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By Karla De Lima Guedes, CDT Doctoral Student This year, thanks to the Web Science CDT training fund, I had the opportunity to attend two online National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) training courses: (1) How to Conduct Thematic Data Analysis on 26/01/22 and (2) Principles and Practices of Quantitative Data Analysis with Sarah Bulloch on 02-03/03/22. Continue reading →

EuroCALL 2021 By Karla de Lima Guedes Thanks to the Web Science CDT training fund, I was able to attend the 2021 European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning (EuroCALL) conference back in August 25-27th. EuroCALL is an organisation that brings together researchers, practitioners, and developers who feel passionate about the use of technology for the learning and teaching of languages and cultures. Continue reading →

Spotlight Panel 6: Does Decentralisation Help the Disenfranchised? Despite the advantages of blockchain technology, the world has experienced many self-serving projects profiteering from often desperate people in the name of decentralisation. This panel answered some hard questions regarding disenfranchisement and decentralisation. Continue reading →

By Karla de Lima Guedes | iPhD Web Science Student Thanks to the Web Science CDT training fund, I had the opportunity to attend two National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) training courses: (1) Introduction to NVivo in March/21 and (2) Analysing Literature and Documents with NVivo in April/21. Continue reading →

By Juljan Krause | iPhD Web Science Student Earlier this year, I did a 10-week training course in quantum computing and communication with xPRO, the professional development unit at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I’m proud to say that I graduated with an overall mark of 97/100 and a Professional Certificate that carries a whopping 4.0 Continuing Education Units (CEUs). Continue reading →

By Lesia Tkacz  | Web Science iPhD student Thanks to the Web Science CDT training fund, I had the opportunity to attend the 13th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2020) which was held online from Dublin from 15 to 18 December. As a subfield of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural Language Generation (NLG) generates text from data. Continue reading →

Web Science CDT student Lesia Tkacz Winchester School of Art Alumna Dr Noriko Suzuki-Bosco After enjoying the collaboration process on a short ​WSA community building project​, Tkacz and Suzuki-Bosco teamed up again to create a workshop for the University of Southampton’s 2020 Human Worlds Festival. Continue reading →

Back in July, the University hosted the WebSci'20 international conference. This was an opportunity for academics from across the world to descend on Southampton to share their research, discuss topics of common interest, network and otherwise socialise. WebSci'20 brought together researchers from various disciplines including computer and information science, economy, communication and health science. Continue reading →