Description
Data And Stories workshopOverview:
Qualitative, quantitative, stats or stories; data underpins many ways in which we work with communities. But how we empower communities to understand the data that is gathered about them and how can they meaningfully contribute to data gathering and analysis? Data play will explore the ways in which data underpins the way we work with communities and how we might engage more creatively and with more impact.
We will think about how communities may be represented in data through a range of interacting characteristics such as race, ethnicity, religion, gender, location, nationality, socio-economic status. We will use approaches from data justice to empower people to creatively address how those data can be used to act upon them by policymakers, funders and city councils (Albornoz, Reilly & Flores, 2019; Davies, 2020; Dencik et al., 2019). Approaches such as data feminism open up new opportunities for thinking about data justice through a gender lens (D'ignazio, 2023).
Examples of Data sources we will work with:
IMD at LSOA and SOA level, ONS data, NHS data, MHCLG data, ACE cultural data, Police data (e.g crime rates), DWP data
The workshop will include a short intro and then a practical sessions where we will play with data and tell stories. We will provide some data sets and outline some playful methods to translate more intangible experiences of communities in to the sorts of data sets that often underpin research.
| Period | 14 Oct 2025 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Sheffield, United KingdomShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | National |