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June 29, 2021

Predicting a post-COVID-19 economic future – looking back at Café Scientifique June 2021

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Dr Festus Adedoyin shares his experience of presenting at a BU Café Scientifique event on 1 June 2021.

Café Scientifique presents such an interesting opportunity to discuss academic research with a diverse and extraordinary audience. With events currently taking place online, there were members of the public in the audience from several countries. This public engagement pushed the boundaries of my creativity in trying to be as clear as possible, particularly in ensuring that the public can interact with my research without much complexity.

I discussed the application of some machine learning tools (ARIMA, Prophet model, Long Short-Term Memory and Recurrent Neural Network) to predicting the macroeconomic trend for the UK and what the post-pandemic future looks like. This is because, amidst the noise and confusion about the future, new and advanced scientific tools let us have a glimpse of the future, as well as the potentials for swift economic recovery. Overall, I asked the question: when compared with another similar economy like the US, is there something the UK can do differently?

 

 

I agreed to participate in this public engagement, for my personal development, and because I love to receive feedback, new directions and insights on the why what and how of my research. While there are several economic reports from the news and government agencies, it is important to provide some evidence-based discussions around how the happenings in the economy can affect everyone at an individual level.

Before the event, I practised discussing my research with my wife who is a care worker and has no clue what machine learning algorithms mean. That helped me discover several ways to represent the ideas during the talk.

The event went well. There was a great turnout and lots of fantastic questions at the end. I think as a researcher we may get caught up in the ‘how’ of our research and not go deep in dissemination and public engagement. Therefore, constantly thinking and rethinking about the implications and interpretation of research findings and what it means for everyone should be a skill we all develop as researchers.

 

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