Damla Çay – Uncomfortable Dining with Data Tableware
Damla Çay from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest visited DIVERSE-CDT this week. On 16 June, Damla presented her intriguing ‘Balaton Borders‘ work that translates ecological data into ceramic tableware, representing human impact on the landscape. The pieces are used in performative dining contexts to turn shared meals into multisensory encounters where food and data […]
“You, Me and the Vis PhD” presented at EuroVIS 2026
Jason Dykes and Cagatay Turkay coordinated an innovative event on PhD education at EuroVIS – the Eurographics Conference on Visualization. You, Me & the VIS PhD was Part workshop, part panel, part stand-up, part therapy session it was intended to bring together those in the visualization community who are studying PhDs and who have studied PhDs […]
Prof Jo Wood’s election analysis is front-page news
Jo Wood, Professor of Visual Analytics at City St George’s and one of Diverse CDT’s Co-Investigators, has analysed the voting patterns across London in the recent council elections. He revealed a bias, based on where candidates are located on the ballot paper – with some parties showing consistently more name bias than others. Voters could […]
Diverse CDT holds its first Supervisor Orientation Workshop
On 30 April, City St Georges colleagues learned about Diverse CDT’s innovative approach to PhDs. This included an explanation of the PhD by component approach, as well as an interactive session on data visualization. The content covered included – How City St George’s staff could benefit from being a Diverse CDT supervisor The role of […]
Diverse CDT Ambleside Residential
The Diverse CDT students and management team are spending the week on a residential in the Lake District. We are tapping firmly into the Diverse CDT core values of being “creative”, “collective” and “human” with a good dose of “playful” for good measure. Monday was a staff awayday and concentrated on the vision for Diverse […]
Empowering Women’s Stories: A Participatory Data Physicalisation Experience Session
11:00 – 12:00 GMT, Friday 13 March Ada Lovelace Room (A309), College Building, City St George’s, 280 St John Street, EC1V 4PB Diverse CDT students Ana, Sian, Tobi and Katie will be running a participatory data physicalisation (PDP) activity as part of ACM-W’s (Association for Computing Machinery’s Council on Women in Computing) International Women’s Day […]
Prof. Till Nagel visits Diverse CDT to meet the students
Last Thursday, Professor Till Nagel of Technische Hochschule Mannheim visited City St George’s and was able to meet and talk to the students of Diverse CDT. Till is a member of Diverse CDT’s Independent Advisory Board (IAB) so it was a terrific opportunity for him to get a first-hand view of the incredible talent we […]
Diverse CDT Present Innovations at EPSRC Directors meeting
Diverse CDT were invited to reveal key aspects of its innovative approach at the EPSRC’s annual meeting of CDT Directors yesterday. Principle Investigator, Stephanie Wilson, and Centre Manager, Nicola Kirkby, shared their reflections on innovations in Diverse CDT with Centre Directors from across the UK at the EPSRC’s CDT Directors Meeting in Birmingham. One of […]
Upcoming Event: “What is Data Vis?”
Thursday 5th March, 15:00 to 17:00 GMT The modern world is swimming in data, but our brains often need help to interpret what really lies within. Data visualization reveals hidden patterns and trends, turning the unintelligible into the comprehensible. It has enormous potential for wide impact, providing key insights that unlock solutions to diverse challenges from the local to the global. […]