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A new website has been set up for David Stark's €2.4M project 'Diversity and Performace: Networks of Cognition in Markets and Teams'.

Workshop, Friday December 2

Co-organised by:
The Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) - University of Warwick
Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) - University of Warwick
University of the Arts, London

Societal acceptance of driverless technology is a key objective of today’s innovation drive. Most current research in this area, however, relies on a limited set of methods, namely survey research, user studies and behaviourial analysis. Creative methods like design research and issue mapping can complement these existing approaches by bringing to light still hidden social implications of innovation in a participatory way. As driverless cars have the potential to transform society – and indeed the very relations between innovation, government and public life - it becomes crucial that we investigate these less obvious, latent social implications. To enable public understanding and facilitate societal engagement with driverless futures, we need creative methods.

This one-day event at the University of Warwick will bring to bring together a small group of social scientists, design researchers, engineers and policy makers in order to develop research agendas for public engagement and societal acceptance of driverless cars using creative methods. The workshop has been organised by Dr. Noortje Marres (CIM), Dr. Rebecca Cain (WMG) and Dr. Lucy Kimbell (Univeristy of the Arts London) with Dr. Ana Gross (CIM) and Mr. Arun Ulahannan (WMG).

2 year Postdoctoral Fellow on David Stark's project.

Charlotte joined the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies in October 2016 as a postdoctoral research fellow. She is working with Professor David Stark and Professor Sheen Levine on a research project supported by the European Research Council. For this project, they will design experimental settings to study the link between ethnic diversity and performance.

Charlotte completed her PhD at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). During her PhD research, she studied how multiple, diverse stakeholders collaborate in innovation networks to create value. She used a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods to address the topic. She collected interview and survey data from one of the largest public-private partnerships in the life sciences. During the last year of her PhD, Charlotte went on a research exchange at the University of Texas at Dallas. Here she used experimental methods to study individual decision-making. To support her PhD research, Charlotte was awarded scholarships by the Research Foundation Flanders and Fulbright.

An important feature of her PhD research was to study how functional diversity influences performance in collaborations between different stakeholders. At the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Charlotte will examine a different type of diversity, i.e., ethnic diversity, and its effect on performance.

Diversity and Performance: Networks of Cognition in Markets and Teams
 

Playful research methods – Playfields workshop
This workshop explores the potential and practices of playful research through a practical intervention: a ‘playtest’ of a tool for playful fieldwork. Under the name Playfields, we are currently developing a prototype mobile app that facilitates play-based fieldwork and research for students. It puts into use emergent ideas around open, imaginative, performative and mobile methods. It also enrolls new digital technology and the playful potential of maps in a unique creative learning and research experience.

We invite staff and students with an interest in maps, games and creative approaches to methods to join us for this event. The workshop will consist of an introduction to playful research, an ideas-swap session and a playtest (which includes an outdoor activity). It will be a chance for participants to get acquainted with new creative methods and get inspiration for their own work.

Jana Wendler (Playfields designer)

Sybille Lammes (Playfields PI)

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/research/playfields

Monday 21^st November, 2-5pm. The Oculus, OC1.08.

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/its/servicessupport/av/theoculus

Light refreshments (and cake!) provided.

If you have any questions, please contact Sam Hind (CIM): s.hind@warwick.ac.uk

The Centre is advertising a one year full-time Teaching Fellow post from January 2017.

A one-day seminar will be held on the subject of N-of-1 in Social Science? This event is sponsored by the International Journal of Social Research Methodology seminar competition.

CIM is now accepting PhD applications for the 2017/18​ calendar year. A number of scholarships are available across the sciences, social sciences and humanities. In particular, CIM applicants might find the following scholarships relevant:

• Economic and Social Research Council Doctoral Training Partnerships (social science)

• CADRE Scholarships (humanities)
• Centres for Doctoral Training in the Sciences (science)
• Chancellor's International Awards

• Commonwealth Scholarships for Developing Countries

Please get in touch with our Director of Postgraduate Research if you would like to apply. A list of scholarships can be found on the Graduate School pages here.