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Loneliness competition winners announced
We are pleased to announce that the winners of the competition are Nina Di Cara from Population Health Sciences and Tiff Massey, Analyst from Ernst and Young with their project ‘Is loneliness associated with movement for education?’. The specific research question assumes that in most cases, movement for primary and secondary education is associated with…
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Computer Experiments
Blog written by Jonathan Rougier, Professor of Statistical Science, University of Bristol In a computer experiments we run our experiment in silico, in situations where it would be expensive or illegal to run them for real. Computer code which is used as an analogue for the underlying system of interest is termed a simulator; often…
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EPIC Lab: Generating a first-person (egocentric) vision dataset for practical chemistry – data analysis and educational opportunities
Blog written by Chris Adams, Teaching Fellow, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol This project was funded by the annual Jean Golding Institute seed corn funding scheme. Our project was a collaboration between the Schools of Computer Science and Chemistry. The computer scientist side stems from the Epic Kitchens project, which used head-mounted GoPro cameras…
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Can machines understand emotion? Curiosity Challenge winners announced
We are pleased to announce the winners of the Curiosity Challenge are Oliver Davis and his team here at the University of Bristol: Zoe Reed, Nina Di Cara, Chris Moreno-Stokoe, Helena Davies, Valerio Maggio, Alastair Tanner and Benjamin Woolf. The team will be collaborating with We The Curious on a prototype, which is due to…
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Visualising group energy
Blog written by Hen Wilkinson, School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. The project was funded by the annual Jean Golding Institute seed corn funding scheme. It emerged from Hen’s ESRC funded PhD research, supported by the SWDTC and School for Policy Studies. Collaborative working is central to tackling the world’s complex problems…
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Reusing qualitative datasets to understand shifts in HIV prevention 1997-2013
A conversation between Dr Catherine Dodds and Dr Ibidun Fakoya The project was funded by the annual Jean Golding Institute seed corn funding scheme. Qualitative data re-use and open archiving This project aimed to demonstrate the considerable value of qualitative data re-use and open archiving. Our team undertook in-depth anonymisation of two existing qualitative HIV…
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Metastable impressions
Blog written by Rob Arbon, Alex Jones, George Holloway and Pete Bennett This project was funded by the annual Jean Golding Institute seed corn funding scheme. The JGI funded project “Metastable impressions” sought to bring together statistical modelling, sound engineering, classical composition and deep learning to create an audio-visual art work about the dynamics of…
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Multitask learning for AMR
Blog written by Rob Arbon, Data Scientist at the University of Bristol. This project was funded by the annual Jean Golding Institute seed corn funding scheme. Multitask learning for AMR “Multitask learning for AMR” developed out of our collaboration with the Jean Golding Institute on the One Health Selection and Transmission of Antimicrobial Resistance (OH-STAR)…
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Interactive visualisation of Antarctic mass trends from 2003 until present
Blog written by Dr Stephen Chuter, Research Associate in Sea Level Research, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol This project was funded by the annual Jean Golding Institute seed corn funding scheme. Antarctica and sea level – a grand socioeconomic challenge Global sea level rise is one of the most pressing societal and economic…
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