WEBINARS: DATA SCIENCE IN THE NEWS


QUT's Data Science Centre collaborates with QAAS as joint hosts of a monthly Webinar in the series "Data Science in the News". The webinars are held on a Friday for an hour starting at midday, and are uploaded to YouTube.

Next webinar:

Several times a year QAAS selects the topic, organizes the speakers, and provides the moderator. 


Webinars for 2025 with QAAS leadership:

 
Next webinar: 

September 5, 2025, 12pm. "Citizen science and consumer engagement – are they the same?"


Description: ‘Since many grant bodies require significant consumer input, co-designing projects from the inception, the webinar will explore if the long-standing citizen science approach still holds. Given the changing landscape of grant funding, worldwide turmoil, and changes in research environments, we now more than ever, need to be more strategic in working for and with the public consumers.’

Moderator: Prof. Brenda Gannon (UQ).

Panellists: 

Prof. Brian Head, UQ, Public Policy, former Director of the Centre for Policy Futures


A/Prof. Jen Seevinck, QUT, chief investigator in the QUT Design Lab and leader in the QUT More-than-Human Futures group. 

A/Prof. Carl Woods, Skill Acquisition (Sport Science), Learning Design Lead Queensland Academy of Sport and School of Human Movement, UQ.

A/Prof. Zoe Rutherford, 
Stream Lead- Mental Health Evaluation Research Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, Queensland Health, and Associate Prof, School of Public Health UQ.


November 28, 2025. "Trade in a Trumpian world." 

Moderator: Prof. John Quiggin
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Panellists:
Prof. Karen Hussey (UQ)
A/Prof. Mark Ryan (QUT). 

 

The other monthly webinars will be announced to QAAS Fellows and Members by email and on the QAAS home webpage.



Past 2025 webinars include:

July 11, 2025. QUT Data Science Centre, "Extreme data science"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aalnjqHhPCA


May 23, 2025. "After the COVID-19 pandemic – the good, the bad and the ugly?"
https://youtu.be/Lf2QFbUwHDY?si=_8kyF0jouNJ9tCdG



Past QAAS-QUT webinars include:


September 27, 2024: "Hate speech"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPk_MOHt2bA&t=38s

May 31, 2024: "Circular Economy: Progress & barriers to a more sustainable and equitable world":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TRubzOYeiE

August 25, 2023, “Future trends 2023 and beyond”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dctaVTDT0VY

31 March, 2023, “Robodebt”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlP-kHbnjfY&t=6s



Other webinars in this series can be found here.



 
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