News about Data

BARC welcomes Hanzhi Wang

BARC welcomes new Postdoc Hanzhi Wang to the team.

Emilie Munch Gregersen presents at Digital Tech Summit 2024

On October 30th DISTRACT researcher Emilie Munch Gregersen presented at the Digital Tech Summit, where she pitched the digital fieldnote app Ethnote designed for collecting, sharing, and analyzing qualitative data. …

New article: ”EthNote gives qualitative research a new format”

Recently TechSavvy Media published an article about the digital fieldnote app Ethnote, co-founded by DISTRACT researcher Emilie Munch Gregersen and DISTRACT coordinator Karoline Husbond Andersen. The article is written…

5 BARC papers at FOCS'24

BARC members and affiliates are presenting 5 papers at FOCS’24 held in Chicago, USA.

BARC welcomes Prateek Dwivedi

BARC welcomes new Postdoc Prateek Dwivedi to the team.

New paper: “Analyzing differences between discursive communities using dialectograms”

In the paper “Analyzing differences between discursive communities using dialectograms,” current and previous DISTRACT researchers Thyge Enggaard, August Lohse, Morten Axel Pedersen and Sune Lehmann introduce a new way…

BARC welcomes Mads Vestergaard Jensen

BARC welcomes new PhD student Mads Vestergaard Jensen to the team.

Mastering Meta-Control: From Cognitive Mechanisms to Practical Strategies - DISTRACT Talk by Signe Vangkilde and Rie Kristensen

On Friday the 27th of September, Signe Vangkilde and Rie Kristensen did a DISTRACT Talk where they explored core concepts and mechanisms of attention and control. They also provided research-based insights on ways of…

Long-COVID sufferers are conserving strength with a "hack" of their fitness tech

When people suffering from the long-term effects of COVID-19 faced more questions than answers from doctors, they began collecting data on themselves using fitness watches to better understand their disease. University…

New edited volume: “The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection”

Kristoffer Albris is the co-editor of the new edited book "The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection" published on Nordicom

BARC welcomes Christian Bertram

BARC welcomes new PhD student Christian Bertram to the team.

BARC's birthday

We celebrate 7 years of fabulous research, strong results, wonderful colleagues and good times!

New center will future-proof education of experts to Danish life science

University of Copenhagen and the University of Southern Denmark are leading a new center that will boost the pharmaceutical sciences education by integrating data science at all levels of education.

'The Social Life of Health Data': Health Records and Knowledge Production in Ghana

Guest Researcher at CAS and Marie Curie fellow at the IT University Alena Thiel has published a new book examining 'The Social Life of Health Data'

New edited book: The Economic Lives of Platforms - Rethinking the Political Economy of Digital Markets

Morten Axel Pedersen and former DISTRACT PhD Eva Iris Otto are amongst the editors in the newly published book "The Economic Lives of Platforms: Rethinking the Political Economy of Digital Markets"

Emilie Munch Gregersen and Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard facilitated a workshop at UAB

On June 10th DISTRACT researchers Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard and Emilie Munch Gregersen visited Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) to facilitate an interactive workshop

Morten Axel Pedersen and Emilie Munch Gregersen presented at UCPH Spring Festival

On May 31st Morten Axel Pedersen and Emilie Munch Gregersen presented on 'the festival feeling' at UCPH Spring Festival

Helene Willadsen will present at 2nd International Conference on the Economics of Working Environment

On June 21st DISTRACT researcher Helene Willadsen will present her work on 'Using workplace surveys to understand employee concerns and well-being'

Does your heart beat in sync with others'? DISTRACT at UCPH Spring Festival

Join us on May 31st where SODAS researchers Morten Axel Pedersen and Emilie Munch Gregersen will discuss what happens with our heartbeat when we join others at festivals, debates, and other collective events

Malene Hornstrup Jespersen presents at COMPTEXT 2024

In the beginning of May DISTRACT PhD Malene Hornstrup Jespersen presented at the COMPTEXT 2024 conference held in Amsterdam.

Emilie Munch Gregersen presents EthNote for Anthropology master students at UCPH

On May 3rd DISTRACT researcher Emilie Munch Gregersen presented EthNote for Anthropology students soon to embark on their first prolonged fieldwork

Srijan Butola joins HPS as PhD student

Srijan Butolas research will be associated with the DataSpace Project

New DISTRACT paper: "Who makes open source code? The hybridisation of commercial and open source practices"

DISTRACT researchers Anna Sapienza, Eva Iris Otto, and Peter Mehler just published the paper "Who makes open source code? The hybridisation of commercial and open source practices" in EPJ Data Science

Helene Willadsen presents at Trygfonden seminar at Aarhus University

On April 25th DISTRACT postdoc Helene Willadsen presented on gendered differences in choice of education at a Trygfonden seminar at Aarhus University.