Scientific Data in Science Diplomacy

(Introducing the new ERC project Neworld@a)

24 February 2022

This meeting is to launch the new project Neworld@a - Negotiating World Research Data : A Science Diplomacy Study (2022-2027) funded by the European Research Council. The project is a cross-continental collaborative scheme aiming to chart the shaping of the current world data system with the ambition of both reconstructing its historical ancestry, and better understanding its geographical unevenness.

The meeting will be in a hybrid format and scholars interested can either join us online or in person (please note COVID restrictions will apply in line with University of Manchester policy).

Please join us to share knowledge, ideas and views about the (science) diplomacy of scientific data!

Venue: Pentahouse Room, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester

Online venue: You can also join this event online (via Zoom). Details will be emailed to registered participants.

Schedule

10-10.30 Meet and Greet/breakfast

10.30-11.20 Simone Turchetti, project PI, Presentation of Neworld@a followed by Q&A session (lead by Aya Homei)

11.20-11.30

11.30-13.30 Session 1 Data in Perspective (led by Gordon Barrett)

Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam), Data and the Global South

Anna Scaife (University of Manchester), Big Data and Big Science

Bruno Strasser (University of Geneva), How Small is Big Data?

13.30-14.30 Lunch

14.30-15.50 Session 2 Studying Data through Social Network Analysis (led by Lif Lund Jacobsen)

Short presentations by Dirk Wintegrun (MPIWG), Roberto Lalli and Carringtone Kinyanjuy

15.50-16.00 Break

16.00-17.00 Session 2 Presentation of individual research components (led by Simone Turchetti)

Short presentations by Gordon Barrett, Doubravka Olsakova, Aya Homei, Sam Robinson, Lif Lund Jacobsen, Matthew Adamson, and Giulia Rispoli

Event will end by 17:30