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. • Left to attend EAG San Francisco, then experimented with living in the Bay then Bali.
	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. • Gave minor assistance to various other projects for RP and HLI. • 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. • Developed the framework for the next round of mental health charity evaluations for HLI.
		• 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 a post on LessWrong and the EA Forum on the use of option-based guarantees for accelerating vaccines and other public goods. • Co-authored an academic paper based on that post, which the journal Vaccine has asked us to revise and resubmit (preprint). • Co-authored a paper on the health and economic impacts of various approaches to testing, tracing, and isolation; the Lancet asked us to revise and resubmit and we are awaiting a response to the resubmission (preprint of the first draft). • 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.