Archived events, training and webinars
See below a list of our events and training opportunities which have taken place in the past. On many
of these events you will find links to videos or slides so you can catch up on what you missed.
Friday, 6 November 2018 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM GMT
University of Essex - Southend Campus
Data mining techniques are growing in popularity in a broad range of areas, from banking to insurance, retail, telecoms, medicine, research, and government. In this webinar, Dr Haider Raza, of the University of Essex, will explore methodologies of using open-source software R, used for statistical computing and graphics.
Thursday, November 8, 2018 - 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM GMT
Online
In this webinar, Dr Lisanne Gitsels, of the University of East Anglia, will discuss research into the factors that affect survivabilty of cardiac events.
Thursday, November 8, 2018 - 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM GMT
Online
In this webinar, Dr Lisanne Gitsels, of the University of East Anglia, will discuss research into the factors that affect survivabilty of cardiac events.
Friday, December 7, 2018 11:00 AM - 12:00 AM GMT
Online
In this webinar, Anupriya Misra, Doctoral Researcher at the University of Essex will explore rural labour markets. Despite its importance, very little is known about the phenomenon, its drivers and its impact on the labour outcomes of young workers and on the development of rural areas. Providing a deep dive into the drivers, motivation behind entrepreneurship in rural areas and how entrepreneurship can be used as a tool to promote growth in rural areas, the webinar will cover the most cutting-edge research. The webinar will also touch upon the underpinning policies that can promote rural entrepreneurship and importance of social networking for rural entrepreneurs.
Wednesday, September 19, 2018 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM BST
Online
In this webinar, Isha Mishra, PhD Researcher at the Essex Business School, University of Essex, will explore what is meant by "skills gap", how the skills gap affects social welfare and the ways in which local council uses this information to address skills gap.
These 15-minute presentations - Part of the Research Methods Festival 2018 - will bring together computer and social scientists from the University of Essex to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing researchers applying methods from the fast-developing fields of natural language processing (NLP), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to social science problems.
The purpose of the session is to provide an overview of the role that synthetic data can play in social science when working with personal data. We also want to present different techniques that are available for the development of synthetic data and discuss the tests that are available to assess the accuracy of the synthetic data against real data.
The lecture will examine the strengths and weaknesses of the Essex economy, drawing on the Commission’s recent report.
Dr Andrew Sentance, Senior Economic Adviser to PwC, and Chair of the Essex Economic Commission, will set out a challenging agenda for action that could enable the county’s economy to achieve stronger economic growth in the decade ahead.
7 June 2018, 2pm - 3pm
In this webinar, Professor John Cantwell, from Rutgers University, will argue that the character of global-local relationships in knowledge development has been transformed in the information age. While developing technological knowledge still depends critically on local networks or clusters, the international connectivity of a place has now become vital to the functioning of local innovation systems.
Tuesday 10 April and Wednesday 11 April 2018
The Lecture Theatre (The Forum), Southend Campus
We are delighted that a number of our researchers will be taking part in The Journal of World Business a paper development workshop.
Tuesday 22 May, 12pm - 1pm
In this webinar Dr Jon Chamberlain presents findings from his latest paper, Scalable Visualisation of Sentiment and Stance.
Friday 27 April, 11am - 12pm
In this webinar Dr Aline Villavicencio from the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at University of Essex, introduces natural language processing (NLP) and explores her recent work on cognitively motivated NLP.
Monday 23 April, 10am - 4:30pm
This course will introduce you to Python as a programming language and how it can be effectively used when processing big data.
Thursday 15 March, 11am - 12pm
In this webinar Professor Ruth Hancock will be analysing the market for care homes for older people using Care Quality Commission and other data.
Wednesday 21 February, 12pm - 1pm
In this seminar, Richard Skeggs will be discussing mining data from online sources.
Tuesday 27 May, 1pm - 2pm
In this webinar Richard Skeggs will give an overview of what Apache Mahout is and the functions that are available.
Thursday 8 February, 11am - 3.30pm
In this seminar, Professor Elena Kulinskaya will be discussing her research on cumulative sum control chart -type methods aimed at catching deviating performance.
Monday 4 June 2018
Essex Business School Room 2.1
Featuring a keynote address by one of the foremost international researchers, Professor Douglas Cumming this conference will bring together both UK and overseas academics engaged in research on debt crowdfunding (peer to peer lending) and equity crowdfunding to discuss their recent research on these topics.
6 December 2017
Centrum Building, Norwich Research Park
Our researchers at University of East Anglia are proud to be hosting the next regional LARIA meeting for the East of England. This collaborative event will explore the benefits of local government working in partnership with researchers to assess their services and to deliver improvements.
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