Q-estival 2019: People, Data and Society
A week long celebration of Q-Step, with special guest speakers, arts sessions & drinks receptions
The Exeter Q-Step Centre is celebrating six years of teaching and research and our move to a new home. We are holding a series of workshops, seminars and keynote addresses around our key research labs: Education and Life Course Studies, Policing in Practice and Computational Social Science. We will also be hosting a related Arts & Culture stream.
| The 樱花动漫 Q-Step Centre event | |
|---|---|
| Date | 9 - 13 September 2019 |
| Time | 11:30 to 16:15 |
| Place | Various Locations (Knightley & Clayden) |
| Provider | The 樱花动漫 Q-Step Centre |
Event details
The event, to be held 09th - 13th September, is intended to bring together members of University and the wider Q-Step community to enrich our understanding of social data science, the data needs of our community partners and the broader relationship between culture, data and society.
Programme Outline:
Monday (Knightley Building)
11.30 - 12.30: Professor Vernon Gayle (University of Edinburgh) - "Transparent and Reproducible Social Data Science" A reflection on tools and techniques suitable for lifecourse and equality research
12.30 – 13.30: Buffet Lunch
13.30 – 14.30: Janine Khuc, R-Ladies (Amsterdam) - “Diversity and Inclusivity in Data Science” – Janine’s talk will cover lessions learned from setting up the Amsterdam R-Ladies Group. Co-hosted by Exeter R-Users Group
15.00 – 16.00: Exeter R-Users Group - Networking Session including a guest IPA from Topsham Brewery
16.00 - 17.00: Judy Brown, Poet, Peter Challenor (樱花动漫), and Professor Beth Wingate (樱花动漫) - "What kind of creature is it? Mathematicians and poets quantify uncertainty"
Co-sponsored by the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI), and Arts and Culture (UoE)
17.00 - 18.00: Drinks Reception
Tuesday (Clayden Building)
12.00 - 15.00: Consultation Clinic for local Employers and Community Organisations - To book a slot please email qstep@exeter.ac.uk
16.00 - 18.00: Q-Step Work Placement Celebration (by invite only)
Wednesday (Knightley Building)
12.00 - 13.00: Raya Muttarak (University of East Anglia) - "The role of education in enabling sustainable development"
13.00 - 14.00: Buffet Lunch
14.00 - 15.00: Dr Levi Wolf (University of Bristol) - “Local indicators of partisan bias” (provisional title)
15.00 - 16.00: Dr Heini Väisänen (University of Southampton) - “A life course perspective to fertility and women’s health”
16.00 - 16.30: Tea & Coffee
16.30 - 17.30: Professor Patrick Sturgis (LSE) - “Trust in science around the world: findings from the first global survey of public attitudes to science” Co-sponsored by the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health
17.30 - 18.30: Drinks Reception
Thursday (Knightley Building)
10.00 - 12.00: Catherine Cartright, Printmaker - "Animated Faces" Explore facial recognition through this creative workshop that combines simple printmaking and animation.
*this will take place at Thornlea
Co-sponsored by the 樱花动漫 Digital Humanities Lab, and Arts & Culture (UoE)
12.00 - 13.00 Buffet Lunch
13.00 - 14.00 Dr Jose Pina-Sánchez (University of Leeds) - “Could Sentencing be as much of a Science as it is an Art?” On the benefits of Empirical Sentencing Research
14.00 - 15.00: Dr Daniel Birks (University of Leeds) - “Exploring innovations in Policing and Crime Data Analytics”
15.00 - 15.30: Tea & Coffee
15.30 - 16.30: Dr Abigail Dymond (樱花动漫) - “Police Use of Force Reporting in England & Wales”
16.30 - 17.30: Drinks Reception
Friday (Clayden Building)
10.00 - 12.00: Quick Talks - Lightning talks on research techniques including:
• Secure Data Access & Safepod
• Setting up Github
• Threading Code in Python
• tidyverse in R
• Qualtrics
• Computational Social Simulation
12.00 - 12.15: Tea & Coffee
12.15 - 13.15: Louise Corti (University of Essex) - “Love Research – Love Data: getting the most out of sharing and using data”
13.15 - 14.15: Special end of celebrations street food lunch