SAF21 News
Online video streams for Charlotte Weber’s PhD defense
M.Sc. in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation Charlotte Teresa Weber will give her trial lecture and defend her thesis for her Philosophiae doctor (ph.d.) degree, in a public defense on Thursday [...]
New paper on machine learning and social network analysis out in Fish and Fisheries
Over the past decades, socio-environmental problems have multiplied. In response, policymakers and scientists have increasingly called for collaboration, arguing that answers to these problems will not be found within the [...]
Shaheen Syed successfully defended his PhD dissertation
On Wednesday the 20th of March 2019, Shaheen Syed successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled "Topic Discovery from Textual Data: Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for Knowledge Discovery in [...]
Simulation with values
Samaneh Heidari, one of the SAF21 ESRs, has got another paper accepted at Social Simulation Conference 2018. This year is the 14th Annual conference of the European Social Simulation Association [...]
Making RRI a reality?
Last week, 8-9 June 2018, our ESR Lia ní Aodha took part in a Social Lab organised as part of the NewHoRRizon-project, that is working to foster the integration of [...]
Charlotte Weber elected on SiN board
During the recent general annual meeting in Oslo, Charlotte Weber from SAF21 was elected board member of SiN – Stipendiatorganisasjon i Norge. SiN is the Association of Doctoral Organizations in [...]
Rannvá Danielsen publishes paper in Marine Policy
Our ESR Rannvá Danielsen has published the paper “Fisheries policy in the Faroe Islands: Managing for failure?” in Marine Policy. The paper explores fisheries policy in the Faroe Islands between [...]
Workshop on Uses of Machine Learning in Fisheries
Last week, 16-20 April 2018, our ESR Shaheen Syed co-organized and chaired the first workshop on uses of machine learning in fisheries and marine science hosted by ICES in Copenhagen. [...]
New SAF21 publication in Fish and Fisheries
Shaheen Syed (SAF21 ESR) published the paper "Narrow lenses for capturing the complexity of fisheries: A topic analysis of fisheries science from 1990 to 2016" in the #1 fisheries journal [...]
Eurodoc Conference 2018
Today the Eurodoc Conference kicks off in Tampere, Finland. It is organized by the European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers and hosted by the University of Tampere. [...]
Shaheen Syed published a paper at the IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2018)
Our early stage researcher Shaheen Syed published and presented his latest paper entitled "Selecting Priors for Latent Dirichlet Allocation" at the IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2018) held [...]
Charlotte Weber and Shaheen Syed publish a paper in Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture.
Our ESRs Charlotte Weber from UiT and Shaheen Syed from MMU/UU have published their paper entitled "Using Machine Learning to Uncover Latent Research Topics in Fishery Models" in the journal [...]
Abstract accepted for Eurodoc conference 2018
Some of our SAF21 members have joined EuroDoc and have been actively involved in the Working Group on Doctoral Training in order to contribute to and promote good practices of doctoral [...]
SAF21 in Climathon 2017
Galicia embraces the Climathon challenge 2017 The region will participate as an innovator in Climathon, a global 24-hour climate change hackathon which will take place simultaneously in major cities around [...]
Samaneh Heidari presenting an accepted paper at ESSA, Dublin, Ireland
Our SAF21 ESR Samaneh Heidari has got a paper accepted at the Social Simulation Conference 2017 (SSC). It is the 13th Annual Conference of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA) which [...]
SAF21 @ ICES ASC-17
Like every year, the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) organizes the Annual Science Conference, this year to be held in Fort Lauderdale in Florida this [...]
Lia ní Aodha got a Paper Accepted at ESSA, Dublin, Ireland
Our ESR Lia ní Aodha has got a paper accepted at the 13th Annual Conference of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA). ESSA is the main European scientific society to [...]
Modelling social science aspects of fisheries at the Social Simulation Conference 2017
For the third year in a row, in 2017 SAF21 is organizing a special track on modelling social science aspects of fisheries at the Social Simulation Conference (SSC). This is [...]
Shaheen Syed got a Paper Accepted at DSAA, Tokyo, Japan
Our ESR Shaheen Syed has got a paper accepted at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics. He will present his paper, entitled "Full-Text or Abstract? [...]
Highlights Training Camp 4
From 6 to 16 July 2017 all 10 Early Stage Researchers (ESR) visited UiT – The Arctic University of Norway for a two-week training camp (TC). This TC is [...]
SAF21 at Eurodoc Conference 2017
Our ESR Charlotte Weber is currently in Oslo, participating in the EuroDoc Conference on Open Science. On Thursday, she will present the SAF21 training network to the European delegates of [...]
SAF21 goes PechaKucha
Every year, the Arctic Frontiers conference is held in Tromsø to bring together science, policy and business to discuss current state, trends and future outlook for the Arctic from multiple [...]
Midterm evaluation in Reykjavík
The SAF21 network gathered for the official midterm evaluation in Reykjavík last week. The ESRs, seniors and partner organisations were joined by Project Officer Linda Curzola and Monitor Gercende [...]
Shaheen Syed presented at KDIR 2016, Porto
Today our ESR Shaheen Syed presented his paper "Bootstrapping a Semantic Lexicon on Verb Similarities" at the 8th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval, held in Porto, [...]
SAF21 gather for third network meeting in Utrecht
The whole SAF21 network is gathered for a meeting in Utrecht today, the 26th of October 2016. The ESRs and seniors have been joined by the project’s partner organisations and [...]
SAF21 attend marine science conference in Riga
Four members of the SAF21 team have been attending the Annual Science Conference hosted by the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas in Riga, Latvia (19-23 September 2016). [...]
SAF21 Researchers visit MSCA – Manchester
On 28-29 July 2016, Charlotte Weber, Luz Molina, Lia ní Aodha and Shaheen Syed attended the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) conference at EuroScience Forum 2016. The two-day satellite conference was [...]
SAF21 ESR meets the Galician fisheries sector
SAF21 will attend today and tomorrow the meeting of the Galician fisheries sector where representatives are gathering to discuss the future of Galician fisheries in the context of relative stability: [...]