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Love Data Week 2026 Events at UNCW

Planet Ocean Seminar Series: Reinventing Resilience: Where Do We Go From Here?

Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2026 | 6:30pm

Speaker: Dr. Jessica Whitehead, Director, Institute for Coastal Adaption and Resilience (ICAR), Old Dominion University 

Location: Center for Marine Science and Zoom (register here)

 

Sponsored by the Center for Marine Science

 

In this talk, Dr. Jessica Whitehead will explore the idea of transformative adaptation and discuss how pathways to implementing that future redefine resilience in ways that speak to the heart of our communities' challenges. Learn how we can move beyond traditional approaches, embracing innovative strategies that integrate economic, social, and environmental aspects to build a more robust defense against future adversities.

 

Research Collider: Material Culture

Date: Thursday, February 12, 2026 | 10:30-12:00

Speakers: Jamie Brummitt, Nicholas Hudson, Michael Turner, and Abigail Upshaw

Location: UNCW Library Discovery Hall 1072 – Visualization and Analysis Lab (VAL)

 

Co-sponsored by the College of Humanities, Social Sciences, & the Arts

 

Material culture research is an interdisciplinary field that studies the relationship between people and physical objects to understand human culture, history, and social practices. This session will showcase UNCW faculty and their research with an intention to connect, discover, and foster potential collaboration. You will learn how scholars are reading and drawing conclusions from this rich source of data.

 

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Research Collider: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Date: Thursday, February 12, 2026 | 2:00-3:30

Speakers: Beverley McGuire, Nadine Gibson, Beth Gazza, Dan Johnson, and Catherine Williams

Location: Zoom (register here) and UNCW Library Discovery Hall 2097 for virtual panel viewing

 

Co-sponsored by the Center for Teaching Excellence

 

Join us for a showcase of UNCW faculty who are advancing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) - a growing field that uses systematic, intentional inquiry to improve student learning. Scholars will share various approaches to study design, key findings, and implications for teaching and learning. This session offers practical insights for creating a secondary SoTL agenda, underscores the role of SoTL in teaching effectiveness, and invites you to join our UNCW SoTL community of scholars. 

 

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Data-Driven Decisions: Research in the Policy Arena

Date: Friday, February 13, 2026 | 10:30-12:00

Speakers: Sara Fletcher Daniels (moderator), Jenny Biddle, David Conley, and Ralph Mead

Location: UNCW Library Discovery Hall 1070 and Zoom (register here for webinar link)

 

Communicating impact is an integral part of the research process and is crucial for ensuring that research findings are understood, appreciated, and utilized by broad audiences. Effective research communication can help education and promote research value and maximize its potential to create positive change. This session provides expert insights on effective strategies for engaging policymakers and leveraging research-based evidence to inform policy decisions.

 

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What is Love Data Week?

For its fifth year, UNCW Library and Research & Innovation will be co-presenting Love Data Week (February 9-13, 2026), an international celebration of data. A series of events will be hosted throughout the week to build campus research community by highlighting various aspects of data. This year's theme is "Where's the Data?" - a way to get people to think about all the stages of data's journeys.