Webinar

RAIN Webinar series: Aquatic research

09:30 - 10:30 20 August 2020
This week's session focuses on aquatic research. Join us on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/708659623, Meeting ID: 708 659 623 Agenda: 9:30 - Maaten Furlong, guest presentation from the National…

Pandemic-city 3.0

08:00 - 10:30 25 August 2020
The post Covid-19 urban agenda ‘from crisis to transformation’ Hosted by the South African Cities Network and University of Witwatersrand School of Governance In combination with the…

Webinar: Social Network Analysis: Fundamental Concepts

15:00 - 16:00 1 September 2020
Vast swathes of our social interactions and personal behaviours are now conducted online and/or captured digitally. Thus, computational methods for collecting, cleaning and analysing…

Coding Demonstrations: Text Mining in Python

16:00 2 - 17:00 30 September 2020
Social scientists may find that working with semi-unstructured data, such as natural language text, is an essential but time consuming and difficult part of a research project. However,…

Foresight 3.0

13:00 - 14:30 4 September 2020
Many cards are up in the air with the pandemic – a ‘hyper-wicked’ problem, with deeper threat multipliers all around. How to manage such transformations, and steer from crisis to opportunity?…

Deeper City-3.0

13:00 - 14:30 11 September 2020
Many cards are up in the air with the pandemic – the future of cities being one. Can we expect enclaves of safety and risk, policed by surveillance cameras and paramilitaries? Or…

Webinar: Social Network Analysis: Getting and Marshalling Data

15:00 - 16:00 15 September 2020
Vast swathes of our social interactions and personal behaviours are now conducted online and/or captured digitally. Thus, computational methods for collecting, cleaning and analysing…

Webinar: Social Network Analysis: Techniques and Methods of Analysis

15:00 - 16:00 29 September 2020
Vast swathes of our social interactions and personal behaviours are now conducted online and/or captured digitally. Thus, computational methods for collecting, cleaning and analysing…

Eco-urban 3.0

13:00 - 14:30 2 October 2020
This is about the climate challenge, both local and global – how to get the science/tech, economics, politics, culture and psychology all working together? On one small and fragile…

Webinar: Key data: UK and cross-national surveys

15:00 - 16:00 8 October 2020
This introductory webinar is intended for anyone who wants to learn about the key survey datasets available from the UK Data Service which provide snapshots of the UK or that allow…

Lo-co-gov-3.0

13:00 20 October 2020
An interactive Mind-Lab on local empowerment, collaborative (co)-governance, and the potential for a collective local intelligence, at a time of uncertainty and disruption…. This is…

Food 3.0

13:00 - 14:30 20 November 2020
The global food system is the greatest single disruptor of climate and ecosystems, with growing gaps between the under-fed and over-fed. The principles of collective food intelligence…

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