Category: Iona’s Reflections
The following resources were used by data science researchers to describe how health information gets from GP appointments to research studies, and all the ethics, security, and anonymisation processes that take place in between. We are happy for other people to use these resources, if you find them useful. Coding Health Events Emily used […]
Healthcare data should ultimately be used for helping & healing others. That was the overall message to data scientists, from the CWC. At this CWC anchor event in September, three Mental Health Data Scientists described how health data is accessed, handled and used by researchers. The group discussed important topics including: How each health condition […]
Our Community Researchers have taken part in two workshops so far, each of which has created ‘data’. But what should happen to this data? Change of use? Some of the data was initially collected for the purposes of evaluation. However, upon further discussion with researchers, it turns out to be interesting ‘data’ in its own […]
Community Research? The Community Wellbeing Collective (CWC) describe themselves as ‘community researchers’, emphasising their community connections, the grassroots nature of their organisation and their interest in ‘finding out more’. Social Practice? Perhaps, in part, CWC’s choice of words stems from their history. CWC were brought together in 2021 by social-practice artist Jeanne van Heeswijk, as […]