Data is everyone's business
2022 promises to be exciting, because it’s all about our Data Strategy jumping off the page and into action
How we work
Adventures in Digital Ethnography
Three intrepid researchers deliver ECC’s first in-house digital ethnography. It’s been a daring adventure and a leap of faith for us to combine an online tool (Incling) with research skills, for a project about mental health support.
Getting back out there…doing research while masked up
This week our team visited a high school in Essex to talk to sixth formers about their experiences of Covid-19 in terms of the impact to their mental health, relationships, education and future opportunities. Updated guidance meant that all pupils were now expected to wear face masks in classrooms, so this went for us researchers too...
How can we better look after our own wellbeing as researchers?
Over the last year or so our team has carried out research around Covid-19, mental health, financial struggles, women’s safety and domestic abuse among other things. This has involved participants discussing past traumas and difficult periods they have experienced, which can leave us as researchers often dwelling on those conversations long after they have taken place...
From Tiny Feet to running ‘dineq’: Reflections on learning R when returning from maternity leave.
So, first you’re probably thinking, what is Dineq? Well let’s deal with that first. Dineq is a package in R that enables you to run Gini functions. Gini coefficients are traditionally used to look at inequality across income in populations, …
“Am I really a Philomath*?”
Elizabeth Wiley shares her experience of participating in the Data Science Accelerator Programme
Choose Your Own Adventure, ASC Edition
Our new demand and resource scenario planning tool is a similar idea to a 'Choose Your Own Adventure' for Adult Social Care!
How can we tackle unconscious bias?
When I heard that the government had pulled the plug on unconscious bias training, I remember thinking that it felt like a backwards step. But a review found limited evidence that it creates behaviour change, and could even lead to "unintended negative consequences.” So, what was going on there that meant not only was it not very effective, but could actually be making things worse?
A Bee, See
Our Data & Analytics team is an absolute rag-tag ensemble. The kind of motley crew usually seen in family films such as Mighty Ducks, Monsters University, Stand By Me, etc.
Goodbye bureaucracy
Any project in a local authority setting has a certain degree of bureaucracy. And that’s good, bureaucracy makes sure people are kept in the loop, makes sure services are fit for purpose, makes sure we are accountable and transparent. But bureaucracy can also make our workdays too long, frustrate us and distract us from our, and the organisation’s, motivation.