Mini seminar series co-organised by CIM researcher Dr Neda Genova will take place in London on May 9th & 16th (Queen Mary UoL) and May 23rd (UCL)

This year Professor Noortje MarresLink opens in a new window (Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick) will give the Annual Lecture of the National Centre for Research Methods.
 
She will discuss the new challenges that AI poses to the sciences of society.

The event takes place on Tuesday, 21 May 2024 at The Royal Society in London. It will also be streamed online.
The event begins at 18:00, with a reception and light refreshments, giving guests the chance to network with researchers from other disciplines and sectors.

More info about her talk can be found hereLink opens in a new window.

Molly Pugh-Jones (STOPAIDS) and Meg Davis (Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick)

Since June 2023, CIM hosts the Digital Health and Rights Project ConsortiumLink opens in a new window, an international alliance of social scientists, human rights lawyers, health advocates, and networks of people living with HIV who collaborate to conduct participatory action research in low- and middle-income countries, and advocate for a human rights-based approach to governance of digital technologies and artificial intelligence (AI). Professor Meg DavisLink opens in a new window (CIM) is principal investigator and project lead for the consortium. This year is a critical moment for global digital governance. Last week, the co-chairs of the Global Digital Compact shared an initial draft. Molly Pugh-JonesLink opens in a new window, Advocacy Manager at STOPAIDS coordinating advocacy for the consortium, reflects on key priorities for the Compact.

The ‘Scaling Trust’ project is a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship examining trust in the cyber security profession. As the initial period of funding comes to an end, CIM academics Matt Spencer and Daniele Pizio have published two policy papers that engage with current challenges in cyber security.

‘Assurance by Principle: Preparing for the next generation of technology assurance’ is a report by Matt Spencer, published through the Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security (RISCS). It provides a series of recommendations for moving technology assurance policy away from prescriptive standards, and towards the new ‘goal-based’ approach that has become influential in cyber policy.

‘Deperimeterising Zero Trust: Challenging metaphors in information security’ is a policy brief by Matt Spencer and Daniele Pizio, part of the University of Warwick’s Policy Briefing Series. It examines current challenges with the trend towards a ‘Zero Trust’ paradigm for information security, and draws conclusions aimed at industry, government and academia.

Wellcome is introducing “positive action” across its funding competitions to tackle underrepresentation in UK academic research. From spring 2024, the Charity may provide additional places on shortlists for researchers who are disabled, or who “identify as being from a Black, Bangladeshi or Pakistani heritage background”

We are excited to say that, continuing a new phase of growth, we are now are seeking a part-time research software engineer, with expertise in AI, machine learning and/or cloud computing, to support the innovative teaching and research activities of the centre. The role includes research software development for interdisciplinary research, other research support and the provision of training to staff and postgraduate students.

See full job description and application here

This collaborative project will explore divergences between principles of responsible AI and the messy reality of AI as encountered in the street, in the form of automated vehicles and surveillance infrastructure. The aim is to ground understandings of AI in lived experiences.

Matt joins the RISCS community with a senior academic fellowship focused on interdisciplinarity in cyber security.

More details here: https://riscs.org.uk/research/riscs-fellows/

An article on “Quali-quanti visual methods and political bots: A cross-platform study of pro- & anti- bolsobots” has just been published in the special issue "Methods in Visual Politics and Protest" of the Journal of Digital Social Research, co-authored by Janna Joceli Omena, Thais Lobo, Giulia Tucci, Elias Bitencourt, Emillie de Keulenaar, Francisco W. Kerche, Jason Chao, Marius Liedtke, Mengying Li, Maria Luiza Paschoal, and Ilya Lavrov.

A new paper, titled “‘View from the window’: On time, politics and domestics during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic” has been published in Time & Society as part of a special issue on the political and transformative uses of time.