HUDSON PEOPLE - Dr Miranda Davies-Tuck

NAME
Dr. Miranda Davies-Tuck

POSITION / GROUP / CENTRE
Research Fellow/ Epidemiology and Clinical Trials Group/The Ritchie Centre.

I WAS BORN IN
Melbourne

BEFORE HUDSON I WAS DOING
Research on knees

THE BEST PART OF MY JOB IS
The diverse number of projects I get to be involved in and people I get to work with.

I CHOSE THIS CAREER PATH BECAUSE 

I want to improve the care we give mums and their babies.

IF I WASN’T DOING THIS JOB I WOULD BE 

A lady of leisure, ha! I have no idea actually. When I was little I wanted to be a palaeontologist or meteorologist. In high school I wanted to be a psychologist. Right now, if I was to do my time again I think being a GP or a school teacher would be a nice job. I have also been known, in the periods following fellowship/grant rejections to google “jobs an epidemiologist can do” so realistically it would probably be one of them.

MY FIRST JOB WAS 

In a bakery, the highlight of this job was when I got to go in early with the bakers and ice the scrolls and buns.

MY FAVOURITE MOVIE/TV IS

Katy Perry: Part of Me and I am not ashamed to admit it. Do yourself a favour and watch it, trust me.

I AM WORKING ON 

My garden. Big block, huge hill and clay soils is making it a challenge….

THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY YEAR SO FAR. 

My work with the Victorian Department of Health. Its been really fascinating be involved in research driven by coronial or ministerial recommendations that is then used to inform policy in Victoria.  

I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO 

Summer (finally some heat please!!!)

MY FAVOURITE PLACE IN THE WORLD

My home, the gorgeous Mornington Peninsula. I don’t understand how anyone could live anywhere else.

OUTSIDE OF WORK I ENJOY 

Spending time with my boys. I’ve also recently discovered mountain biking which is really fun.

MY FAVOURITE PLACE TO EAT 

Commonfolk, in Mornington. Awesome food and fantastic coffee.

THE BEST ADVICE I'VE RECEIVED

“You can have it all, just not all at once” (thanks to my PhD supervisor)

“Things are neither good nor bad, they just are, it is how you perceive them” (Buddhism for Mothers)

“Just say yes and worry about the rest later”  (thanks Euan)