Postdoc Presentation Series - Human-centric and Data-centric Natural Language Processing
March 2, 2022, noon to 12:45 p.m.
Hear Venelin Kovatchev present his work on human-centric and data-centric NLP in the areas of misinformation, automatic hate speech detection, and developmental psychology, part of the Good Systems Postdoc Research Presentation Series.
Good Systems Speaker Series - Analyzing social media from a user-eye view with PIEGraph
Feb. 25, 2022, 2 to 3 p.m.
Join us for our next event in the Good Systems Speaker Series, where Deen Freelon (Associate Professor of Journalism and Media at University of North Carolina) will discuss PIEGraph, a novel system for user-eye view research that offers key advantages over existing systems, and how his research team uses it to examine users’ potential levels of exposure to high- and low-quality information sources across the ideological spectrum.
Whole Communities–Whole Health Research Showcase
Feb. 25, 2022, 2 to 5 p.m.
Join us for the Whole Communities–Whole Health Research Showcase where we will highlight the work that has been conducted over the past year as we launched our community cohort research study in partnership with families in eastern Travis County, Texas.
Youth Town Hall on Covid-19 Vaccines
Feb. 24, 2022, 7 to 8 p.m.
Join this Health Information Session presented by the Whole Communities–Whole Health’s Community Strategy Team.
Postdoc Presentation Series - Flexibility and Insecurity: Disability as Motivation in the Gig Economy
Feb. 16, 2022, noon to 1 p.m.
Part of the Good Systems Postdoc Research Presentation Series hosted twice monthly in spring 2022.
Smart City Consortium: Master Research Agreement Streamlines Collaborative Research with the City of Austin
Feb. 11, 2022, 11 to 11:30 a.m.
This presentation will provide an overview of the the City of Austin and University of Texas - Austin's City Council-approved master interlocal agreement (ILA) and describe how you can get started leveraging it for your research projects with the City of Austin.
Good Systems Speaker Series - Data Feminism
Feb. 7, 2022, 2 to 3 p.m.
Join us for our next event in the Good Systems Speaker Series, where Catherine D'Ignazio (Assistant Professor of Urban Science and Planning at MIT) will discuss data feminism, a way of thinking about data science and its communication that is informed by the past several decades of intersectional feminist activism and critical thought.
Postdoc Presentation Series - A Brief Typology of Time: Temporal Structuring and Dissonance in Service Provision for People Experiencing Homelessness
Feb. 3, 2022, noon to 1 p.m.
Stephen Slota will discuss how time and temporality, conceived of as both sociomaterial practice and as a set of rhythms to be resolved for collaborative knowledge work, impacts the delivery and coordination of services for people experiencing homelessness in the City of Austin.
Planet Texas 2050 Resilience Roundtable Series - Linking Equity, Research, and Implementation: Climate Planning in Austin
Jan. 19, 2022, 1 to 2 p.m.
In this first edition of the Plant Texas 2050 Resilience Roundtable series, our panelists will provide the backstory for how Austin’s climate equity plan came together and ways in which researchers and local communities can be involved to help ensure equity throughout the plan’s implementation process.
Postdoc Presentation Series - Vaccine Hesitancy: The COVID-19 Effect
Jan. 19, 2022, noon to 1 p.m.
Postdocs who are working on research projects funded by or related to Good Systems, a UT Grand Challenge, will present their research in this presentation series. On Jan. 19 hear Tara Zimmerman (Information) present on the perception of public distrust, misinformation, and vaccine hesitancy pre-and post- COVID-19 vaccine rollout