Carrie is a Sir Roland Wilson scholar and is on leave from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) to undertake her PhD. Carrie has a Bachelor of Mathematical and Computer Sciences with Honours in Statistics from the University of Adelaide and has worked at the ABS since 2010, having moved to Canberra to take up a graduate position there. Most recently, Carrie was a Director in the Data Integration Services Branch. In this role she led 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 data from PLIDA. This inspired the topic of Carrie’s PhD research, which aims to develop methods to identify cohorts of interest in integrated data assets such as PLIDA. Carrie hopes this work will assist government researchers to make better use of PLIDA for policy formulation and evaluation.