Q-estival 2019: People, Data and Society

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 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.

Monday

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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 lessons 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 Professor Peter Challenor (University of Exeter) Professor Beth Wingate (University of Exeter)	"What kind of creature is it? Mathematicians and poets quantify uncertainty" Co-sponsored by the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI) Co-sponsored by Arts and Culture, UoE
17:00 - 18:00	Drinks Reception

All Monday sessions will take place in the Knightley Boardroom/Meeting Room in the Knightley Building on our Streatham Campus (55 on the Campus Map)

Tuesday

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12:00 - 15:00	Consultation Clinic for local Employers and Community Organisations
16:00 - 18:00	Q-Step Work Placement Celebration (by invite only)

All Tuesday sessions will take place in the Clayden Computational Lab/Meeting Room in the Clayden Building on our Streatham Campus (54 on the campus map).

Wednesday

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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)	updated title "Finding the fault lines: finding urban social boundaries using social data science"
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 Chaired by Professor Sabine Leonelli, Co-Director of the Exeter Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences (Egenis), where she leads the Data Studies research strand
17:30 - 18:30	Drinks Reception

All Wednesday sessions will take place in the Knightley Boardroom/Meeting Room in the Knightley Building on our Streatham Campus (55 on the campus map)

Thursday

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10:00 - 12:00	Catherine Cartwright, Printmaker	"Animated Faces" Explore facial recognition techniques through this creative workshop that combines simple printmaking and animation. Venue will be Thornlea (48 on the campus map) Co-sponsored by the University of Exeter Digital* Humanities Lab Co-sponsored by 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 Innovation in Policing and Crime Data Analytics"
15:00 - 15:30	Tea & Coffee
15:30 - 16:30	Dr Abigail Dymond (University of Exeter)	"Police Use of Force Reporting in England & Wales"
16:30 - 17:30	Drinks Reception

All Thursday sessions will take place in the Knightley Boardroom/Meeting Room in the Knightley Building on our Streatham Campus (55 on the campus map)

Friday

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10:00 - 12:00	Quick Talks	Lightning talks on research techniques including: Secure Data Access & Safepod (Chris Playford, UoE) Setting up Github (Travis Coan, UoE) Threading code in Python (Charlotte James, UoE) tidyverse in R (Alexey Bessudnov, UoE) Qualtrics (Susan Banducci, UoE) Computational Social Simulation (Lewys Brace, UoE)
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 lunch	Street Food Lunch

All Friday sessions will take place in the Clayden Computational Lab/Meeting Room in the Clayden Building on our Streatham Campus (54 on the campus map).