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Digital Research Prizes

 

It is always a great pleasure to host our annual celebration of digital research, the CDCS Digital Research Prizes.  Open to researchers across the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, the prizes this year showcased projects large and small that use digital methods to address diverse research questions, including work on poverty premiums, barriers to education, national security, online safety and LLMs. Awards are presented at a ceremony in May, which makes a lovely moment to bring the CDCS community together. 

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The text Best Small Data Driven Project on white against a navy background.

Winner

Measuring the energy poverty premium in Great Britain and identifying its main drivers based on longitudinal household survey data

"This project's findings make a strong contribution to better understanding fuel poverty in the UK, which will hopefully positively impact policy decisions in the future."

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Highly Commended

Utilising social media data and text analysis: corporate leaders' social and environmental information dissemination

Highly Commended

Data Doppelganger.

The text Best Data Visualisation in white against a navy background.

Winner

Paths in Education

"This visualisation effectively and accessibly provides a compelling snapshot of the difficulties young people in Uruguay face in completing their education. The visualisation itself is not only creative, but it also contributes to shaping the narrative."

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The text Best dataset in white against a navy background

Winner

National Security and Defence Documents Dataset (1987-2024) 

"A high-quality, well-documented dataset that will be of interest to many researchers and teachers at the University and beyond."

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The text Best Impact from a data-Led Project in white against a navy background.

Winner

Equally Safe Online (ESO)

"This project is poised to make a significant contribution in addressing gender-based harassment and violence online, and the approach could also more generally intervene in addressing many negative phenomena on social media such as the spread of misinformation."

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Highly Commended

Data Education in Schools - Escape Rooms

The text Best Novel Use of a Digital Method in white against a navy background.

Winner

Do or Do Not: LLM Understandings of Collective vs Individual Action

"This exploratory study not only tests the method itself, but does so through a 'no-code' pipeline that makes computational research more accessible to those with various levels of digital literacy."

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winners of the CDCS Digital Research Prizes 2024

Read more about the winning projects