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CIC PhD Students

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In September we appointed three PhD students who have become an integral part of the team, working alongside our staff to make an impact in the university and tackle data-driven problems. All their work have a strong transdisciplinary flavour, investigating the interplay between algorithms, ethics, user experience, participatory design and educational theory and practice. Read below to find about their work.   Antonette Shibani Shibani is a PhD student in Learning Analytics at the Connect...
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Envisioning C21 Learning Analytics: LASI-Asia Keynote

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CIC's Simon Buckingham Shum keynoted at the inaugural Asian Learning Analytics Summer Institute this week. LASI-Asia is one node in the international LASI network organised by the Society for Learning Analytics Research. The title of his invited talk was Envisioning Learning Analytics for 21st Century Competencies. This is an overview of the edited volume on the same theme, published in the Journal of Learning Analytics. If this topic is of interest, see also Learning Analytics vs. Cognitive ...
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National Researcher Level 1 Award

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Congratulations to CIC research fellow, Roberto Martinez-Maldonado who has been awarded a National Researcher Level 1 by the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT), Mexico for the period 2017-2019. This includes the admission to the National Research System (SNI) which facilitates access to further sources of funding and will allow Roberto to be more involved in a number of initiatives. Becoming a member of the SNI is a very competitive endeavour. It requires the researcher to p...
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The Heretics Guide to Management: The Art of Harnessing Ambiguity.

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UTS Senior Lecturer in Data Science, Kailash Awati has jointly released his second “Heretics Guide” management book called The Heretics Guide to Management: The Art of Harnessing Ambiguity. Which looks at how ambiguity affects human behaviour and how managers can harness it in positive ways. Management techniques such as strategic planning, project management or operational budgeting, attempt to reduce ambiguity and provide clarity, however they often end up missing the point. So why do mana...
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MDSI Students take out ALL Awards in the latest Hackathon Challenge

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Students studying the UTS Master of Data Science and Innovation (MDSI) degree have once again achieved amazing success with their latest hackathon challenge at Unearthed Sydney over the weekend. Over 30 MDSI students in 8 different teams competed against other universities and professional companies and after five challenges took out ALL three cash awards! This included first prize, tied second, as well as the Young Innovators Award. The team who were awarded first prize of $2000 as well as cre...
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Kailash Awati

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CIC continues to grow as we welcome our new Senior Lecturer Data Science - Kailash Awati. Kailash is co-founder of Sensanalytics, a consultancy specialising in sensemaking and analytics. Prior to this, he worked for a pharmaceutical multinational where he set up a global IT service center specialising in business intelligence and analytics. Over the last several years, he has worked as a data and analytics geek; facilitator and sensemaker; data / information architect; project manager and engi...
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Bridget Payne

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For the month of June, CIC's admin assistant, Bridget travelled to Bangalore, India to take part in a volunteering internship program with 40K Globe. 40K Globe carries out programs in rural India where Australian university students work on hands-on programs, creating entrepreneurial solutions to issues such as access to education, waste and employment for women. UTS has partnered with 40K Globe to provide grants to UTS students wishing to participate in the 40K Globe program. As part of her pr...
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Ecopolicy – a simulation game for students

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CIC have recently submitted a grant application for the use of a simulation game (called Ecopolicy®) in sustainability and management subjects in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building (DAB). This project is aimed at developing the pedagogical strategies and exploring the learning analytics requirements using Ecopolicy® to teach about sustainability, complexity and systems thinking as an active learning experience. It will help to develop ‘blended’ learning approaches in undergraduate ...
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Key Technology Partner Visiting Fellowship Program

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Key Technology Partner (KTP) Visiting Fellowship Program awarded one of CIC’s research fellows, Roberto Martinez-Maldonado with a grant to fund, Mykola Pechenizkiy a Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology to travel to UTS and CIC in February 2017. Mykola is one of the leading researchers in Educational Data Mining (President of the International EDM Society).This funding seeks to develop long-term collaboration with UTS and CIC and Eindhoven University and to explore opportunities for ...
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Academic Writing Analytics (AWA)

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Ongoing work on the Academic Writing Analytics (AWA) tool is being conducted. Ethics clearance has been granted for researchers to collaborate with academics to analyse historic essays, resulting in a corpus of (cleaned and anonymized) essays from science, law, and accounting subjects. This provides a baseline for intervention work in law and accounting (VCLT supported) to investigate (a) the effectiveness of AWA in supporting students understanding of the assessment criteria through a benchma...
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