Helen Dickinson
@hdicko.bsky.social
Prof. Public service research, UNSW Canberra. Research disability policy and services. Otherwise watching Bradford City and being bossed by pets. She/her
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📘 Research Handbook on Leadership in Social Work and Social Care
Edited by Robin Miller, @catherinemangan.bsky.social, @hdicko.bsky.social & Caroline Jackson.
Read first chapter free at ElgarOnline: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
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@unibirmingham.bsky.social
Edited by Robin Miller, @catherinemangan.bsky.social, @hdicko.bsky.social & Caroline Jackson.
Read first chapter free at ElgarOnline: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
More info: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...
@unibirmingham.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
📘 Research Handbook on Leadership in Social Work and Social Care
Edited by Robin Miller, @catherinemangan.bsky.social, @hdicko.bsky.social & Caroline Jackson.
Read first chapter free at ElgarOnline: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
More info: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...
@unibirmingham.bsky.social
Edited by Robin Miller, @catherinemangan.bsky.social, @hdicko.bsky.social & Caroline Jackson.
Read first chapter free at ElgarOnline: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
More info: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...
@unibirmingham.bsky.social
That thing when you realise it’s a public holiday Monday as you only have one meeting in your diary and wonder what’s happening there.
October 3, 2025 at 4:55 AM
That thing when you realise it’s a public holiday Monday as you only have one meeting in your diary and wonder what’s happening there.
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📣🆕Early View
#LeveragePoints are places within #systems where small, strategic interventions can create significant and lasting impact
Deborah Blackman, Vindhya Weeratunga, Jade Hart, @hdicko.bsky.social propose a crucial refinement to Meadows’ leverage points👇
doi.org/10.1111/1467...
#LeveragePoints are places within #systems where small, strategic interventions can create significant and lasting impact
Deborah Blackman, Vindhya Weeratunga, Jade Hart, @hdicko.bsky.social propose a crucial refinement to Meadows’ leverage points👇
doi.org/10.1111/1467...
September 16, 2025 at 8:43 AM
📣🆕Early View
#LeveragePoints are places within #systems where small, strategic interventions can create significant and lasting impact
Deborah Blackman, Vindhya Weeratunga, Jade Hart, @hdicko.bsky.social propose a crucial refinement to Meadows’ leverage points👇
doi.org/10.1111/1467...
#LeveragePoints are places within #systems where small, strategic interventions can create significant and lasting impact
Deborah Blackman, Vindhya Weeratunga, Jade Hart, @hdicko.bsky.social propose a crucial refinement to Meadows’ leverage points👇
doi.org/10.1111/1467...
Woooo! Congrats England on back to back Euros. What a start to a Monday morning
July 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Woooo! Congrats England on back to back Euros. What a start to a Monday morning
That England game was some start to the day. Reckon I’m emotionally done and it’s only 7.45am
July 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
That England game was some start to the day. Reckon I’m emotionally done and it’s only 7.45am
Excellent work by Rick and absolutely shocking practice.
Try not to overdo comparisons to robodebt. But this is closest I've seen to a post-robodebt copy of the playbook. NDIS boss demands participant be booted from scheme after conservative radio segment. No evidence. Sham process. Against policy. Gets it WRONG www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...
Exclusive: NDIA chief intervened to throw advocate off scheme
Internal emails show the National Disability Insurance Agency rushed to withdraw access for a disabled person whose funding was criticised on talkback radio, only to reinstate it 10 months later.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
July 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Excellent work by Rick and absolutely shocking practice.
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As the Canadian government pushes AI adoption at virtually any cost, this recent report out of Australia comes to mind, where public servants are wary because they’ve seen first hand the consequences of poorly considered AI rollout.
Robodebt dampening public servants' AI enthusiasm
Public servants are reflecting on past government tech failures when considering the risks and benefits of using AI for policy development.
www.themandarin.com.au
June 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
As the Canadian government pushes AI adoption at virtually any cost, this recent report out of Australia comes to mind, where public servants are wary because they’ve seen first hand the consequences of poorly considered AI rollout.
New article from me, Jade Hart, Vanessa McDermott and @k8henne.bsky.social about use of generative AI in policy work theconversation.com/senior-publi...
Senior public servants think GenAI will boost productivity - but are worried about the risks
Should GenAI be rapidly rolled out to improve public service policymaking and delivery? Or is a more cautious approach needed to rebuild trust after Robodebt?
theconversation.com
June 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
New article from me, Jade Hart, Vanessa McDermott and @k8henne.bsky.social about use of generative AI in policy work theconversation.com/senior-publi...
New article out in Health Expectations from our team about the barriers and facilitators in co-designing research with young people onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Collaborating With Young People: Identifying the Barriers and Facilitators in Co‐Designed Research
Background
Undertaking collaborative research with young people could result in more relevant research and policy. However, there remains a limited understanding of the barriers and facilitators to .....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
New article out in Health Expectations from our team about the barriers and facilitators in co-designing research with young people onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Just out from me and @annekavanagh.bsky.social - The government wants to contain NDIS growth. But ineligible people with disability also need support theconversation.com/the-governme...
The government wants to contain NDIS growth. But ineligible people with disability also need support
As the government seeks to moderate growth of the scheme budget, some NDIS participants are finding they are no longer eligible for the scheme.
theconversation.com
May 20, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Just out from me and @annekavanagh.bsky.social - The government wants to contain NDIS growth. But ineligible people with disability also need support theconversation.com/the-governme...
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latest NDIS Quarterly report is out, with terrible figures for performance - only 9% of access decisions on time
www.ndis.gov.au/about-us/pub...
www.ndis.gov.au/about-us/pub...
Quarterly Reports | NDIS
The Quarterly Reports provide the disability ministers with information (including statistics) about participants in each jurisdiction and the funding or provision of supports by the NDIA in each juri...
www.ndis.gov.au
May 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
latest NDIS Quarterly report is out, with terrible figures for performance - only 9% of access decisions on time
www.ndis.gov.au/about-us/pub...
www.ndis.gov.au/about-us/pub...
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'Research participants told Sheard that non-native English speakers or those with a disability affecting their speech could find their words not being transcribed correctly, and would then not be rated highly by the recruitment algorithm.'
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
People interviewed by AI for jobs face discrimination risks, Australian study warns
Data used to train artificial intelligence does not ‘reflect the demographic groups we have in Australia’, says researcher
www.theguardian.com
May 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
'Research participants told Sheard that non-native English speakers or those with a disability affecting their speech could find their words not being transcribed correctly, and would then not be rated highly by the recruitment algorithm.'
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Applications are now open for the Dr Jennifer Fitzgerald Research Grant. This grant of up to $30,000 is available to support researchers with disability to carry out a project that aims to improve the lives of people with disability. www.scopeaust.org.au/news/applica...
Applications open for research grant to support researchers with…
Supporting research conducted by people with disability for people with disability is an important part of our work at Scope.
www.scopeaust.org.au
May 7, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Applications are now open for the Dr Jennifer Fitzgerald Research Grant. This grant of up to $30,000 is available to support researchers with disability to carry out a project that aims to improve the lives of people with disability. www.scopeaust.org.au/news/applica...
Finally! Been a rough ride as a city supporter over the last month but we got promoted. Go on the mighty bantams
New from The Width of a Post: The perfect ending earns Bradford City promotion to League One #bcafc #bantams
City 1 Fleetwood 0 - we are going up!
City 1 Fleetwood 0 - we are going up!
widthofapost.com
May 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Finally! Been a rough ride as a city supporter over the last month but we got promoted. Go on the mighty bantams
So important polling on how the dogs have felt about the election just in.
May 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
So important polling on how the dogs have felt about the election just in.
Belatedly added ‘throw enough mud and it sticks’ to the bingo card and have had to drink 20x in last 5 mins
May 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Belatedly added ‘throw enough mud and it sticks’ to the bingo card and have had to drink 20x in last 5 mins
Are they messing with the tech to make Antony do one more election?
May 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Are they messing with the tech to make Antony do one more election?
Just your reminder that James McGrath was sacked by Boris Johnson for being racist. www.smh.com.au/world/london...
London mayor sacks Australian over race jibe
www.smh.com.au
May 3, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Just your reminder that James McGrath was sacked by Boris Johnson for being racist. www.smh.com.au/world/london...
Can’t believe we got to the ‘dog ate my homework’ section of the election coverage so early - James McGrath is really grasping here.
May 3, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Can’t believe we got to the ‘dog ate my homework’ section of the election coverage so early - James McGrath is really grasping here.
Enjoying my first Aussie federal election where I actually got to vote.
May 3, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Enjoying my first Aussie federal election where I actually got to vote.
So it’s 1pm and Qantas has just moved my 15.55 flight to 15.30. WTF?
May 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
So it’s 1pm and Qantas has just moved my 15.55 flight to 15.30. WTF?
Article from the @australia.theguardian.com including some of my thoughts on Labor's plans to cut more consultants. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Labor defends plan to save $6.4bn by cutting more consultants as experts call it a ‘lazy option’
While the government’s savings are a ‘worthy target’, achieving them ‘may not be a straightforward process’, some say
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Article from the @australia.theguardian.com including some of my thoughts on Labor's plans to cut more consultants. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
New scoping review out from our team exploring the concept of co-design in research with young people. Find it here - health-policy-systems.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Codesign is the zeitgeist of our time, but what do we mean by this? A scoping review of the concept of codesign in collaborative research with young people - Health Research Policy and Systems
Background Codesign is increasingly valued in health research as a way to actively include stakeholders in the research process, particularly for groups that have been historically excluded, such as y...
health-policy-systems.biomedcentral.com
April 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
New scoping review out from our team exploring the concept of co-design in research with young people. Find it here - health-policy-systems.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Annual re-watch of the Sopranos time and jeepers I know the lines in that series like I know late 90s indie music. And I’m sure it is annoying as shit to everyone watching with me but at least I’m not singing?
April 29, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Annual re-watch of the Sopranos time and jeepers I know the lines in that series like I know late 90s indie music. And I’m sure it is annoying as shit to everyone watching with me but at least I’m not singing?
Go on the mighty bantams. How cool is this?
April 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Go on the mighty bantams. How cool is this?