NEWS & EVENTS

We have two positions open to work with the awesome team here at MDAP! Research Data Specialist Work closely with researchers to collaborate on data-intensive research projects and a contribute to the community of practice for data-driven research at The University of Melbourne. Apply now Applications close: Wednesday 15th February 2023 11:55 PM AEDT Research Data Specialist - Web Developer Work closely with researchers to design …

MDAP and Digital Studio’s new HASS Taskforce is here to help researchers bridge the gap between learning basic or single-tool digital skills and having the knowledge to develop high-quality research proposals using digital HASS methods. Help us help you! Take this quick survey and tell us what you want and need in this space. Open to all UoM students and academics. Take …

Tuesday 29 November 12pm – 1pm Hybrid event: In person at Melbourne Connect and online via Zoom Talk includes a 30 minute interactive presentation followed by open discussion, informal networking and a light lunch. Register now Please choose the correct ticket type when registering. About the seminar Working with health data can be an arduous process. There are specific infrastructure requirements as well as numerous governance and …

Details Wednesday 9 November, 11am to 12.30pm This is a hybrid event: In person at the Manhari Room at Melbourne Connect - for those attending in person, the panel will be followed by lunch and informal networking. Online via Zoom. The Zoom link will be provided after registration. Please choose the correct ticket type when registering! Register now Panel overview As the volume of data collected …

Thursday 6 October 1pm – 2pm Online via Zoom Register now Once you register, remember to add the invite to your calendar. About the seminar Nic will talk about his experiences working in data-intensive research as well as an overview about what's on the horizon for MDAP, including: Pathways to interdisciplinary research Computational models as tools for generating actionable insight from data Examples from the COVID-19 …

We’re looking to help researchers explore innovative, tailored and/or end-to-end approaches to their data intensive or data informed research. Collaborations can include data stewardship, wrangling, analysis, visualisation, access and much more. You may work in archeology, biosciences or economics. Your technical knowledge may be beginner, intermediate or advanced, and your idea may be challenging – but we want to hear from …

MDAP 2023 Collaborations EOIs open on 1 September. In the lead up we are running faculty-specific info sessions for researchers. We will go over general Collaborations info, the EOI process, a couple of short case studies from your faculties, and then an informal Q and A. Full EOI details, as well as dates of general info sessions, will be released on our …

Wednesday 24 August 12.30pm – 1.30pm Online via Zoom Register now Once you register, remember to add the invite to your calendar. About the seminar Research Computing Services (RCS) provides large scale computing and data storage infrastructure for researchers, and expert support in using it. Join us as we hear from Dr Stephen Giugni about what's been happening at RCS so far in 2022, such as the …

Interested in programming and other digital skills, knowledge sharing, and humanities and social sciences research? Join us at MDAP and let's have fun while making a real impact! About the roles Location: ParkvilleRole type: Part time (0.4 FTE); Fixed term for 12 monthsSalary: Academic Level A – $77,171 - $104,717 p.a. (pro rata for part-time) plus 17% super You will work closely with …

Details Wednesday 13 July, 11am to 12.30pm This is a hybrid event: In person at the Manhari Room at Melbourne Connect - for those attending in person, the panel will be followed by lunch and informal networking. Online via Zoom. The Zoom link will be provided after registration. Please choose the correct ticket type when registering! Register now Panel overview This cross-disciplinary panel will consider current …

Professor Andrew Turpin is moving on to westerly pastures, as Chair of Ophthalmic Data, Lions Eye Institute. This means MDAP is seeking a new Director. About the role Location: Parkville Role type: Part-time (0.4 - 0.5 FTE negotiable); Fixed-term (secondment opportunity) until December 2023 with possibility for extension Salary: As per current Level D or E Academic Specialist salary (pro rata) plus 17% super The …

The MDAP May Newsletter is out and available to view on your browser. This issue includes: June MDAP Seminar MDAP is seeking a new director (internal UoM applicants) Interns update and EOI for semester 2 Save the date for our July Panel Series News, events and opportunities from our CoP including CAIDE, MCDS and HADES Digital skills training Melbourne Coder Network …

Tuesday 14 June, 1pm – 2pm Online via Zoom Register now Once you register, remember to add the invite to your calendar. About the seminar The talk will discuss plans for digital HASS research support in the Faculty of Arts Digital Studio and beyond, drawing in part from an on-going collaborative project and discussions with colleagues at the University of Toronto Critical Digital Humanities Initiative (CDHI). Speaker Professor David Goodman is …

Tuesday 10 May, 12pm – 1pm Online via Zoom Register now Once you register, remember to add the invite to your calendar. About the seminar We are seeing an unprecedented global move towards the digitisation of the built environment, driven by national and international urban digital twin initiatives. These initiatives aim to improve real-time and longer term strategic decision making, planning and investment. Significant progress has …

Ed is a Senior Research Data Specialist at MDAP, galaxy simulation creator, hiking enthusiast and a keen appreciator of Iron Maiden. He holds a PhD in physics, and is passionate about the real-world application of research and advocating the need for industry and academia to join together to tackle the world’s big problems. Tell us a bit about your career trajectory …

Hear experiences and approaches to working with research partners across disciplines and the broader community. Tuesday 5 April, 11am to 12.30pm In person at Melbourne Connect Launchpad, 700 Swanston St, Parkville, VIC 3010 Register now About this event Bringing together researchers from different domains and expertise increases the complexity of research projects. Differing communication styles, outcome expectations, and discipline norms must be balanced and managed to …

A space to think deeply about what collaborating with AI coupled with speculative thinking makes possible for digital research. Includes AI-assisted mini-making session using pulp-o-mizer. With Sarah Healy and Amanda Belton Tuesday 15 March, 11.30am Online via Zoom Register now About the seminar We will explore current material stemming from a qualitative inquiry into how SentiOne, an AI-based social listening tool, could be used for research collaboration. …

Karen is a Senior Research Data Specialist at MDAP, bushland guardian and maker-creative working at the intersection of data and art. With a Masters in Cultural Material Conservation, she is passionate about data ethics and engaging community as essential to revealing the potential of cultural-based data collections. Tell us a bit about your career trajectory so far My current role in MDAP …

What is similarity in music? How can digital tools help us to understand the relatedness of works and styles? During this interactive presentation, we’ll explore some of the concepts, practices and challenges of modeling the quotable musical text in the digital domain, and how new tools for encoding, addressing and annotating music invite us to think across the disciplines (from …

The panel will discuss the complexities of working in secure environments and with sensitive data from different perspectives. Thursday 28 October 2021 1.30 PM – 3 PM AEDT The panel will be held online via Zoom. MC Dr Helena Lynn Dr Helena Lynn is Program Manager of Research Data Management at the University of Melbourne. She holds a BSc and PhD in Molecular Virology from the …

MDAP Collaboration EOIs are open for 2022. We’re looking to help researchers explore innovative, tailored and/or end-to-end approaches to their research data journey. Collaborations can include data stewardship, wrangling, analysis, visualisation, access and much more. Your technical knowledge may be beginner, intermediate or advanced, and your idea may be challenging – but we want to hear from you. MDHS info sessions Not …

MDAP Collaboration EOIs are open for 2022. We’re looking to help researchers explore innovative, tailored and/or end-to-end approaches to their research data journey. Collaborations can include data stewardship, wrangling, analysis, visualisation, access and much more. Your technical knowledge may be beginner, intermediate or advanced, and your idea may be challenging – but we want to hear from you. General info sessions Not …

Join our team of Academic Specialists enabling data-intensive research across the disciplines. As the Research Data Specialist (RDS) you will be joining the Melbourne Data Analytics Platform (MDAP) and will have a primary focus on Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS). You will be responsible for advising on, building and/or maintaining software and systems that support activity related to collection, analysis, storage …

The repliCATS project, by Dr Fallon Mody & Dr Martin Bush

Welcome to the MDAP newsletter! Our aim here is to share with you highlights from our MDAP collaborations, information about our MDAP seminar series, key dates for training and research partnership applications, and random cool stuff we have stumbled upon and would like to share.

In this document we showcase how we have contributed in 2020 across the University to research outcomes in areas such as human and animal health, preservation and understanding of culture, energy, neuroscience and more.

The Epoch of Incredulity: Data, Narrative & Contemporary Crisis, by Dr Tyne Daile Sumner

Bobbie is our resident genomics wizard, who knows a thing or two about data pipelines and draws inspiration from the film Mad Max and his two dear whippet babies. Meet our much loved social ‘glue’ of MDAP, Bobbie!

With an avalanche of misinformation and fake news about COVID-19 out there, who & what do you believe? Check out our 'Living with COVID' campaign, communicating the facts in a fun and engaging way.

Meet Emily, our resident expert on Australian and American politics during Australian federation, and enthusiastic traveller for blues dance and Broadway show experiences. Today, Emily brings a wealth of digital humanities experience to our team, after hopping over to MDAP from The University’s Digital Studio in early 2020.

Recently, our own Dr Maria del Mar Quiroga (Mar) starred on ABC podcast, The Pop Test joining hosts, Andy Matthews and Alasdair Tremblay Birchall, and comedians, Dilruk Jayasinha and Naomi Higgins to discuss all things ‘Computers’.

In 2020, MDAP collaborated with Dr Marianne Coleman, a new researcher in orthoptics to The University of Melbourne. In this three-part series, Marianne shares a bit about her research and experience working with us.

We are so pleased to see our colleagues, Dr Mar Quiroga and Priyanka Pillai become Superstars of STEM, joining sixty other women in a two-year leadership and communication program run by STA.

To help celebrate NAIDOC Week 2020, we reflect on one of our recent collaborations with the Kaiela Institute, the Indigenous Data Network (IDN) and Scholarly Services to support Indigenous governance of Indigenous Data.

Meet our resident geographer, YouTube star and now Research Data Specialist, Jonathan Garber, who is passionate about knowledge sharing, travel, and helping to solve data and code crimes to address global challenges.

Whether it’s decoding questions about the universe, ancient Arabic texts or monolithic ‘Jars’ in present-day Laos, Robert Turnbull has us covered. Discover his journey from Australia to the Middle East and back again to pursue his life passion in uncovering questions of the past.

In August, we co-facilitated Defining the Third Space with the Sydney Informatics Hub team: an online event that aimed to explore our data-intensive research support space with the community nationally and abroad.

Meet Gus, Lingyu, Lexie, Sophia and Hai Ho, Master of Data Science and Information Technology students who joined the MDAP team in mid-2020, shortly after we all started to settle into remote working life.

Meet Noel, our in-house bioinformatics and genetics specialist with a knack for tackling complex computational challenges in health and biological sciences and enjoying backyard travel in lieu of European getaways for now.

To celebrate our first year at MDAP: a showcase of some of our successful collaborations with researchers across the Faculties, and our ideas on the future of data-intensive research.

Meet Aleks, our resident archaeologist who brings a passion for uncovering history to help shape the future of research data stewardship at the University and beyond. Here we learn about Aleks' journey to, in, and around her new MDAP 'digs'.

Recently we co-organised a virtual event with Sydney Informatics Hub (SIH) titled Third Space: The Depth, the first of hopefully many to explore the data-intensive research support space in different institutions. Here we share presentations from this event and exciting next steps.

While we have been self-isolating, the innovative Melbourne Connect precinct has been taking form. At its heart: a major new digital artwork that will live and grow with the building, its occupants, and its environment over time.

Meet Zaher, one of our talented research data specialists with a passion for turning creative software skills towards boundary-pushing projects at the intersection of art, science, and technology that can benefit humans and animals alike.

Recently, Dr Andrew Siebel jumped on board as our Platform Manager, helping the team to foster inclusiveness, collaboration, technical innovation, and good spirit from the get-go. Here we learn about his pathway in human and animal biology and a life-long passion for diversity.

Recently, MDAP kicked off its internship program with four Master of Data Science students jumping onto real-world research problems with our research data specialist and data steward team. Interns Maria, Rohit, Pratibha and Saket slotted seamlessly into the team...

"I don’t think there are any wicked problems on my horizon that can't be fixed." Celebrating #IWD2020 with a Q&A with one of our research data stewards, Priyanka Pillai.

RDA Plenary and C3DIS adapt for online viewing! We thank organisers for their work to enable us to contribute to the new program, and look forward to sharing more video recordings of our presentations here as they become available in 2020.

Introducing Mar, one of our talented research data specialists with a serious knack for problem solving in mathematics, neuroscience, public health, and any data-intensive area!