Signing off now from my twitter takeover. Tweeting about my role as a research manager Joseph Rowntree Foundation has been fun, and made me realise how varied each day is. Off to enjoy some yorkshire sunshine while it lasts ☀️😎

This week in the SRA North committee twitter takeover I’ll (Georgina) be telling you about my work as a research manager for social research agency Qa Research. Slightly late to my takeover as I’m having quite a varied week, so come along for the fun. Also find me Georgina Culliford

I’ve been at Qa Research for nearly 4 yrs (!!), I’m now a Research Manager and have worked on some fascinating projects. The best thing about working in an agency is the varied topics – charity support, health, poverty, transport, utilities

Working in a research agency may make me a ‘jack of all trades, master of none’, but I love collecting nuggets of info from different projects that help build a holistic picture of life and inform another (seemingly unrelated) project

I’ve been on the North committee of Shivan A for over 2 years now, it's so fun working with researchers in charities, academia, other agencies. I’ve helped organise some great events, my fave is this one on health inequalities that we hosted in Dec 2020 bit.ly/38aB8lP

Health is one of my research passions, so I always jump at the chance when the right brief comes along. One of my favourites was last year, conducting qual interviews with older people for the Centre for Ageing Better all about keeping physically active bit.ly/3tUUPXf

Working in an agency is so varied - a snapshot of my week: - checked a survey that's going into field soon - talked to gatekeeper organisations who will help us access hard to reach participants - conducted qual interviews on archiving - written a report on inbound tourism

Take health for example – a huge topic, granted – but a project I worked on a few years ago all about managing long-term health conditions ended up revealing so much about how our circumstances impact our options

We saw intersections between health and poverty & inequality (heaps of evidence how this affects health outcomes), transport (accessing appointments), language and culture (creating clear communications), behavioural science (motivation)

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