Tag: teaching

Join Campus Fryslân

Are you an expert working on climate with a strong sense of data issues? Do you want to help students learn to navigate climate data and build better interfaces? The Knowledge Infrastructures Dept at Campus Fryslân is recruiting: we have an opening for Assistant… Continue Reading “Join Campus Fryslân”

Data and Society–Our book is out!

Published version available from Sage and authors’ accepted manuscript available from our university repositories (U. of Exeter and U. of Groningen).

Academic education after the pandemic

  At long last, the debate about the kind of education we want to be providing is emerging. The Data Research Centre (DRC) has an opinion piece on Science Guide and we have produced a discussion guidefor the academic community  on distance learning. A… Continue Reading “Academic education after the pandemic”

Launching of WTMC series

Looking back on 2019, I’m especially proud of having led the launch of the WTMC series on teaching and learning STS. This series is based on the collective wisdom of the WTMC network that gets channelled into training events for PhDs. Each issue of… Continue Reading “Launching of WTMC series”

Energy Transition in the wild: an Excursion to Seestadt

Anna Pillinger, Stefan Lasser, Harrie Mort, Tzu-Min Chang (photo), Anne Beaulieu and participants of the course “Energy and Big Data: Transition and the informational turn in Energy.”  University of Vienna, Summer Term, 2018. On a crisp Friday morning the students of the seminar class… Continue Reading “Energy Transition in the wild: an Excursion to Seestadt”

Big Data and Energy: crucial intersection

Data seems to be everywhere in contemporary society, including energy.  Precisely because of this ubiquity, it is important to consider how data is created and used, and how it circulates, so that we can understand the implications for the energy transition, whether in the… Continue Reading “Big Data and Energy: crucial intersection”

When Big Data and Energy Meet

In 2018, one of the activities I’ll be pursuing as visiting professor at the Department of Science and Technology studies (blog) at the University of Vienna is giving a course on energy and big data. This will be the occasion to explore with students… Continue Reading “When Big Data and Energy Meet”

Getting ready for “Images and Visualisation: Imaging Technology, Truth and Trust”

In a couple of days, I’ll be heading off to Norrkoping, Sweden for a summer school on visualisation. My talk will address two conventions found across many imaging modalities area fields: the view form nowhere and the seamless zoom. The presentation will be posted… Continue Reading “Getting ready for “Images and Visualisation: Imaging Technology, Truth and Trust””