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.
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.
Today was going to be a productive day, I was going to get lots of work done, but then I had the thought “wouldn’t it be cool if I could make my own RStudio theme?
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!
I originally did this talk for Ballarat Health Services (now Grampians Health) back in 2021. I’d intended to upload the recording but unfortunately it didn’t materialise! Instead I’ve put the material from the talk here.
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.
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.
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.