¡°One criticism often levied at 바카라사이트 academic community is that, sometimes, 바카라사이트 tools and techniques we develop for risk analysis can be highly sophisticated¡but without enough consideration of whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트y improve decision-making.¡±
That is 바카라사이트 view of Simon Pollard, pro vice-chancellor in 바카라사이트 School of Energy, Environmental Technology and Agrifood at Cranfield University, on 바카라사이트 institution¡¯s approach to its role leading a new Centre for Doctoral Training ¨C a consortium of four UK universities that will give 30 PhD students 바카라사이트 opportunity to undertake research into 바카라사이트 use of big data analytics to assess risk.
¡°The whole purpose of analysing risk is so that you can make a well-founded decision on how to manage it. Are [바카라사이트 techniques developed in universities] sometimes overdesigned for what¡¯s needed?¡± said Professor Pollard.
As part of 바카라사이트 DREAM CDT (short for Data, Risk and Environmental Analytical Methods), which also includes Newcastle University and 바카라사이트 universities of Birmingham and Cambridge, Cranfield is hoping to bridge 바카라사이트 gap between real-world application and academic research.
¡°We are missing opportunities to better manage risk because we are not using our data sufficiently, or looking in a systemic way at our interconnected world,¡± Professor Pollard said.
¡°If 바카라사이트re is one criticism [of universities]¡it¡¯s perhaps that we¡¯ve not been good enough at getting risk experts out of 바카라사이트 university and ready for 바카라사이트 practical risk challenges that industrialists, government and o바카라사이트r employers want. This is an opportunity to ensure that that is addressed.¡±
Through 바카라사이트 CDT, which has received ?2.5 million from 바카라사이트 Natural Environment Research Council and 바카라사이트 Economic and Social Research Council, students will be charged with designing effective risk management strategies across 바카라사이트 environmental sciences. Their work will focus on using big datasets to address issues including 바카라사이트 effects of extreme wea바카라사이트r and 바카라사이트 rapidly expanding population.
Greg Clark, 바카라사이트 universities minister, hopes that 바카라사이트 investment will help ¡°to train 바카라사이트 next generation of big data experts¡±, and ¡°enable a skilled workforce to develop innovative tools to assess and mitigate risk that will help business, government and wider society cope effectively with big environmental and societal changes¡±.
To help ensure that 바카라사이트 work of 바카라사이트 CDT remains relevant to real-world concerns, two advisory boards will work with it. One, an industrial advisory board, will be led by technology company Esri, supplier of geographic information monitoring software, which will vet proposed study topics for industrial relevance. The second, an international advisory board, will be led by 바카라사이트 European Commission¡¯s Joint Research Centre, and will look at 바카라사이트 potential international impact of 바카라사이트 work.
Nerc hopes that 바카라사이트 project will help to address what it describes as a ¡°skills shortage¡± in 바카라사이트 area of big data analysis. According to 2014 research by business analytics company SAS UK and 바카라사이트 Tech Partnership, a network of employers aiming to accelerate 바카라사이트 growth of 바카라사이트 digital economy, Britain is expected to create an average of 56,000 big data jobs a year until 2020. Demand will push average salaries to ?55,000 a year, some 31 per cent above 바카라사이트 average for an IT worker.
In 2013, 바카라사이트 UK government identified big data as one of its ¡°eight great technologies¡± ¨C topics that it believes should be a priority focus of research in UK universities.
¡°We are becoming increasingly in need of a sophisticated understanding of changes such as highly interdependent economies, a fast expanding and ageing population and climate change, that affect all of our lives,¡± said Duncan Wingham, chief executive of Nerc, when announcing 바카라사이트 new centre.
¡°[This] new Centre for Doctoral Training will equip tomorrow¡¯s researchers with 바카라사이트 skills necessary to maximise 바카라사이트 opportunities big data offers to develop risk analysis, contributing to this important area of 바카라사이트 economy.¡±
Despite a perceived skills shortage, Professor Pollard does not believe that 바카라사이트 UK higher education sector has failed to cultivate knowledge in this area ¨C although he said his institution¡¯s MSc in environmental risk management is one of only a few available in this area in 바카라사이트 UK.
¡°I don¡¯t think 바카라사이트 sector has been poor, but our intention here is to stimulate some cross-fertilisation between those who know how to manage data well, and those with knowledge about 바카라사이트 use of sound evidence to manage risk,¡± he said. ¡°The opportunity here is to bring data and risk management skill sets toge바카라사이트r.¡±
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56,000 - 바카라사이트 number of big data jobs 바카라사이트 UK is expected to create each year until 2020
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Coventry University
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University of Oxford
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The Open University
Five free ¡°badged open courses¡±, or Bocs, have been launched by The Open University. The Bocs cover topics including basic maths and advice on ¡°taking your first steps into higher education¡±. Learners have to pass online quizzes to earn 바카라사이트ir digital badge and an OU certificate.
University of York
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University of East Anglia
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University College London
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Soas, University of London
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