KIND network update

Week beginning Mon 8th July 2024

Dear colleagues,

Welcome to our regular KIND network update. Full details of our events and training can be found on our Teams channel. We’re still working on a new minimum standards doc for data collection, and will hopefully lead to a draft at some point in the coming week. I’d also be grateful if you could spare one minute to contribute to a bit of anonymous information gathering about your role and qualifications.

Hope to see you at something soon

Brendan

Training

There’s no need to register for these drop-in training sessions. You should be able to follow the link on the day - although please note you’ll need to join the KIND Teams channel to follow the chat, and to access sample data files etc. You can see all the forthcoming sessions, and a menu of possible training sessions, on the new training micro-site.

Events

SCODAS meetings, our social sessions, and the community meetups are on summer hiatus, and will return in late August. Please get in touch if you have ideas for new sessions - you can see a schematic list of possible topics on the KIND resources page.

Book of the week

Lisa Feldman Barrett. 2018. How Emotions are Made. ISBN 9781509837526, Worldcat link. This week’s BotW suggestion comes from Anna Schneider (PHS). She writes:
‘The author discusses relatively new research that sees a strong interconnection between our interroception, our immune system, and emotions, showing how intertwined psychology and medicine are. She makes a strong case for the whole-system-approach, because isolated symptoms can easily be mislabelled by both practitioners and patients. The book also includes a critical perspective on the still prevalent methodology of studying emotions and mental illness.’
It’s an excellent book, and one that’s particularly refreshing in a field that’s dominated in the popular view by a series of works from the nineteenth century - the Bells, the Duchennes, and the Darwins especially.

Resource of the week

A brilliant archive of open and fascinating datasets via Data Is Plural. Highlights include:

• Fern phylogenetics
• UK film box office stats
• Global health workforce data
• A who’s who of historical China

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