Projects

Safe and Responsible AI submission

Working with Good Ancestors Policy, I supported three streams of work to respond to a consultation by the Australian government about safe and responsible AI. This work included (1) contributing to a detailed submission from Good Ancestors Policy to the consultation, (2) organising and delivering community workshops to help interested people write their own submissions, and (3) coordinating a co-signed statement and open letter from Australian AI experts.

Ready Research

Ready Research is a collaboration I co-founded in 2019, aligned with the principles of effective altruism. It provides research, training, and communication services to help address the world’s most pressing problems.

SCRUB COVID-19 survey

The SCRUB COVID-19 survey aimed to provide current and future policy makers with actionable insights into public attitudes and behaviours relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. I led this project, which was incubated at Ready Research, funded initially by Monash University, and then funded and conducted collaboratively with the Victorian Government. Over 2020-2021 we conducted 21 waves of the survey, about 1 every 3 weeks, and collected rich behavioural and attitudinal data from more than 40,000 people.

Climate Adaptation Mission

The BehaviourWorks Australia Climate Adaptation Mission explores how systems thinking, knowledge co-production, and behavioural public policy experiments could help Australian communities reduce harms from climate change. I co-led this project with collaborators Stefan Kaufman and Kien Nguyen.

Scale up toolkit

When we know that a behaviour change intervention has worked in a pilot or trial, how can we scale it up to achieve greater impact and reach?

I led this work at BehaviourWorks in collaboration with the Victorian government Behavioural Insights Unit to develop an evidence-informed toolkit to help behavioural insights researchers and practitioners improve the scale up of their behaviour change interventions.