, YouTube Music, and FluxBlog. I also love NRP's TIny Desk sessions and KEXP sessions....

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15 December 2023

Here are my suggestions for your Summer (Winter) reading from the books I've read over the past few months, as pictured here: "The House That Joy Built: The Pleasure & Power of Giving Ourselves Permission to Create" by Australian author Holly ...

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29 November 2023

I presented my Thesis Candidature Review Milestone (TCRM) on Friday, titled Exploring Sociotechnical Factors Impacting the Autonomous Vehicle Rollout in Australia. Here's the blurb: As part of my PhD, we must present where we are and what will com...

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10 October 2023

I was part of a series of Focus Group Workshops organised by Researcher Education and Development (RED) at Griffith University that were delivered last week. Professor Barbara Pini and Doctor Judy Rose delivered the first workshop, An Overview of ...

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26 July 2023

Today, the second publication for my honours (2020) - looking at how preschoolers engage with a social robot (NAO) vs a human instructor - was published in a quartile-one journal! "Preschool children's engagement with a social robot compared to a ...

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23 June 2023

I gave an award-winning (!) presentation at the Thematic Analysis in Mixed Methods Mini-Symposium today online for Griffith University. The full title is A Visual Guide on Using the Braun and Clarke 6-Phase Process for Thematic Analysis to Identify ...