Contemporary Public Services are rapidly expanding their use of technology and IT solutions as digitalisation continues to take hold globally. With this comes increased data availability, which facilitated the rise in use of statistical modelling and mathematic-based solutions within Public Services. Here, Artificial Intelligence (AI)… Read More »Policy Launch: Public Service AI /// Trust – Values – Accuracy
Across Covid times, the world found itself frequently turning to the online world as a means of continuing a version of normality. The Economy and Society Summer School, an annual in-personal, residential retreat found itself turning to new means, operating across the online world and… Read More »Economy and Society Summer School 2023; Exploring at the Edge
Last September, the HECAT team visited our partners in the Employment Services of Slovenia for an intense round of piloting our emerging MyLabourMarket (MLM) Tool. Here, we explored the capabilities of MLM 1.0 with an array of stakeholders; exploring how labour market data could and… Read More »Piloting a Labour Market Tool
What better way to kick off the exciting final months of the HECAT project than with a trip to Spain? The HECAT team were graciously welcomed to Bilbao by our technical partners Technalia. Across 2 days, we collaborated on many aspects of our project and… Read More »HECAT Visit Bilbao
As 2022 comes to a close, we’ve put together a blog to share some of the biggest highlights of the year for the HECAT team. We’d like to wish everyone reading this a very happy festive season and are looking forward to an exciting and… Read More »2022 – A Year in Review
September has been a busy month for the HECAT team as we entered the piloting stage of our project.
As many academics know, May is traditionally known as ‘conference season’ for reasons that are self-explanatory. For the last 2 years we were unable to meet in-person due to COVID, but with lockdown restrictions eased we are once again getting out there to conferences. In… Read More »May – A Very Busy Month for HECAT
This is a repost of the original article, which you can find here: http://www.bos-cbscsr.dk/2022/04/07/sustainable-labour-market-integration-challenges-and-advancements-in-algorithmic-profiling-of-jobseekers/ By Clément Brébion and Janine Leschke ◦ 5 min read ◦ The number of countries that are using algorithms to profile jobseekers has been on the rise since the 1990s. Algorithmic profiling aims… Read More »Sustainable labour market integration: challenges and advancements in algorithmic profiling of jobseekers
The Sociological Observer has just published its latest series and we are proud to say that HECAT has 4 articles in this issue with publications by Ray Griffin, Aisling Tuite, Zach Roche, and Antoinette Jordan. The sociological observer publishes original research and reflections by scholars… Read More »The Sociological Observer: Rethinking Welfare in the New Normal
Hi everyone, today we are excited to announce the relaunch of our website. We hope the new version is more legible and clear than the old one. This has been in the works for some time, and we are grateful for the patience shown while… Read More »Announcing our Website Relaunch!