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COVID-19: Pandemics and ‘Infodemics’
JGI Seed Corn funded project Blog Post by Drs Luisa Zuccolo and Cheryl McQuire, Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol. The problem Soon after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11th 2020, the UN declared the start of an infodemic, highlighting the danger posed by the fast spreading of unchecked misinformation. Defined as an overabundance of information, including deliberate…
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University of Bristol hosts UK climate data hackathon in advance of COP26 – the CMIP6 Data Hackathon
Researchers from across the UK are coming together for a climate data hackathon this June. The hackathon is a three-day virtual event organised by the University of Bristol’s Cabot Institute and Jean Golding Institute, in association with the Met Office and universities of Exeter, Leeds and UCL. The aim of the hackathon is to produce cutting-edge research using data from the Climate Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), with the aim of showcasing outputs at the upcoming COP26…
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Social Justice and AI Workshop Placement, a blog post by Ralph Ward
My name is Ralph Ward and I am currently studying for a Masters in Anthropology at the University of Bristol. I have just completed a 4-month placement supporting the development and operation of a Social Justice and AI Workshop for the GW4 Data Science Network . I am just about to start research for my…
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BrisSciFilm 2021 – Jean Golding Institute data science and AI film prize
We are very excited to announce that we are collaborating with Bristol Science Film Festival, every year they run a science film competition to encourage and support all filmmakers. It is open to amateur and experienced film makers; the shortlisted films are screened on the Big Screen in Bristol and at a special film-makers screening during…
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Seed Corn Funding 2021 announcement
The Jean Golding Institute is delighted to announce the winners of the Seed Corn Funding call 2021. We are very grateful to our community as we received so many high-level applications during these challenging times and were able to select 12 fantastic projects. This funding call aims to support activities to foster interdisciplinary research in…
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Imagining Secure Digital Futures – DiScriBe Hub+
Dr Genevieve Liveley and Professor Awais Rashid are part of the team of the newly launched ESRC Digital Security by Design Social Science Hub+, DiScriBe, a four year project to bring social science, humanities and computer science together to address the challenges of digital security. DiScriBe Hub+ is one of two programmes of research and development announced by UK Research and Innovation, as part of the Industrial…
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Brunel’s Network project – next stage
A blog written by James Boyd, Brunel Institute and Christopher Woods, University of Bristol. Following many months of lockdown-based work, the Brunel’s Network project, conducted by the SS Great Britain Trust and University of Bristol collaboration, The Brunel Institute, is now available online. The project aims to find, record, assess and weight the influence of…
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Dr Anya Skatova, Bristol Turing Fellow, received the prestigious UKRI Future Leader Fellowship
Dr Skatova’s programme will focus on developing methods to analyse shopping data to improve population health. Digital technology opens up a new era in the understanding of human behaviour and lifestyle choices, with people’s daily activities and habits leaving ‘footprints’ in their digital records. For example, when we buy goods in supermarkets and use loyalty…
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What is data? Exploring data from an anthropological perspective
Blog written by Josie Price, University of Bristol graduate Introduction Humans are repeatedly living through and creating data, yet the uses of data have also become a source of economic, political, psychological and social power. So, what really is data? My final year thesis for my Anthropology with Innovation degree aimed to investigate this question…
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