CIM News

Carla Washbourne, Reader at CIM, has been re-appointed to chair the 2025-27 Steering Committee of UN-Habitat's Global Urban Observatory Network (GUO-Net).

Many countries are developing their first national digital health strategies––an exciting opportunity to leap towards modernizing healthcare, leveraging digital tools and the power of artificial intelligence for all. But: are officials thinking about how gender inequalities and unmet needs of other diverse groups might undermine digital access and inclusion?

We plan a series of online conversations with diverse voices– to think through the specific challenges and needs of diverse regions, and to spark a multidisciplinary dialogue on the integration of Gender, Equity, Rights, and Inclusion into the governance of digital health and AI for health. We plan three episodes, with the inaugural session focusing on the African region, where 38 of 47 Member States have now established national digital health strategies.

Strengthening Gender, Equity and Rights in National Digital Health Strategies in Africa

Date: Thursday, 6 November 2025

Time: 14:00 – 15:30 GMT (15:00 CET / 16:00 EAT)

Platform: Online (Link provided upon registration)

Registration: https://forms.office.com/e/f4nCEPGeBc

Or e-mail dhrp@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window to sign up. More information is on the Digital Health and Rights Project website here.

Carla Washbourne (Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies) and collaborators from University College London and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have published a new article in Data & Policy: "Behavioural perspectives on personal health data sharing and app design: an international survey study".

👉 Read more on the Cambridge Core blog: https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2025/10/02/apps-are-making-personalised-health-advice-possible-but-what-do-people-think-about-their-privacy-risks/ Link opens in a new window
📑 Related research article in Data & Policy: https://doi.org/10.1017/dap.2025.10032 Link opens in a new window
🔓 Code and data open on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/16637368Link opens in a new window

CIM and The Centre for Global Health Law would like to invite you to join them for a talk by Professor Anuj Kapilashrami on Wednesday, 5 November 2025, at 3.00 – 5.00 PM in Room S0.13, Social Sciences Building.

The Law, Technology, and Development Learning Circle brings together staff and students across the University of Warwick who are interested in the regulatory, governance, human rights, and political economy challenges of technology in/and on society. The group is coordinated by the Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE), Warwick Law School and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) with the aim to create a space for sharing and discussing research and policy developments.

Through reading groups, events, and policy conversations the group aims to develop cross faculty collaborations that foreground Warwick’s law in context, and interdisciplinary research culture.

For more information on the group, please contact: Dr Siddharth De Souza (Siddharth.De-Souza@warwick.ac.uk) or Dr Serena Natile (Serena.Natile@warwick.ac.uk).

For logistical information about the events, please contact globe@warwick.ac.uk

Carlos Cámara-Menoyo, Fangzhou Zhang (Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies) and Nathaniel Tkacz (Goldsmiths, University of London), have coauthored a new article "Eventful migration: Rethinking social media migration with help from Elon Musk’s sink".

Based on an extensive literature review on social media migration, and empirical data drawing on a survey of Mastodon users after the Twitter's acquisition by Elon Musk in 2022, and social media analysis, the authors propose a new theory of eventful migration. This eventful migration theory widens the conceptual scope for how to approach SocialMedia Migration in ways that more directly tie such movements to specific questions of power, agency and events that ripple through digital cultures. They do so by shifting from pull-push factors to eventfulness, which they divide into five components: (1) X factor; (2) critical voice; (3) collective platform consciousness; (4) migration; and (5) terrain transformation.

The Governor of Santiago, Claudio Orrego, has launched the result of a year-long study by LSE Cities to improve urban policy design and delivery of Chile’s leading metropolitan region. CIM's Carla Washbourne contributed to this study as an international urban expert in the LSE Santiago Urban Age Task Force. Read more here: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7354463971808026626/Link opens in a new window