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Learn Computational Social Science in Beijing

6 March 2024

The University of Cambridge Psychometrics Centre is collaborating with the Faculty of Psychology at Beijing Normal University and Microsoft Research Asia to host the Beijing site for the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science. This intensive 2-week programme from 30 Jun – 12 Jul 2024 is themed “Artificial...

Cambridge Creative Writing Competition

3 November 2023

The Psychometrics Centre is pleased to announce the winners of the second Cambridge Creative Writing Competition. Each entra First Prize winner (£500): Jess Thomas from Cambridgeshire Second Prize winners (£100 each): Liam Etheridge Charlotte Crawley Rachel Ngai Nicholas Chan Tommy Higgins/Jeremy Wang/Rachel Lindsay (...

Measuring Employee Wellbeing

1 December 2022

Toolkit launched by Highsight Analytics and Psychometrics Centre While employee wellbeing has recently vaulted to the forefront of organisational thinking, many firms have yet to implement the measurement practices needed to maximise their wellbeing initiatives. A new “toolkit” launched today (1 December) by Highsight...

AI & Big Data in Education Conference 2021

21 December 2021

The 2021 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Education , "AI+Education: Together for Shared Prosperity", was held in Beijing on December 16-18 2021 . The conference, jointly organised by Beijing Normal University, The National Center for Educational Technology, China, China Education...

Modern Psychometrics Fourth Edition Available

7 January 2021

The long-anticipated fourth edition of Modern Psychometrics is now available from Routledge. Professor John Rust, Dr Michal Kosinski and Dr David Stillwell from the Psychometrics Centre have expanded on the seminal and highly popular third edition to include more detailed coverage of the most salient topics in...

Watch: International Conference on AI and Big Data in Education 2020

21 December 2020

The 2020 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Education was held in Beijing on December 11-12. The conference, jointly organised by The National Center for Educational Technology, China, Beijing Normal University, and iFlytek, was the fourth consecutive annual gathering of experts in...

Retirement of Professor John Rust

31 March 2019

Professor John Rust will today retire from his post as Director of the University of Cambridge Psychometrics Centre after nearly 30 years at the helm of one of the world’s leading research institutions for the study of psychological assessment. Throughout his career, John has been at the forefront of developments in both...

From rights to insights: new AMS features promote data portability

30 January 2019

ApplyMagicSauce.com updated to enable psychological predictions from user-submitted .zip folders containing social media data. No log in required.

Centre wins prestigious design and data visualisation awards

26 May 2017

Predictive World was an interactive data visualisation, developed by the Centre for Ubisoft in November 2016. It was built to promote the launch of the Watchdogs 2 video game, in which an innocent protagonist is arrested for a crime he is predicted to commit, by CTOS, a smart city enforcement system. Working with design...

Psychometrics Centre moves to Cambridge Judge Business School

5 April 2016

In March 2016 The Psychometrics Centre completed its move into the Cambridge Judge Business School. The discussion had been going on behind the scenes for over a year, inspired by the changes in psychological and educational assessment practices brought about by the migration of human assessment to the online environment...

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