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Digital Research Prizes

 

Every year, we celebrate the amazing work of our community with our Digital Research Prizes. This year, we received nominations from a diverse range of fields including Law, Sociology, Economics, Education, Literature, Linguistics, Creative Arts and Politics. In June, we invited all of our nominees to a lunch reception in the newly opened EFI building, where they could mingle and read about one another's work on posters before the winning projects were announced. Congratulations, again, to all whose work was recognised!

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Best Small Data-Driven Project

Winner

Systemic structure of kinship is shaped by evolutionary processes

"Very interesting cross-cultural project combining social and linguistic evolution. Novel but understandable methodology was developed with clear visualisations."

Highly Commended

Beyond 'emergencies'? Reporting on humanitarian issues around the world

Highly Commended

Measuring the Rise and Fall of a Subreddit using Text Analytics: The Life Course of r/Antiwork

Best Dataset

Winner

Beyond Humanitarian 'Emergencies'

“Not only adheres to FAIR principles with clear, transparent documentation, but also exemplifies how data-driven analysis can reshape disciplines by calling into question existing ideas. The dataset has relevance outside of the authors' area of research and could, for instance, influence how (inter)national bodies respond to humanitarian issues or otherwise contribute to policy.”

“Very well commented and structured dataset that could be used besides the purpose of creation.”

“Very impressive capture of a decade of global media. Nicely documented with metadata and open license. I hope there will be a continuation of the collection over subsequent years.”

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Best Impact from a Data-Led Project

Joint Winner

Gender-ing ELT: International perspectives, practices, policies

“A wide-ranging international impact that is positioned to make a significant contribution to addressing the gender gap in education, starting with ELT.”


“Excellent community engagement. Global impact and use.”

“Great project with worldwide influence.”

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Joint Winner

The Influence Policing Project

“Multi-institution project with strong international impact in the area of security and influence, along with considered use (pros and cons) of algorithmically-directed decision making and awareness of bias.”

“Very significant and impactful project.”

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Best Novel Use of a Digital Method

Winner

News Media as a Lens: Exploring Neighbourhood Health through the Analysis of Geoparsed and Clustered Local News

“This interdisciplinary project itself makes a strong contribution to understanding community health in Scotland, and the success of the methodology suggests a wider application of this framework to assessing community health via local news in other areas. I especially appreciate the researchers' testing of their methods to confirm that the correlation they had uncovered was, indeed, reliable!”


“Interesting approach that brings together different methodologies to analyse large datasets and rethink methodological questions.”

Highly Commended

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Winners of the CDCS Digital Research Prizes 2024

winners of the CDCS Digital Research Prizes 2024

Read more about the winning projects
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