Information School News

  Following the recent release of her new book Understanding Well-being Data , Information School Lecturer Dr Susan Oman will be exhibiting her research at the University’s Festival of Social Sciences , which is being held in the first week of November as part of the national ESRC Festival of Social Science. Dr Oman’s digital exhibition presents three animations on: well-being, data and understanding. She asks questions about the power and potential of well-being data to shape society, and how thinking differently about these issues could lead to a more understanding society.   Find out more here: https://player. sheffield.ac.uk/exhibits/ understanding-wellbeing-data? fbclid=IwAR3BZFpMisA- w7F04pPdtvWpRG2xWdgohl- mwQYBIjoFYTW4iM7k1YS__40

Last month (5-10 August) Dr Jorge Martins visited the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique, to meet with Professor Solange Macamo at the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology. The research visit, sponsored by the QR Grand Challenges Research Fund , enabled the development of a partnership to scope out a research project focused on the opportunities created through digital technologies for the promotion and presentation of cultural heritage in Mozambique. During the visit, Jorge met with research students working on information and communication technologies and heritage management projects and gave a research seminar on ‘Creative Industries and Digitalisation’ at the Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences.