CDCS Digital Research Prizes Awards Ceremony

 

On May 18th, we were delighted to be able to bring our CAHSS community together in person for a lovely evening of networking, cupcakes and fizz to celebrate the winners of the 2022 CDCS Digital Research Prizes!

The Digital Research Prizes were created to recognise the amazing data-led projects and activities going on across the College. CDCS Director, Professor Melissa Terras, awarded the following prizes: 

Best Small Data-Driven Project

• Winner: The Festivals & Communities Map 
• Highly Commended: Feeling Moved Means Feeling Connected? Investigating Prosocial Kama Muta
• Commended: Covid, Furlough and Creative Businesses

Best Impact from a Data-Led Project

• Joint Winners: 'Worker Data Science' Can Teach Us How to Fix the Gig  Economy/Digital Worker Inquiry & The Scottish Election Study

Best Data Visualisation

• Winner: Doodling with the eyes while looking at the bedroom ceiling
• Highly Commended: Searching Racism after George Floyd

Best Data-Driven Research Publication

• Winner: Nailing Down Volatile Temperatures: Examining Their Effects on Asset Prices (Bortolan, Dey & Taschini)

Best Data-Focused Course

• Winner: Digital Humanities for Literary Studies
• Commended: Computational Text Analysis

Best Dataset

• Winner: Multi-tissue and multi-isotope (δ13C, δ15N, δ18O and 87/86Sr) data for early medieval human and animal palaeoecology

 

We also celebrated the Centre’s third year and the launch of our 2021-22 annual report! We look forward to getting everyone together again soon.

 

Find out about the winning projects here.

Read the full annual report here.