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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Imagining Secure Digital Futures – DiScriBe Hub+

    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…

  • 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…

  • Dr Anya Skatova, Bristol Turing Fellow, received the prestigious UKRI Future Leader Fellowship

    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…

  • What is data? Exploring data from an anthropological perspective

    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…

  • Food hazards from around the world Data Competition

    Food hazards from around the world Data Competition

    We are excited to announce the winner of the 2020 Food hazards from around the world data competition is Robert Eyre with his visualisation project ‘FSA related alert tracker’.  The Jean Golding Institute recently teamed up with the Food Standards Agency (FSA) for a data visualisation competition  The competition Every day the Food Standards Agency…

  • Storing your data in a spreadsheet

    Storing your data in a spreadsheet

      Blog written by Jonty Rougier, Lisa Müller, Soraya Safazadeh, Centre for Thriving Places (the new name for Happy City) What makes a good spreadsheet layout? We were recently trying to extract some data from the All tab of the ONS spreadsheet Work Geography Table 7.12 Gender pay gap 2018 This gave us the opportunity…