From November 9th-13th, researchers from the App Studies Initiative will be running a week-long research workshop on Covid-19 apps. The workshop is part of the ESRC-funded project 'COVID-19 App Store and Data Flow Ecologies', led by Dr Michael Dieter and hosted by the Centre for Digital Inquiry at the University of Warwick. The workshop will begin with a public presentation that documents the project to date, including key findings, before moving into project work. We will work in small teams on different but interrelated areas of inquiry. We would like to invite a small number of early-career and interested researchers to participate in the workshop. No formal training will be provided, but there will be ample opportunity to learn by doing. Our focus will be on Sequential Interface Analysis (Walkthroughs), Software Development Kits, and Network Connections. If you are interested in joining the workshop, please send a one-page CV and short expression of interest that details why you would like to take part (max. 300 words). Applications can be sent to n.tkacz@warwick.ac.uk.

The research team of ‘People Like You’: Contemporary Figures of Personalisation is pleased to invite you to the launch of Di Sherlock's Written Portraits. Di's poetry residency is part of our research. Di talked to people affected by and working with cancer in Maggie’s West London and Charing Cross Hospital about what mattered to them. Hosted by Sophie Day with Di Sherlock, and Kelly Gleason, the launch will introduce Written Portraits online.

The following poems will be read:'

White Rose' read by Flaminia Cinque

'Vital Conversation' read by Clive Llewellyn

'Everyday Heroines' read by Susan Aderin

'Rewilding the Self' from 'The Art Class' read by Lin Sagovsky

'The Three Musketeers' read by Chris Barnes.