St Salvator’s Quadrangle
Democratic politics has always been a place of discussion, disagreement and debate. However, recent politics – especially in the age of social media – seems to be increasingly polarised. This raises the question of whether there are better and worse ways to debate controversial topics with each other, not just in public settings such as…
Movement analytics: using geospatial temporal data to understand behavior. Movement analytics has been boosted in the recent years by the ubiquitous availability and quality of spatio-temporal data on people and wildlife. Movement ecology and human mobility are the two main application areas of movement analytics, the first one aims to understand wildlife behavior for conservation…
Dr Theoni Photopoulou, Newton International Fellow from the Scottish Oceans Institute, School of Biology will give a talk on Using time series models to make biological inferences from animal tracking data.
Christina Fell from the School of Computer Science will give a talk on “Automatic detection of animals from aerial photography”.
Dr Miguel Nacenta from the St Andrews Computer-Human Interaction group in School of Computer Science will give a talk on “Maps, Space and the 2D Plane from the Data and User Interface Perspective”.
The lecture is concerned with reimagining peacekeeping, which starts with a return to critical theories and concepts in order to acknowledge the production of gendered, racial and classed inequalities in peacekeeping relations. In particular, critical concepts from gender theory such as standpoint and intersectionality, alongside postcolonial and critical race theories that include the colour line…
Professor Francie Cate-Arries, of the College of William and Mary, presents ‘Oral Testimonies of Franco’s Repression in Spain: Mourning, Memory, Symbolic Resistance’.
The Principal has invited Fiona Duncan, Chair of the Independent Care Review, to talk to staff, students and external guests about her work and some of the issues young people may face from this particular background in accessing HE. Following the talk, Ms Duncan will invite questions from the audience. You are invited to join…