‘Researching up’ or investigating government and corporate practices is often riddled with obstacles. In place of interview answers, come streams of PR sound bytes and ‘no comment’ replies. With lawyers at ready disposal and PR teams performing 24/7 image-makeovers, the practices of corporate and government elites often take place behind layers of concealer. So how…

ADTV was conceived in 2013 to overcome the challenges of exclusion, by creating a participatory platform of marginalised voices that can communicate direct to a diverse array of networked publics. Produced by and for its user-groups, ADTV (http://www.accessdorsetcentre.org) provides web-based peer support, information and lifestyle videos about their life experiences, events, social action projects and…

This Project concerns young peoples’ (11-18) relationships to their local environment. Working alongside local and national environmental campaigns and charities, we will be building an interactive media platform that provides young people with a space to talk about local environmental features, concerns and campaigns. We will also be analysing the data that this platform creates.

re-posted with permission from authors: https://www.psa.ac.uk/insight-plus/blog/greece-facing-imminent-humanitarian-crisis by Roman Gerodimos and Sofie Edlund On Tuesday, March 1st, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency warned that Greece is facing an imminent humanitarian crisis. Over the last few months UNHCR has been monitoring arrivals to South-East Europe on a daily basis and collating data from various sources into a daily…

The emergence of Graphic Medicine, and now Graphic Social Sciences, seeks to make connections with audiences, in part, through their focus on emotion, empathy, point of view, and ability to capture multiple perspectives. As such, graphic narratives are well suited to qualitative research and its methods. But how can quantitative social science data best be…

The numerical and factual information are not the only elements in data visualisations that are being interpreted by end users. For example, when used ambiguously symbols can confuse how a visualisation is read. (gingerbread man shape = male…every time…this figure is gendered) And, while this simplified bookmark can’t help you solve the data viz world’s challenges…

Looking to shift your communications and wanting to try something new? The comics medium is approachable, accessible and relatable and can communicate serious topics of health, wellbeing and illness. These works, categorised as Graphic Medicine, both create emotive narratives and deliver information in an accessible medium. Here are a couple resources for you to have…

Date: 12/11/2015 Time: 10:00 – 16:30 Location: The Old School House, Gladstone Mews, Bournemouth, BH7 6BG Event Description: The move in recent years toward open data brings with it opportunities for information re-use, increases transparency, and encourages civic participation in data analysis and communication. From human rights issues to climate change, this increased emphasis on…

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Join us for a discussion on climate change, capitalism and security: EB202 (Lansdowne Campus) Friday 3 July 12:30-16:30 Sea levels rise, droughts, floods and superstorms destroy livelihoods and force migration. Entrenched in militarised security cultures, nature is rendered unstable, a risk, a threat to be mitigated and controlled. And those people, displaced and disenfranchised, are…