News Archive
Making Stuff Up: A Talk by Professor Sha Xin Wei - 18th October
Friday 18 October, 11.30-1.00, B.0.06 Social Sciences
All welcome
Dr Emma Uprichard to lead new Quantitative Methods initiative at Warwick
Emma Uprichard is to lead a new quantitative research methods initiative at Warwick, Q-Step, which promises to overhaul the teaching of quantitative methods in the social sciences. Read the full story from Warwick Insite:
CIM Director awarded ESRC Professorial Fellowship
Congratulations to CIM Director Celia Lury, on securing an ESRC Professorial Fellowship
CIM podcast with Philip Mirowski
After the one-day conference 'Where Do Neoliberals Go After The Market', CIM's Will Davies and Nate Tkacz sat down with Professor Philip Mirowski to talk more about some of the main themes of the conference. Mirowski talks more about his recent research, including the developments that led to his new book Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste. The podcast also includes discussions of the reemergence of openness; the position of Popper within the Mont Pelerin Society; Wikipedia and Facebook; Neo-positivism and Big Data; and the limits of Social Studies of Finance in relation to Neoliberal political strategy.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/news/cim_podcast_with_philip_mirowski.mp3
In the data: interdisciplinary modes of machine learning - Adrian MacKenzie seminar, 10th June
Dr Adrian MacKenzie, Lancaster University, will give a paper at the fortnightly CIM seminar. 4pm, Cowling Room.