Behaviour change researcher at BehaviourWorks Australia in Monash University and part of the team at the Rapid Effective Action Development Initiative (https://www.readiresearch.org/).
Failed as an entrepreneur but learned while doing. Might try it again but only if I fix my various health issues and improve my focus. It was rough!
Former EA movement builder for i) UNSW, Sydney, Australia, ii) Sydney, Australia and iii) Ireland, groups, and still a little involved in all to ensure that they continue.
Did the marketing for the EAGx Australia 2019 conference.
Currently considering a 'pitstop' and a subsequent pivot into doing more coaching, EA organisation/ conference/ community marketing and growth work rather than focusing on academia.
You can get more of the details of what I do and have done on my Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterslattery1/)
Please feel comfortable reaching out if you would like to connect or think I can help you with something. I don't take myself too seriously and like to help people. I am very busy though and often a bit overwhelmed so there might be a delay in response!
Things that I might be useful for:
Building a social media profile on Linkedin
Helping you get social science research experience
Collaboration on research projects that aim to produce academic outputs (this is probably where I/READI have a comparative advantage)
Mental health struggles/trying to keep feeling good to do good
Setting up/running EA groups
Changing behaviour/marketing/growth ideas
Working with government/policymakers
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Thanks, that's exciting to hear!
For funded work, I wanted to know how much funding you expect to receive to do work for stakeholders.
Are there any ways that the EA community can help RP that we might not be aware of? Or any that we do already that you would like more of?
Assume you had uncapped funding to hire staff at RP from now on. In such a scenario, how many more staff would you expect RP to have in 5 years from now? How much more funding would you expect to attract? Would you sustain your level of impact per dollar?
For instance, is it the case that you think that RP could be 2x as large in five years and do 3x as much funded work at a 1.5x current impact per dollar? Or a very different trajectory?
I ask as an attempt to gauge your perception of the potential growth of RP and this sector of EA more generally.
Are there any skills and/or content expertise that you expect to particularly want from future hires? Put differently, is there anything that you think aspiring hires might want to start working on to be better suited to join/support RP over the next few years?
What percentage of your work/funding comes from non-EA aligned sources?
(on phone)
Thanks for this, really excited to see you expand! I particularly really like the new award. I think that recognition can be particularly useful for students seeking jobs or PhD positions, so it could help good students get better positions.
I'd personally like to see all good work get recognition, so I'd probably favour a plan to award everything that meets a sufficiently high standard, as opposed to just rewarding the best work.
With that said, you might well have a good reason to act differently.
Thanks for writing this up. Really impressive!
Thanks for this David. I find all of these posts to be very helpful.
(On phone, so will be very concise)
- I think so. However, it remains to be seen if it is a significant or useful enough constraint to justify attention over others.
- Maybe. Hard to know if it is that or a coordination constraint though. I think that the more significant issue is that many of our good ideas never encounter a critical mass of supporting resources to bring them to fruition. There are definitely many coincidence of wants related problems, where someone has a good idea that someone would do or fund but that person never hears of it.
- A better pipeline for idea generation and implementation. Incentives to share, curate prioritise and implement ideas. I think that more open innovation competitions and idea incubators could be helpful.
Thanks for all the hard work Aaron, you did a great job! I am also excited to see hear about your new position and look forward to seeing the work you produce :)