Director of Evaluation @policyatkings. Making my way off Twitter atm; find me on BlueSky.
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After 10.5 years, three visas and a lot of £££, I have finally got around to getting my British citizenship. Please enjoy this heavily cropped photo to avoid showing (a) the King, (b) my personal data, and (c) my kid. Blessed to now be "an Australian with a British passport".
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These measures were stunningly effective. Over 2007, Brisbaners voluntarily reduced water consumption to less than 129L/p/d. Before the drought ended in 2008, dam levels had stabilised at around 16 per cent of capacity, well above the crisis level predicted.
ALT Source: Queensland Government. https://cabinet.qld.gov.au/documents/2010/jul/seq%20water%20strategy/Attachments/seqws-full%5B1%5D.pdf Target 140 came in as part of Level 5 water restrictions.
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Lastly, although there were lots of ways to save water, Target 140 identified one simple thing: long showers were accounting for 33% of residential water use, so they distributed a million 4-min timers, and got radio stations to play 4-min "shower songs" throughout the morning.
ALT Source: target140.com.au via the Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20070830130708/http://www.target140.com.au/Do+you+pass+the+Target+140+tests
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They did good user research - they identified a misconception that residential water use didn't matter (actually it was 70% of water usage), and pointed their messaging at addressing that. piped.video/watch?v=EOlLG7cU…
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In 2007, Brisbane had rainfall <10% of average, and projected dam levels would fall to below 6% if current trends continued. But by 2007 a bucketload (a drought-time standard unit of measure) of structural and regulatory measures had already been implemented.
ALT Source: SEQWater. https://www.seqwater.com.au/sites/default/files/2019-08/2017%20Water%20Security%20Program%20Annual%20Report.pdf . 2011 was a flood LOL #weather.
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Let me tell you about Brisbane, Australia, in 2007. It’s fair to say, the 2000s in Australia were not a good time to be a plant. El Niño arrived sometime in the late 1990s and hung around until 2010, when La Niña arrived and flooded half the country.
ALT Source: BOM - http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/updates/articles/a008-el-nino-and-australia.shtml
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"As Oxbridge leans towards state schools, thousands of pupils from independent schools are crossing the Atlantic." thetimes.co.uk/article/we-ch…
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I feel like the clocks going back is particularly cruel for the pets of the UK, who now face their dinner time jumping back by an hour with no explanation.
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Two big names in education announced as DfE ministers tonight. Long standing former schools minister @NickGibbUK and Commons education committee chairman @halfon4harlowMP appointed ministers at @educationgovuk tes.com/magazine/news/genera…
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Q: "What's the most romantic thing you and your partner have ever done?"
A: "Try to pull together proof of our social/commitment to each other to convince the Australian Government to let him into the country."
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This was five days before bids to set up @taso_he were due to the OfS, so I wrote a good chunk of that bid with a full-hand cast on my right hand while waiting to see the hand trauma specialist.
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Happy January 5th everyone. As a new year's gift, please enjoy these pictures of My Cat, Destroyer of Worlds.
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A little emotional to be back on a King's campus for the first time in 15 months to get my COVID jab. But I always trust King's people to look after me. 💙
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This looks like a #nudge to me because (a) there is a lot of BI crammed in there (top of the queue, priority, free) and (b) the wording ended up a bit awkward which does happen when you try to cram a lot of BI into a single message.
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Package arrives, delivery driver says "I love the spelling of your name". Me: "oh, thanks!". Package for: Suzzannah Hume.
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#tfw you get a large treatment effect on a survey exp and then check the data and realise... you haven't excluded all your practice runs through the questionnaire.
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@AskAmexUK receiving this "Christmas card" trying to get me to pressure friends and family into opening a line of credit with you made me seriously consider cancelling my card. Wtf, dudes!
I'm trapped in a house with two people who don't like champagne. Should I drink the whole bottle myself, yes or yes?
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Who's going to tell my cat that the trip to Disneyland Paris I promised him is cancelled because he can't get a Pet Passport after Brexit. :(
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Yeah but Tim Tams are pretty good tho. piped.video/watch?v=I5bY2UVY…
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Age 20, on exchange in Vancouver. This little Suz would never have expected where I'd be now - I was pretty convinced I'd have a career in corporate HR and would have said Canberra & London were two cities I'd never move to. OTOH I definitely still make this face frequently. 😂
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"like the Eminem song Stan"
A real life @ftdata conversation:
"What does stan mean? I keep hearing it. Is it a Gen Z thing?"
"It’s like stalker/fan, obsessive fan etc. Like the Eminem song Stan."
"Ohhh okay. And apparently it’s also a verb? Who do we stan?"
"Hans Rosling?"
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Reminds me of this beautiful hot mess if a case study from a now-defunct Australian Government counter-extremism publication. *chef's kiss*
#XR considered a terrorist threat by the police because it has an “Anti-establishment philosophy that seeks system change.”
Just underscores why the establishment needs to be overthrown and the system changed..! bit.ly/2uuqsL1
So I was incredibly lucky to spend Christmas and New Year in Chile. Beautiful places and wonderful people, especially the artists and protestors we walked around Santiago with, whose social demands felt very relevant to me as both an Australian and a UK resident.
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I saw #cats and I have a lot of thoughts but the main one is that the ear placement/size is not anatomically correct (see exhibits 1: Valkyrie, an actual cat with a weirdly human face). In this essay I will
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Upsetting news - turns out my Scottish grandparent was born in England. Scottish passport plan is cancelled.
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All right, I'll accept being slightly cheered up by the WW84 trailer. But onnly slightly because everything else is still terrible. piped.video/sfM7_JLk-84
At every level of the attainment spectrum, women are attending courses that are equally selective but lower-earning than man. cc @GIWLkings
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Why does it matter if students are in less selective courses than they could be? @gillwyness_econ introducing the Mismatch in Higher Education report with @NuffieldFound.
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As we get ready for the second phase of our SHIFT teacher thanks project, a throwback to my favourite postcard from last year, addressed to... "The Professor Wearing Shorts to Graduation" 🤭
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Slightly unreal to be here listening to two amazing leaders @GIWLkings @KingsCollegeLon #WorldQuestions
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Like the Australian millennial I am u wandered out of #wonkfest to find a proper coffee... And found this little friend at @CoffeeWorksProj
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So I'm a fan of the gender neutral toilets for a lot of reasons! But it would be inaccurate to say that this is actually meaningfully doubling the # of stalls woman used. I and many others (see below) chose to queue rather than use the bathroom with urinals.
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Always loved the Purpose for Learning intervention that @ASBGroot and I did with the British Army (based on Self-Transcendent Goals ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…). Great to see it lives on at @b_i_tweets and applied to career information seeking! #wonkfest
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Lovely to join a packed house at #wonkfest to see my old colleague Anna Bird @B_I_Tweets and @AndyYouell consider how data drives policy (and whether it should...)
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At tonight's performance the role of "Unfinished Tasks (Waking me up in the middle of the night)" will be played by... my cat
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I increasingly want to find this woman and find out what she is doing now and whether she knows she has the most widely-viewed haircut in HE policy.
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"It seems that women's preferred Prime Minister is 'Not Sure'." @ProfRosieCamp is on point! @GIWLkings
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This may be the only appearance Boris Johnson ever makes on my timeline, but it isn't often actual politics gets so deep into @Aiannucci territory and I love it, especially reports that the staffer has been spotted since, buying a keep cup.
As captured by a Channel 4 News cameraman, Boris Johnson was handed a coffee cup by one of his handlers, only for another to immediately take it away, saying "No. Disposable. Cups".
The government says it will ensure all disposable coffee cups in the UK are recyclable by 2023.
In memory of Thomas Cook I offer an excerpt from Jack London's People of the Abyss, where he tries to get Thomas Cook to offer him a tour of East London...! gutenberg.org/files/1688/168…
178-year-old British travel company Thomas Cook shuts down, with some 600,000 of its customers vacationing around the world #WSJWhatsNow
A role I'm particularly excited about recruiting: come help us grow @taso_he into a vibrant, independent charity over the next couple of years! my.corehr.com/pls/kingrecrui…
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Thomas Jefferson hitting a bit close to home here (although I suppose I'd say 52/48 these days...)
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MPs vote by 329 to 300 to back a bill aimed at blocking a no-deal #Brexit
Live updates: bbc.in/32uvCTc
My Scottish grandfather joined the merchant navy at 13 in 1937, had two ships sunk from under him in WWII, and ended up in Australia, where he transferred to the RAN at age 19 (!) in 1943. A complicated, interesting man that I was lucky to get to know better just before he died.
We are proudly flying the flag for #MerchantNavyDay remembering the brave men and women who risked their lives during both World Wars and to celebrate those working at sea today. bit.ly/Merchant_NavyDay
Johnson has nothing to lose if he genuinely wants a No Deal Brexit: either he suspends parliament and we leave while it’s not sitting; or he loses a vote of no confidence, and fights an election while we leave without a deal. I bet he prefers the latter bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-4…
