Research Café

Research Café offers an informal space to share research, innovative ideas, methods and concepts for the enhancement of knowledge and enrichment of the academy and the society in which it serves.

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The Research Café enables students, staff and the public to meet and discuss the research work happening at the University of Edinburgh in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere. Cafés take place throughout the year and we hope to cover as broad an array of research topics as possible.

We are always keen to take suggestions, theme requests, or volunteers to run a café and share their work with a wider audience.

Check back here for future events and news, and view reports on past events.

Upcoming Research Café - research methodologies and research well-being.

Research Café - research methodologies and research well-being. 

23 Oct 2024, 14.10-15.40

 

Our Research Cafe presenters:

Dr Hazel Christie on: Interviewing distressed individuals and households

The threat of losing a home is one of the most heartbreaking experiences anyone can encounter.  In this talk I revisit the process of interviewing households with mortgage arrears who were in danger  of losing their homes,  I consider the emotionally gruelling nature of such interviews both for the respondents and for me.

Dr Hazel Christie is a qualitative researcher, and also Head of Continuing Professional Development Framework for Learning and Teaching at the Institute for Academic Development

 

Onyebuchi Enechukwu on: Participatory Research and Impact

Participatory research and impact would review reasons for research and methodology. It would highlight participatory research as a sustainable practice, using a case study of “Improving the Cancer Journey” project in East London.

Onyebuchi Enechukwu is a Health Data Research UK Alumnus and Mastercard Foundation Scholarship Alumnus

 

Dr Nicki Frith on: Principles of Participation and Cognitive Justice in Reparations Action Research

Based on work that I have been doing for the past ten years with reparations scholars and activists, I will introduce some of the underlying principles that have guided our collaborations and practices, and which seek to address the power imbalances between scholars and activists. I will look, in particularly, at the work of the International Network of Scholars and Activists for Afrikan Reparations (INOSAAR), which was co-founded in 2017 by Joyce Hope Scott (Boston University), Esther Xosei and Kofi Mawuli Klu (from the Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe, PARCOE) and Nicola Frith (UoE). I will then consider how the INOSAAR’s approach to repair has informed the methods we have used in the Decolonised Transformations programme that is investigating the University of Edinburgh’s history and legacies of enslavement, colonialism and the development of racial thought.

Dr Nicola (Nicki) Frith is a Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, co-founder of the International Network of Scholars and Activists for Afrikan Reparations (INOSAAR) and Co-Chair of the Research and Engagement Working Group that is investigating the University of Edinburgh’s history and legacies of enslavement, colonialism and the development of racial thought.

 

Past Events

Presentation 1: Systematic reviews at scale

Presenter: Malcolm Macleod (Co-Director, Edinburgh Neuroscience, Academic Lead for Research Improvement and Research Integrity)

Summary: Malcolm discussed various roles for systematic reviews, the concept of 'Publomics' to produce a compressed intelligence, and discussed some of the validated tools available to support these endeavours.

Presentation 2: Building an automated evidence summary of genetic animal research

Presenter: Emma Wilson (PhD Student working with CAMARADES and SIDB (Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain))

Summary: Emma introduced NDC-SOLES an online resource which uses automated tools and machine learning approaches to systematically collect, synthesise, and display experimental evidence in genetically-modified animal models of neurodevelopmental conditions.

Presentation 3: Automating Systematic Reviews with AI

Presenters: Andrew Horne (Project Manager at Edina) and Mattia Opper (PhD in AI at Informatics)

Summary: Edina (at the University of Edinburgh) have been developing a variety of AI techniques to speed up all aspects of Systematic Reviews. Andrew Horne and Mattia Opper presented on work with the Vet, Engineering and Medicine areas where they've been able to improve review time by up to a factor of 10.

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