This has been a very productive week for the HECAT project, with several important deadlines hit. We wanted to take a moment and update all of you. We would like to thank our partners in Sciences Po (France) for submitting their deliverable on the User Vision Statement of our project. This is a public document…
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An Informal Chat
Today our project met to have a coffee meeting, but via zoom call. At this difficult time, it is more important than ever to maintain our social bonds and make a special effort to reach out and discuss our work. Up until now our work package leaders had been meeting once a month to talk…
Job Announcement: Project Manager Role
Job Overview: We are currently seeking a FULL TIME or PART TIME EU PROJECT MANAGER to join the School of Business at Waterford Institute of Technology. WIT is currently coordinating the EU funded H2020 project, HECAT, in association with nine other consortium members from Denmark, France, Slovenia, Spain and Switzerland. This research funded under H2020…
MiDAS: A Cautionary Tale
One of HECAT’s core guiding principles is our commitment to developing an algorithm that is ethical and that has no strings attached. We intend for use of our algorithm to be entirely voluntary, and there are many cautionary tales in the world of data science that tell us why this is important. MiDAS was Michigan’s…
A meeting, big data, and the new normal of life and work
Earlier this week the HECAT Work Package leads met for our regularly scheduled monthly meeting. This time we were primarily discussing a number of different deliverables which are due in the coming months, which brought out some interesting tangential discussions. During this meeting we also had a chance to discuss the ethics of using so-called…
What is the PEX algorithm and why is it important to study it?
This article was originally written by Aisling Tuite in 2017 to discuss and reflect on PEX algorithms, in light of research funding acquired at that time. While HECAT has changed somewhat, the essential points of this article still accurately describe our approach and thinking with respect to PEX, as well as providing a great overview…
The Elevator Pitch
Researchers have been encouraged to produce and offer an elevator pitch of their research. The premise being that if you were in an elevator with someone for 45-60 seconds and had to explain your research to them in that time, what would you say? Today we will offer such a pitch. HECAT is a H2020…
The Origins of HECAT – Part Four: Festivus
The origins of HECAT is a series on the history of the HECAT H2020 project from the perspective of the main coordinating partner – WIT. In our last post we discussed the Economy & Society Summer School, a yearly week-long conference aimed at helping PhD students in a stimulating and convivial research environment. The first…
Podcast Highlight – Fully Automated
Recently a HECAT researcher, Magnus Paulsen Hansen was featured on the Fully Automated podcast, hosted by Nicolas Kiersey. The topic of discussion: was Foucault seduced by neoliberalism at the end? This has been a contentious subject within Foucault Studies for a long time, and the podcast takes a big step towards addressing the most prevalent…
The Origins of HECAT – Part Three: The Economy & Society Summer School
Today is an auspicious day, though many of our readers won’t know it. Today was supposed to be the first day of the Economy & Society Summer school, a weeklong conference held in Blackwater Castle in Cork, Ireland. The Economy & Society Summer School (generally abbreviated to ESSS or just ‘the school’) has run every…