2018 | Jul–Dec | • Co-authored Priority Setting in Healthcare Through the Lens of Happiness, a chapter of the 2019 Global Happiness & Wellbeing Policy Report. (Employed through the London School of Economics.) • Successfully applied for a job as Research Analyst for Rethink Priorities (RP). |
2019 | Jan–June | • Worked on various projects with RP, including a database of information on humane fish slaughter and an experimental grant evaluation. • Volunteered with the Happier Lives Institute (HLI), e.g. with first-pass screening of mental health charities. |
Oct–Dec | • Returned to Blackpool to deal with some health issues. Productivity dropped by ~80% during this period for that reason. • Worked on a series of posts (~40,000 words in total) on the development and application of a wellbeing-adjusted life-year. • Attended the 3rd Oxford Workshop on Global Priorities Research run by the Global Priorities Institute. | |
2020 | Jan–Feb | • Continued working on the wellbeing posts and a couple other projects for RP. |
• Assisted the Open Philanthropy Project with their tracking of corporate cage-free and broiler welfare commitments. • Began an evaluation of an app for treating anxiety, in order to advise a high net worth individual on a $1.1m impact investment. | ||
March–June | • Co-authored a paper on human challenge trials that has been accepted by the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases (preproof), and some of the content of the associated 1Day Sooner website. • Co-authored an academic paper based on that post, which the journal Vaccine has asked us to revise and resubmit (preprint). • Wrote (confidential) Covid-related policy reports for government and private sector decision makers. • Contributed questions and made revisions to the SCRUB survey, which “aims to provide current and future policy makers with actionable insights into public attitudes and behaviours relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.” • Wrote a summary of Thomas Pueyo’s post on testing and tracing. • Completed the (confidential) evaluation of an app to treat anxiety. • Continued developing the process for evaluating mental health programmes for the Happier Lives Institute, and began reviewing some of the programmes. | |