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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dear ASA Members,</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Call for Participants: The Future of Observational Astronomers</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Are you a researcher or postgraduate student working in the broad field of Observational Astronomy?</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">By contributing less than 10 minutes of your time to complete an anonymous online survey, you will help to improve understanding of current practices and future changes
in your profession relating to: (1) the level of in-person involvement in data collection; and (2) the use of automation to assist with research activities.</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Further details and the survey questions are at:
<a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/s-v1CD1vlpToBJyRqCWmxSp?domain=tinyurl.com">https://tinyurl.com/futureastronomersurvey</a></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The survey will close on
<b>Monday 8 May 2023</b>.</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We would be grateful if you can pass on this advertisement to your colleagues, so that we can extend the reach of the survey.</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">This research has received ethics approval by or on behalf of Swinburne University of Technology's Human Research Ethics Committee (SUHREC) in line with the Australian
National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research.</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Questions about this project should be directed to:</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Prof Christopher Fluke</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Phone: +61 3 9214 5828</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">E-mail:
<a href="mailto:cfluke@swin.edu.au">cfluke@swin.edu.au</a></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Thanks</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Christopher Fluke, Hugo Walsh (PhD Student), Sara Webb, and Lisa Wise</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Swinburne University of Technology<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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