Academic

Reflecting on my PhD experience

I submitted my PhD thesis nearly two months ago, and while I still have to wait for examiner feedback to claim that I’ve ‘finished’, I think I’ve sufficiently decompressed post-submission.

The Health of Aboriginal Children in Western Australia in the Context of the Child Protection System

I presented my PhD completion seminar to the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health on the 10th of May, 2024. I’ve included the recording of the seminar here and the content from the slides is beneath.

Going to the ATSIMA 2023 conference

The Statistical Society of Australia (SSA) were advertising funding to support a member to attend this year’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mathematics Alliance (ATSIMA) conference. I’d been wanting to go to an ATSIMA conference for a couple of years so when this funding came up I jumped at the chance - and luckily enough for me I got it!

RMarkdown is great

Stuff that made my life easier Folder structure Workflow Easy citations Automatic numbering for tables and figures Automatic in-text numbers Minor gripes Spell checking Word count Figuring stuff out is hard Acknowledgements References The title says it all really.

What I Didn't Learn at University

I presented this talk at the Early Career and Student Statistician’s Conference in 2021. I found that while I learned a lot at university about statistics and data, I didn’t learn a great deal about what it’s like practising statistics in an applied setting.

PhD Confirmation Presentation

This is the video recording of my PhD confirmation presentation delivered at the Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health on the 31st of May, 2021.

The Health of Aboriginal Children in Western Australia and its Intersection with the Child Protection System

This is the report I prepared for my PhD confirmation on the 31st of May, 2021. Abstract Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children continue to be over-represented in out-of-home care and there is little published information on the health of these children before and after they enter care.