Dr Julia Playford
Dr Francis Gacenga
Sam Hames
Ben McRae
Amanda Miotto
Dr Kathryn Hall
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Associate Professor Tim Sherratt The University of Canberra
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Jo Morris
Dr Paula Andrea Martinez
Dr Aneesha Bakharia
Amanda Miotto
Dr Nicholas Hamilton
Professor Joe Shapter
Carmen Lim
Choon Leng So
Belinda Weaver
Amanda Miotto
Dr Nicholas Hamilton
Damian Almeida
Mark Hoffmann
Belinda Weaver
Amanda Miotto
Dr Nicholas Hamilton
The Knowledge Bazaar is an open networking session where attendees can find like-minded people - people working in the same discipline, researching similar problems, or using the same tools.
This informal drinks and networking session will include our fun competition, 90 Seconds of Research Impact.
Dr Elisa Bayraktarov
Dr Igor Makunin
Dr Kathryn Hall
Dr Marlies Hankel
Amanda Miotto
Dr Sara King AARNet
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Dr Zeinab Khalil Institute for Molecular Bioscience
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Associate Professor Sama Low-Choy Arts Education and Law, Griffith University
Dr Melissa Burke
Elizabeth Alpert
Dr Marlies Hankel
Amanda Miotto
Associate Professor Sama Low-Choy Arts Education and Law, Griffith University
Dr Cooper Smout
Elizabeth Alpert
Dr Marlies Hankel
Amanda Miotto
Dr Rajyalakshmi Gaddipati
Damian Almeida
Dr Rob Clemens
Amanda Miotto
Dr Marlies Hankel
Amanda Miotto
Dr Catherine Kim
Carina Vasconcelos Nogueira e Silva
Fiannuala Morgan
Tianze Sun
Dr Sara King AARNet
Stéphane Guillou
Katya Henry
Dr Steffen Bollmann Centre for Advanced Imaging, UQ
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Professor Hugh Possingham The University of Queensland
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Dr Peter Binks
Professor Ginny Barbour
Katya Henry
Dr Cooper Smout
Sharron Stapleton
Dr Nicholas Condon
Dr Kathryn Hall
Dr Lim Khee Hiang
Dr Nicholas Condon
Stéphane Guillou
Jo Morris
Dr Kathryn Hall
Belinda Weaver
Mark Crowe
Moving around from a global, environmental NGO (the Nature Conservancy), to government (Queensland's Chief Scientist) to academia and all the science involved.
Professor Hugh Possingham Queensland Chief Scientist", The University of Queensland
Professor Hugh Possingham became Queensland Chief Scientist in September 2020. He is a conservation scientist and mathematician who has held positions in the university, public and not-for profit sectors. He is a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. He completed his PhD at Oxford University in 1987 as a Rhodes Scholar and was most recently the Chief Scientist at The Nature Conservancy, a global conservation organisation operating in 79 countries. A winner of two Eureka Prizes, his most significant contribution to conservation was the co-development of Marxan, software first used to rezone the Great Barrier Reef, and now used in almost every country in the world to inform the expansion of their marine and terrestrial protected area systems. Hugh has worked with all levels of government and many not-for-profit organisations, pro bono, to improve the state of Australia’s threatened species and habitats. He is currently on the board of directors of BirdLife Australia. He has supervised over 200 honours students, doctoral candidates and postdoctoral fellows. He has published >650 peer-reviewed publications, >30 in Nature and Science.
More and more institutions in the GLAM sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) are sharing their collection data online, but what is it, and how do you use it? In this talk, I'll survey the types of data available – including metadata, images, OCRd text, and transcriptions – and explore possible research topics. Using tools and examples from the GLAM Workbench, I’ll show how GLAM data can be harvested, aggregated, analysed, and visualised. What can GLAM data tell us about Australian history, society, and culture?
Associate Professor Tim Sherratt , The University of Canberra
Tim Sherratt is a historian and hacker who researches the possibilities and politics of digital cultural collections. Tim has worked across the cultural heritage sector and has been developing online resources relating to libraries, archives, museums and history since 1993. He's currently Associate Professor of Digital Heritage in the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research at the University of Canberra. You can find him at timsherratt.org or as @wragge on Twitter.
In this talk, Professor Low-Choy will introduce the lifecycle of designing surveys, through to implementation and analysing.
Associate Professor Sama Low-Choy , Arts Education and Law, Griffith University
Associate Professor Sama Low-Choy is Senior Statistician at Griffith University, and spends her days helping others to address their research questions, by exploiting data, via: a combination of statistical advising, tailoring statistical methods via research, and convening over 70 training events annually on statistical and mixed (qual and quant) methods. She is keen on an inclusive approach to statistical philosophies and paradigms bordering on mixed methods, through her research foci on Bayesian priors as well as the conceptualisation phase of statistical modelling.
In this talk, Professor Low-Choy will cover the dos and don'ts of survey design and how to avoid the pitfalls of poorly designed surveys.
Associate Professor Sama Low-Choy , Arts Education and Law, Griffith University
Associate Professor Sama Low-Choy is Senior Statistician at Griffith University, and spends her days helping others to address their research questions, by exploiting data, via: a combination of statistical advising, tailoring statistical methods via research, and convening over 70 training events annually on statistical and mixed (qual and quant) methods. She is keen on an inclusive approach to statistical philosophies and paradigms bordering on mixed methods, through her research foci on Bayesian priors as well as the conceptualisation phase of statistical modelling.
Soils 4 Science is a citizen science project based at UQ's IMB that is dedicated to finding new antibiotics needed in the fight against the scourge of drug-resistant infections, better known as superbugs. Microbe-inspired products are the source of >50% of all antibiotics in use today. Healthcare systems are increasingly confronted by multi-drug resistant pathogens such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) that are resistant to most, even all, existing antibiotics. Illustrative of the risk posed by infectious diseases, the COVID-19 pandemic infected >120 million people leading to ~2.7M deaths worldwide. Our ability to deploy new approaches to vaccine development, including mRNA platform technology, enabled a swift response to this healthcare crisis. Similar investment in antibiotic preparedness is essential if we are to be ready for an even bigger infectious disease tsunami in the years ahead. Confronted by the loss of existing antibiotic treatments, and rising incidences of morbidity and mortality, the case for the identification of new antibiotics is clearly paramount to the current national and global healthcare priorities. Therefore, we established the FIRST Soils for Science Citizen Science Australian Program, including equipments, APP & website, that gave the general public a unique opportunity to work with scientists to discover new antibiotics from soil bacteria. This program engaged the public with the global issue of antimicrobial resistance through a practical soil-based activity, to address the challenges associated with the discovery of novel antibiotics.
Dr Zeinab Khalil Soils for Science Program Manager, Institute for Molecular Bioscience
Dr Zeinab Khalil is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at The University of Queensland and is the Program manager for Soils for Science. She completed my PhD in 2013 and to date her research career has identified and evaluated potential new drugs targeting infectious diseases such as TB.
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This informal drinks and networking session will include our fun competition, 90 Seconds of Research Impact.
The best time to talk with speakers and attendees
The best time to talk with speakers and attendees
The Knowledge Bazaar is an open networking session where attendees can find like-minded people - people working in the same discipline, researching similar problems, or using the same tools.
Dr Steffen Bollmann Affiliate Research Fellow, CAI, Centre for Advanced Imaging, UQ
Steffen is a Research Fellow in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at The University of Queensland, and an Affiliate Research Fellow at UQ's Centre for Advanced Imaging."
The two-day, hands-on, code-along workshop will introduce programming in Python. BYO laptop.
Book your placeAmanda Miotto eResearch Analyst,
Amanda Miotto is an eResearch Analyst, within eResearch and Specialised Advisory, Research, Specialised and Data Foundations, Griffith University.
Dr Sara King from AARNet will introduce you to Jupyter Notebooks, a digital tool that has exploded in popularity in recent years for those working with data. You will learn what they are, what they do and why you might like to use them. It is an introductory set of lessons for those who are brand new, have little or no knowledge of coding and computational methods in research. By the end of the workshop you will have a good understanding of what Notebooks can do, how to open one up, perform some basic tasks and save it for later. If you are really into it, you will also be able to continue to experiment after the workshop by using other people’s notebooks as springboards for your own adventures! This workshop is targeted at those who are absolute beginners or ‘tech-curious’. It includes a hands-on component, using basic programming commands, but requires no previous knowledge of programming.
Book your placeDr Sara King Training and Engagement Lead, AARNet
Dr Sara King is the Training and Engagement Lead for AARNet. She is focused on outreach within the research sector, developing communities of interest around training, outreach and skills development in eResearch. She is currently working on creating reusable guidance information for Jupyter Notebooks and other AARNet services to be adapted for Carpentry training workshops. She is passionate about helping others develop the infrastructure and digital literacies required for working in a data-driven world, translating technology so it is accessible to everyone.
The Gale Digital Scholar Lab officially released in 2018 and has continued to grow in popularity with Academics and Institutions across the world. Researching primary sources/text and data mining have become more intuitive and easier to access without having the prerequisite skills in digital humanities. Starting 2021 Gale began the upgrading the Digital Scholar Lab platform to include new technologies and bring the Gale Digital Scholar Lab design in line with other Gale primary source platforms. This presentation will focus on the new experience for the Gale Digital Scholar Lab, exploring the new tools and functionality being added (Officially Launching in December 2021) for a better user experience.
Damian Almeida Training Executive,
As the Training Executive for Gale, Damian is responsible for assisting Gale’s customers with any training that is required on the Gale product line. He is also responsible for The Gale Digital Scholar Lab in the ANZ region.
How to use GitHub Pages to create a version controlled, open CV. BYO laptop for this hands-on session.
Book your placeAmanda Miotto eResearch Analyst,
Amanda Miotto is an eResearch Analyst, within eResearch and Specialised Advisory, Research, Specialised and Data Foundations, Griffith University.
This Presentation will showcase how to get started with using the Gale Digital Scholar Lab, starting with a research question we will explore how Students/Academics/ Researchers and Librarians can use the Gale Digital Scholar Lab to search through the institution's primary source holdings from Gale, or upload their own content to build their content sets using articles from various historical newspapers etc. Analyse this content using the TDM tools available in the Lab and finally exporting the visualizations out of the lab.
Damian Almeida Training Executive,
As the Training Executive for Gale, Damian is responsible for assisting Gale’s customers with any training that is required on the Gale product line. He is also responsible for The Gale Digital Scholar Lab in the ANZ region.
BYO laptop for this hands-on training workshop introducing machine learning for imaging. In the first part of the workshop a brief introduction to the ideas of machine learning as they apply to image classification and segmentation is given. In the second part, the Trainable WEKA framework available in ImageJ/Fiji is introduced, and the participants are led through a series of hands on exercises on creating and applying classifiers for segmentation.
Book your placeDr Nicholas Hamilton Institute BioMathematician,
Dr Nick is the Institute Bio-Mathematician at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB), The University of Queensland, and holds a co-appointment as Senior Machine Learning Consultant with the Research Computing Centre at UQ. At IMB he leads a group in machine learning, bio-image informatics, mathematical modelling, and data visualisation.
This workshop will provide a starting point for working with data collected from the web, including social media. This will include: 1) an overview of different approaches to collecting data from the web 2) what to think about before you start collecting 3) worked example of making your own web archive 4) working with existing web archives 5) extracting structured data from archives. Everyone is welcome to attend! To make the most of the practical parts of this session, you will need to bring a laptop along, and to have some Python programming experience.
Book your placeSam Hames Data Scientist,
Sam is a software developer/data scientist with QUT's Digital Observatory where he supports researchers to collect, transform and analyse dynamic digital data.
Carmen Lim: What is the hype on medical marijuana in the U.S.? A Twitter based analysis.
Carmen Lim Graduate Digital Research Fellow,
The Graduate Digital Research Fellowship is a digital skills development program at the University of Queensland designed to prepare research students to academic or non-academic careers in digital scholarship. Fellows are confirmed research students who will spend 12-15 weeks honing their digital skills to enhance their current research/thesis topic or to work on an independent digital project.
Galaxy Australia is the 'Bring Your Own Data' analytical service for Australian life science researchers. It is a web portal to nationally distributed computer resources for the running of over 1,000 of the latest and best practice tools. It comes loaded with the most commonly accessed reference data to speed up your analyses. This workshop will introduce Galaxy and through two hands-on tutorials showcase how to use the service to rapidly and reproducibly analyse your data. BYO laptop, Chrome browser and web access.
Book your placeDr Igor Makunin Senior Bioinformatician, QCIF Bioinformatics,
Igor Makunin was trained in genetics and molecular biology, and has gradually migrated from wet lab work into bioinformatics and analysis of high throughput sequencing data. Igor delivers User Support for Galaxy Australia and provides bioinformatics support to Queensland researchers.
What is the Australian research cloud, and why would you use it?
Jo Morris User Support Manager, Cloud and Storage, ARDC,
Jo is the Cloud and Storage, User Support Manager for Nectar within ARDC.
Free time to network
This is a 'Bring your own device' session. What will people find when they Google you? Learn about different research profiles available and start creating your professional online identity. Use researcher IDs (e.g. ORCiD) to claim and link your publications.
Book your placeBen McRae Library Research Specialist,
Ben is the Library Research Specialist for data wrangling at Griffith University Library.
Dr Sara King from AARNet will show you how to: 1) Understand the basic differences between the different Internet technologies and connection types and in Australia and how to make the most of them. 2) Describe and define different network and data movement concepts (jargon busting). 3) Perform speed, ping and traceroute tests to check your Internet connection. 4) Calculate data transfer times. 5) Understand various network and connectivity constraints. 6) Transfer large amounts of data via the network. 7) Sync, store and share your research data safely. 8 0 Search for more advanced options for data movement and know where to go for help. BYO laptop.
Book your placeDr Sara King Training and Engagement Lead, AARNet
Dr Sara King is the Training and Engagement Lead for AARNet. She is focused on outreach within the research sector, developing communities of interest around training, outreach and skills development in eResearch. She is currently working on creating reusable guidance information for Jupyter Notebooks and other AARNet services to be adapted for Carpentry training workshops. She is passionate about helping others develop the infrastructure and digital literacies required for working in a data-driven world, translating technology so it is accessible to everyone.
This session will cover considerations on high performance computing and what you need to know to use a HPC. It will introduce attendees to the uses of HPC and answer entry level questions. BYO laptop to participate.
Dr Francis Gacenga Manager (eResearch), USQ,
Francis is the Manager (eResearch) at the University of Southern Queensland. He is an IT Service Manager with over 20 years' professional and teaching experience in IT services leadership, management, development, support and training.
Dr Aneesha Bakharia will present this talk. Algorithms such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), Non Negative Matrix Factorisation (NMF), and the more recent neural network inspired Contextual Topic Model (CTM) are able to find the latent topics within a document collection. Both algorithms map documents to topics and topics to words and perform soft clustering (i.e., documents and words can belong to multiple topics), making them particularly suitable as qualitative content analysis aids. In this presentation user-friendly Jupyter Notebooks in Python to perform topic modeling will be introduced and shared. The main focus of the presentation however will address issues that qualitative researchers encounter when using topic modeling algorithms which include trust, topic quality/coherence, topic interpretation, evidence gathering, and model parameter selection.
Dr Aneesha Bakharia Learning Analytics Manager, Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation,
Aneesha began her career as an electronics engineer but quickly transitioned to an educational software developer. Aneesha has worked in the higher education and vocational educational sectors in a variety of technical, innovation and project management roles. In her most recent role before commencing at UQ, Aneesha was a project manager for a large OLT Teaching and Learning grant on Learning Analytics at QUT.
Presented by Nick Condon and Deborah Barkauskas. BYO laptop. More information can be found on FIJI at https://osf.io/6q78e/wiki/home/ and https://osf.io/x2nyk/.
Dr Nicholas Condon Senior Microscopist, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, UQ,
Dr Nicholas Condon has recently completed his PhD in Professor Jennifer Stow’s lab at UQ's IMB. During his project, Nicholas developed a number of novel image analysis techniques to answer research questions about the cell surface of macrophages. He has a strong background in cell biology and a number of advanced microscopy techniques including Lattice lightsheet, deconvolution, LSM confocal and live cell microscopy.
This interactive session will demystify some of the questions you might have about copyright and your research. We will explore how to use other’s copyright material legally, and how to protect your own copyright. We’ll take a look at publishing agreements, Creative Commons licensing, provide some strategies on retaining your rights, and more.
Book your placeKatya Henry University Copyright Officer,
Katya Henry is the University Copyright Officer at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and the Creative Commons Global Network Representative for the Creative Commons Australia Chapter. She is a passionate advocate for open access and open education, and is deeply committed to the role librarians play in enabling access to information.
Free session for attendees to speak or teach.
Opening talk (includes Acknowledgment of Country)
Dr Julia Playford Executive Director,
Julia is the Executive Director of Science Development at the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
SAGE Research Methods supports research at all levels by providing material to guide users through every step of the research process. Nearly everyone at a university is involved in research, from students learning how to conduct research to faculty conducting research for publication to librarians delivering research skills training and doing research on the efficacy of library services. In this session, Dr. Lim will walk us through this comprehensive resource and explain how it can help to make the research journey easier.
Dr Lim Khee Hiang Customer Relations Training Manager, Customer Relations, SAGE Publishing APAC,
Dr. Lim Khee Hiang works at SAGE Publishing in Singapore as a Customer Relations Training Manager covering Asia Pacific. Prior to joining SAGE Publishing, he has 10 years of experience in Thomson Reuters primarily responsible for educating professionals in R&D, corporations, academics and government departments on IP & Science products & services and provides consultancy advice helping decision leaders to derive the best strategic value and usage for their research and daily workflow solutions.
Introductory workshop on using the EcoCommons for modelling of species distribution.
Book your placeDr Rob Clemens EcoCommons,
Rob is the Change and Communications Manager of the EcoCommons.
Meet and network with your peers.
A mixture of sponsor and other stalls.
Dr Peter Binks Vice-President, Industry and External Engagement, Griffith University,
Peter is a former CEO of the Business Higher Education Round Table (BHERT), of the General Sir John Monash Foundation, of the Garnet Passe & Rodney Williams Memorial Foundation, and of Nanotechnology Victoria. Peter studied quantum mechanics at the University of Tasmania, and completed a Doctor of Philosophy at Oxford University, addressing the structure of galaxies. He retains a commitment to science education, and has served on the Advisory Boards of In2science and the Institute of Railway Technology. He is a Director of Engagement Australia, and an advisor to the Centre for Policy Development.
An introduction to the Characterisation Virtual Laboratory (CVL) for processing large imaging and characterisation data sets using GPU processing on HPC. The rate, quantity and quality of imaging science data acquisition is increasing exponentially. Researchers need defined, reliable and rapid pathways that they can use to process these data. The ACCS (Australian Characterisation Commons at Scale) Project offers solutions to this critical need. The flagship capability of the ACCS Project is the CVL (Characterisation Virtual Laboratory) (www.cvl.org.au). The CVL offers a unique virtual space where researchers can access HPC capabilities and analyse their datasets using graphical interfaces for dozens of specialist LINUX packages. CVL is available to all Australian researchers working in imaging and characterisation sciences using their AAF login. Via the Strudel2 deployment over a web interface, researchers can access multiple deployments of CVL across Australia, depending on their specific tool needs and/or institutional affiliation. The CVL enables researchers to easily access HPC setups from their own PCs over the internet for processing large volumes of imaging data on remote systems. With 3 preset virtual desktop configurations, researchers can opt for basic, intermediate or heavy compute setups, enabling rapid analysis of terabyte-sized datasets. CVL comes preinstalled with dozens of imaging tools, and through the ACCS, has a team ready to install new packages in response to the changing needs of the community. The ACCS project aims to show researchers how they acquire data, move it into the CVL, and then export it back to their collections, completing a fully integrated workflow. In this way, CVL and ACCS bring data full circle from acquisition to final FAIR deposition.
Dr Kathryn Hall Training and Community Engagement Manager,
Kathryn is the Training and Community Engagement Manager at the National Imaging Facility.
In this presentation, I will provide explicit instructions on how to decide which node of CVL is right for you, and then how to access the CVL and set up your account. This will be a hands-on session and I will be stepping you through the pathway to establish your account and integrate your data collection. Accounts to CVL are provisioned manually, so there will be some lag-time between applying for an account and being able to use the CVL. I will run a follow-up session to show you how to work within the CVL environment.
Book your placeDr Kathryn Hall Training and Community Engagement Manager,
Kathryn is the Training and Community Engagement Manager at the National Imaging Facility.
In this follow-up session, CVL account holders can work through the steps to move data in and out of the analysis environment. I will show you how images acquired from instruments can be ingested directly into collections with newly emerging workflows (like Pitschi). Your data collections will then available within the CVL, ready for analysis. For those not yet connected with Pitschi, tools like FileZilla for sFTP or Globus can be used to transfer data collections. We will work through how analysed and annotated data can be exported back to collections, ready for repository storage.
Book your placeDr Kathryn Hall Training and Community Engagement Manager,
Kathryn is the Training and Community Engagement Manager at the National Imaging Facility.
Across science disciplines, software code is being written by scientists and deemed critical to research conclusions. This is evidenced by an increasing number of papers reporting the use of customised software code to process and analyse data. Although data and code sharing policy exists, publishing the details of bespoke software is not yet a general practice. Accessibility mechanisms for provision of the source code as part of a publication or pre-print are technically a solved problem. For example, we have free access to version control systems, persistent identifiers, archiving tools, licenses and dedicated software repositories. Policy at various levels either recommend or mandate software availability statements. These policies exist in support of validating techniques and results, computational replicability and reproducibility, and the increased likelihood for research peers to use and build on methods. The ARDC is proposing a strategy for culture change, with the greater aim of improving recognition of research software as a first-class research output. To attain this goal we need to coordinate activities with research software authors to See, Shape and Sustain research software. Our target audience are PhDs and EMCRs investing the most of their time writing, testing and maintaining research software. We aim to increase the visibility of research software projects for broadest use and reuse. Boost incentives such as crediting authors for their research efforts and for supporting computational reproducibility. We envision the impact of these activities will encourage more researchers to improve the quality of their code and promote research excellence.
Dr Paula Andrea Martinez Software Project Coordinator, ARDC,
Dr Paula Andrea Martinez is currently the Software Project Coordinator at the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). Her work supports recognition of research software and research software authors as enablers of better research. She is also an advocate of Open Science and diversity and active in various community projects such as the FAIR4RS, The Carpentries, ROpenSci and R-Ladies. She is also working with the Research Software Alliance (ReSA) as part time Community Manager.
Dr Melissa Burke will introduce the Australian Biocommons, whose mission includes actively supporting life science research communities with community scale digital infrastructure developed and maintained in concert with international peer infrastructures.
Dr Melissa Burke Digital Capability Adviser,
Melissa is the Training and Communications Officer for the Australian BioCommons.
Learn how to automate tasks with the Unix Shell. This is hands-on training. Attendees will need to bring their own laptops.
Book your placeBelinda Weaver Library Academic Engagement,
Belinda Weaver is the Head of Academic Engagement Services (AES) at Griffith University Library. She has taught more than 50 Carpentries workshops around the world. She recently completed an MPhil at UQ on the efficacy and usefulness of Software Carpentry training.
BYO laptop to discover how you can use the Nectar cloud to extend your computer's capabilities.
Book your placeJo Morris User Support Manager, Cloud and Storage, ARDC,
Jo is the Cloud and Storage, User Support Manager for Nectar within ARDC.
Spreadsheets are incredibly useful and versatile tools, but have you ever found yourself hitting their limitations? Maybe despite all your spreadsheet expertise, you're finding it awkward to model, navigate, or manipulate your data? In this session, we'll talk about a few other tools and techniques that suit data and methods which have outgrown Excel. You can share your experiences and issues, and maybe together we can find a way for you to store and use your data when spreadsheets are failing you.
Book your placeElizabeth Alpert Developer/Data Scientist,
Elizabeth is a developer and data scientist at the Digital Observatory, a research infrastructure facility at QUT supporting researchers by enabling use of dynamic digital data.
This is a full day, hands-on Workshop about using and accessing HPC. BYO laptop.
Book your placeDr Marlies Hankel Senior Developer & Consulting Manager, Research Computing Centre, UQ,
Marlies provides researchers with advice on HPC.
Mark Hoffmann presents the key things you need to know in this hands-on session. BYO laptop.
Book your placeMark Hoffmann Senior Health Informatician,
Mark provides researchers with advice on sensitive data management and REDCap.
Not sure what open access, open research and open science mean? Heard some myths that have left you confused? This panel will help you to navigate this complex but exciting world, give you pointers to tools and resources and slay some myths along the way. Join us for an interactive session where no question is out of bounds. Submit a question for discussion beforehand or ask it on the day.
Book your placeProfessor Ginny Barbour Director, Open Access Australasia,
Virginia (Ginny) Barbour is Co-Lead, Office for Scholarly Communications, Queensland University of Technology (QUT). She is Director of Open Access Australasia (previously Australasian Open Access Strategy Group) . She has a medical degree from Cambridge University, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. In 2004, she was one of the three founding editors of PLOS Medicine. She then became Chief Editor of PLOS Medicine, and then Medicine Editorial Director, finally becoming Medicine and Biology Editorial Director of PLOS from 2014 until 2015. She has been involved with many Open Access, publishing, and ethics initiatives including Chair of COPE (2012-2017), Chair of DORA Advisory Group, Chair of Cochrane Library Oversight Committee, and as a Plan S Ambassador. She is on the NHMRC's Research Quality Steering Committee.
Katya Henry University Copyright Officer,
Katya Henry is the University Copyright Officer at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and the Creative Commons Global Network Representative for the Creative Commons Australia Chapter. She is a passionate advocate for open access and open education, and is deeply committed to the role librarians play in enabling access to information.
Dr Cooper Smout Postdoc at the Queensland Brain Institute,
Cooper plans to help researchers organise grassroots action in support of open and reproducible research practices.
Stéphane Guillou will show you how how to use a variety of R packages to get and visualise OpenStreetMap (OSM) data. As an interactive, open-source, high-level programming language designed for data science, R is a great fit for dealing with OpenStreetMap data and introducing beginners to reproducible scientific computing.
Book your placeStéphane Guillou Technology Trainer,
Stéphane is the Technology Trainer at The University of Queensland Library.
Wrap-up and feedback session.
Belinda Weaver Library Academic Engagement,
Belinda Weaver is the Head of Academic Engagement Services (AES) at Griffith University Library. She has taught more than 50 Carpentries workshops around the world. She recently completed an MPhil at UQ on the efficacy and usefulness of Software Carpentry training.
Mark Crowe Manager, Skills Development, QCIF,
Mark is the Manager of skills development at QCIF and has been a key organiser of 2021 ResBaz Qld.
Introduction to the R programming language with Stéphane Guillou. BYO laptop.
Book your placeStéphane Guillou Technology Trainer,
Stéphane is the Technology Trainer at The University of Queensland Library.
Progress depends on a wide range of valuable contributions to the scientific enterprise (e.g., replication studies, null results, teaching materials, open science projects). At present, however, high-impact publications are rewarded over all other contributions, creating a powerful disincentive against open science behaviours. In this talk, I’ll highlight the cultural mechanisms that maintain this dysfunctional status quo and frame it as a collective action problem within the global research community. I’ll then provide an overview of my various efforts to foster a cultural shift in academia toward an open and reproducible future. These efforts include: the world’s first collective action platform for researchers (Project Free Our Knowledge), a prototype repository for multidimensional preprint and article ratings (MERITS), a meta-research program into alternative metrics and the peer evaluation process, and a novel scholarly publishing model that I believe could help to disrupt the traditional journal hierarchy. Finally, I’ll conclude my talk with an introduction to the new metascience and open research community at UQ (UQ-MORE) and invite attendees to join us for fortnightly meetings on UQ campus.
Dr Cooper Smout Postdoc at the Queensland Brain Institute,
Cooper plans to help researchers organise grassroots action in support of open and reproducible research practices.
Dr Elisa Bayraktarov: EcoCommons Program Manager, at Griffith University will give an introdutory talk on this modelling platform.
Dr Elisa Bayraktarov EcoCommons Program Manager, Griffith University,
Elisa is a conservation scientist and data diplomat. She did her PhD in Ecology in 2013, and led the development of Australia’s Threatened Species Index from 2016 – 2020. As a Program Manager, Elisa oversees the work of a team of agile software engineers (DevOps), scientists, science communicators, trainers and analysts to make EcoCommons the platform of choice for environmental and ecological modelling.
Grassroots communities of practice are a great way to build communities and skill share – creating an online presence and repository for knowledge, tutorials, and code can be a useful tool. We will introduce a workflow using Git and R to run a community of practice blog by forking a GitHub repository, creating a blogpost in R, and pushing the post back to GitHub. This workshop will feature the UQ Geospatial Analysis Community Group and use their new community of practice R blog as an example. Basic understanding of Git + GitHub and R + RStudio is helpful but the workshop will be aimed at beginners with no prior knowledge.
Book your placeDr Catherine Kim Postdoctoral Associate/Library Technology Trainer at The University of Queensland,
Catherine completed her PhD in Biological Sciences at UQ earlier this year and now splits her time between research and teaching R at the Library. Her research focuses on coral reef ecology and conservation and she is continually developing her R and data science skills.
This talk will highlight the basic knowledge required to write manuscripts in R Markdown and the advantages. Presenter Gayathri Thillaiyampalam completed her PhD in 2020 from The University of Queensland. She is currently working as a Research Fellow at Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery. Her areas of interest are bioinformatics, immunology and drug discovery.
Book your placeEstablishing the One Health management system for human, animal and environment is significant in the current pandemic situation. High-performance cloud computing and Big Data Analytics can be used in gathering, processing, and analysing human and animal disease data. The talk aims at the available digital research platform to engineer the one health system. Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) offers national data set for Health Studies Australian National Data Asset (HeSANDA) at ARDC. Similarly creating another National Data Asset for One Health systems would have many benefits for the research, Veterinary Sciences, Australian Cancer Research, pharmaceutical and Drug Discovery fields. Further, ARDC's Nectar Cloud would host the data analytical platform for the predictive analysis of the data. The recent advancements in Machine learning, Natural Language Processing, Text Analytics and Artificial Intelligence can be used in filling the gaps between biological sciences and information technology.
Dr Rajyalakshmi Gaddipati Business Analyst/Software Engineer at One Health surveillance and analytics, The University of Queensland,
Dr Rajyalakshmi Gaddipati (Raji) graduated from Swinburne University, Melbourne for Graduate Diploma in Biotechnology in the year 2010. She received PhD award from Victoria University- Melbourne in 2015. From 2015 Oct till 2021 Oct, she worked as a lecturer for Master of Information Technology course for Charles Sturt University and Federation University.
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Choon Leng So The Graduate Digital Research Fellowship is a digital skills development program at the University of Queensland designed to prepare research students to academic or non-academic careers in digital scholarship. Fellows are confirmed research students who will spend 12-15 weeks honing their digital skills to enhance their current research/thesis topic or to work on an independent digital project.,
Graduate Digital Research Fellow
1) Carina Vasconcelos Nogueira E Silva: Social media for health promotion and skin cancer prevention, 2) Fiannuala Morgan: Bushfire Reporting and Fiction in 19th Century Australian Newspapers, 3) Tianze Sun: Media representations of youth vaping: A corpus-based analysis of US newspaper coverage from 2014 to 2021.
Carina Vasconcelos Nogueira e Silva Graduate Digital Research Fellow,
The Graduate Digital Research Fellowship is a digital skills development program at the University of Queensland designed to prepare research students to academic or non-academic careers in digital scholarship. Fellows are confirmed research students who will spend 12-15 weeks honing their digital skills to enhance their current research/thesis topic or to work on an independent digital project.
Fiannuala Morgan Graduate Digital Research Fellow,
The Graduate Digital Research Fellowship is a digital skills development program at the University of Queensland designed to prepare research students to academic or non-academic careers in digital scholarship. Fellows are confirmed research students who will spend 12-15 weeks honing their digital skills to enhance their current research/thesis topic or to work on an independent digital project.
Tianze Sun Graduate Digital Research Fellow,
The Graduate Digital Research Fellowship is a digital skills development program at the University of Queensland designed to prepare research students to academic or non-academic careers in digital scholarship. Fellows are confirmed research students who will spend 12-15 weeks honing their digital skills to enhance their current research/thesis topic or to work on an independent digital project.