Carrie is a Sir Roland Wilson Scholar from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), with a long career in statistical methodology and the development of linked data infrastructure. Prior to commencing their PhD, they were a Director in the Data Integration Services Branch, leading a team of data engineers to build, maintain and enhance the Person Level Integrated Data Asset (PLIDA). In this role, Carrie oversaw significant expansion and enhancement of PLIDA to increase the frequency and timeliness of data updates and improve the usability of the data for researchers.

Through her work at the ABS, Carrie developed an appreciation of some common challenges experienced by government and academic researchers working with PLIDA. This inspired the topic of her PhD research at the ANU National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, which aims to better understand under- and over-coverage in Australian linked data infrastructure and the impact of this on bias in person-level estimates from whole-of-population descriptive studies. Carrie hopes this research will assist both government and academia to make better use of linked data infrastructure for research, policy formulation, and evaluation.