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… Read More »An Informal Chat
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… Read More »MiDAS: A Cautionary Tale
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… Read More »A meeting, big data, and the new normal of life and work
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… Read More »What is the PEX algorithm and why is it important to study it?
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… Read More »The Elevator Pitch
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… Read More »The Origins of HECAT – Part Four: Festivus
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… Read More »Podcast Highlight – Fully Automated
To briefly summarize, the WUERC project was an unemployment research project that took place in the summer of 2012, several of its members would go on to the HECAT project and so it forms an important part of HECAT’s history. By mid-June 2012 we had… Read More »The Origins of HECAT – Part Two: More WUERC
Sociology teaches us the importance of understanding that all things have histories, and of course HECAT is no exception. Today we will start at the beginning (or as near to the beginning as we can get). It was June 2012, the world was still reeling… Read More »The Origins of HECAT – Part One WUERC
Every so often we would like to highlight recent research / publications which are relevant to HECAT’s focus on (un)employment and algorithms. Today we are highlighting a piece by Didier Demazière, an accomplished Industrial Sociologist working out of the prestigious Paris Institute of Political Studies… Read More »Research Highlight – Didier Demazière