Lauren Gawne, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Endangered Language Documentation Programme, SOAS.

Lauren's research is focused on the use of gesture and language in Tibetan varieties spoken in Nepal, and she is also interested in critical approaches to research methods and data management.

"Talking about data: An introduction to the state of the field in Linguistics"

Lauren will discuss how the notion of reproducible research has received considerable attention in recent years. For example, within linguistics the last decade alone has provided a wealth of literature on good practice in language documentation. In this talk, she will discuss a survey of research in the field of Linguistics, to see how the discussion of good data management is translating into research writing. This talk offers practical suggestions for researchers at any career stage and in any field to improve description of methodology in their own research.

Chris Grundy, Assistant Professor of GIS, LSHTM

Chris is interested in how GIS can be used in novel ways in public health, particularly its use in surveillance, interventions, and in public engagement and knowledge transfer. Increasingly his work is on methodology around data collection, visualisation and dissemination.

“Different perspectives on research data management - crowd sourcing and institutions”

This talk will offer different perspectives on research data management, in terms of data collection, methodology and collaboration. Chris will discuss the opportunities and challenges of crowd sourcing research data, and they ways in which data protocols can respond to this. Also,he will explore how to think about research data from an institution's perspective.

Alessandro Provetti, Director of BIDA, Birkbeck

Director of the Birkbeck Institute for Data Analytics, Alessandro Provetti will be speaking about his work in dealing with data from social networks. His talk will be a good introduction to the field of Social Network Analysis.

Shifting Perspectives on Research Data