Interview: PhD students reflect on their time in the OIT
...Defra are excited to use the work I did for them both internally and with other departments such as BEIS or HMT, so I feel like I have contributed to...
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Working with the Open Innovation Team
...Colleagues from across Whitehall, and sometimes further afield, approach us requesting support on projects where they think academic insight might be useful. We’ll do some scoping and, if we decide...
Our top five priorities for the next three years
...and refine the tools we use to weave academic insight into policy discussions (e.g. through various kinds of events, slide packs, think pieces and literature reviews). Raising our profile: during...
The promise and perils of online targeting
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David Beer, Posted on:
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Digital, Examples & Findings, Innovation, Open Innovation Team, Projects, Research
...and use of data produced as a by-product of our interactions with media environments, means we are analysed by advertisers and organisations to a far greater extent than ever before....
Algorithms: The good, the bad, and the biased
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Michael Rovatsos, Posted on:
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Digital, Examples & Findings, Projects, Research
...biased outcomes and recommendations, either because the data used to train them may reflect historical biases, or because they may detect patterns that we would consider discriminatory, for example by...
Introducing the Open Innovation Team
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Christopher Webber, Posted on:
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Experiences, Open Innovation Team, Reflections/Thought pieces
...our use of PhD students. We discovered last year that many PhD students have funding to work with us on placements of 3 to 6 months, so we’ve been inviting...
How we work
As regular readers will know, the Open Innovation Team works with academics and other experts to help generate analysis and ideas for policy. We recently refreshed the slides we use...
Ten reasons PhD students are a good fit for the Open Innovation Team
...with the pace and complexity of the policy making process. (3) Independent working: we’re used to working with minimum supervision and we have a make-it-work attitude. In the OIT, we...