News and Events
Sir David Spiegelhalter's Talk on 10 March
Warwick Q-Step Centre is organising an event for schools on Thursday 10 March 2016 and Sir David Spiegelhalter will be giving a presentation based on his book Sex by Numbers. A few places are still available, please contact Q-Step team (Q-Step@warwick.ac.uk) if you are interested in attending the talk.
Warwick Q-Step - New Posts
Applications are currently being invited for two new posts:
- Assistant Professor – Politics and International Studies/Q-Step (Closing date: 16 February 2016)
- Associate Professor – Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies/Q-Step ( Closing date: 15 February 2016)
Details of both posts can be found on the University’s recruitment web pages: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/humanresources/jobsintro/.
Dr Stella Chatzitheochari - Article Published in International Journal for Time Use Research
Dr Stella Chatzitheochari has had an article published in the electronic International Journal of Time Use Research.
Fisher, K., Chatzitheochari, S., Gilbert, E., Calderwood, L. Fitzsimons, E., Cleary, A., Huskinson, T., and Gershuny, J (2015) A Mixed-mode Approach to Measuring Young People's Time Use in the Millennium Cohort Study electronic International Journal of Time Use Research 12(1): 174-180.
Forthcoming FSS/Q-Step Event - Big Data, Social Data: 10 December 2015
Come along to this exciting one-day event to find out more about the uses and challenges of big data for social science research! Sessions/speakers include:
15:45-16:45 – Big Data and Education Dr Ben Williamson
All welcome!
Register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/big-data-social-data-tickets-18990130993
IBM and Warwick Develop New Big Data Ethics Course
A partnership between the University of Warwick and IBM is to offer researchers guidance through the ethical minefield of using big data and real time analytics.
Following an existing successful academic partnership between the two organisations, IBM is providing support for the development of new postgraduate training through the IBM Faculty Awards programme.
For further information see the full University press release and other press cuttings: