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/

Today in the Sociological Review Magazine, you can find the annotated portfolio for the Shifting AI Controversies workshop, showcasing the most relevant and pivotal design choices during the Shape Shifter development. Download the Annotated PortfolioLink opens in a new window

PhD in Visualisation in Citizen Science -- Facilitating wider participation and community building in citizen science through visualisation

We are looking for a PhD candidate who will join us to conduct research in the topic of visualisation in/for citizen science and how visualisation could broaden participation and support community building in citizen science projects. The position is funded by the Leverhulme TRANSFORM Doctoral training programme based at the University of Warwick and the successful candidate will work with an interdisciplinary mix of supervisors interested in visualisation, participation and methodologies. Candidates will join the vibrant PhD cohort at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies and the Institute for Global Sustainable Development at the University of Warwick, UK.

The project will also involve a close collaboration with researchers form the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH) who work on biodiversity modelling in the UK. Together with this interdisciplinary team, there is potential for real-world impact and contribute to the global sustainable development goals of the TRANSFORM programme.

Further details of the project and expected profile can be found here:

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/igsd/transform/themes/2023topics/citizenscience/

This is a fully funded position within the TRANSFORM programme and application details can be found here:

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/igsd/transform/apply/guidance/

The deadline for applications is 11.59pm on 20 March 2023.

Get in touch with Cagatay Turkay at cagatay.turkay@warwick.ac.uk for questions. Please feel free to share with anyone who you think might be interested.

May was a particularly busy time at CIM with regular academic events, such as a Research Away Day or Grant Sprint. This year we also organised a Writing Retreat for Early Career Researchers (ECRs).

The retreat was a three-day log event where junior members of academic staff gathered to work simultaneously on their writing projects. On top of the packed agenda of writing sessions, the retreat was an opportunity to meet in person for the first time since Covid-19.

The group of ECRs at CIM includes Research and Teaching Fellows. The group was established to create a space for peer collaboration and interdisciplinary exchange, on top of daily research projects and teaching duties that ECRs are engaged within. The Writing Retreat was designed collaboratively, and the organisation was led by Dr Chiara Poletti and Dr Zofia Bednarowska-Michaiel, with a great support of professional staff at CIM. We implemented an open-ended form of collaboration for writing, peer-led discussion, and exchange so that the retreat can take place in an iterative way and in a collegial environment.

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CIM Early Career Researchers working on their writing projects. Author: Dr Daniele Pizio

Social (Airy) Distances is an experimental installation that explores the physical and affective consequences of social distancing imposed as a coping mechanism in pandemic times. The aerial ecosystem, which used to be considered “emptiness”, has been recently occupied by the COVID-19 virus, rules, fear, respect, wind, forms of speech and other elements that have created invisible walls that have limited our access to other human bodies. We have formed social bubbles, rehearsed social distance, and added contextual complexities (ventilation system, masks, direction of speech, etc) to calibrate “safety”. 1m, 1.5m, 2m… These dimensions have fluctuated over time and across jurisdictions, responding to scientific research findings and negotiations with workers’ unions, hospitality managers and a wide range of industries and public institutions. Through these dimensions, health, social and economic risk has been managed across the world. Which kinds of bodily and affective separations has it unravelled, and which kinds of reliefs and autonomy have they generated.

Social (Airy) Distances, designed by Calvillo and her team as C+ arquitectas, is a commission for Vulnerable Critters, an exhibition curated by Andrea Bagnato and Iván L. Munuera that looks critically at modernity’s obsession with preventing contamination. It has been produced with the support of the Participatory Research Fund, Research England.

27 May-18 September 2022

La Casa Encendida (https://www.lacasaencendida.es/en/exhibitions/vulnerable-critters-13607)

Mixing methods for the study of topical affairs - an Advanced Training Event convened by Noortje Marres

as part of Professor David Stark's collaborative ERC project “Diversity and Performance: Networks of Cognition in Markets and Teams”

Professor David Stark (CIM) and Professor Nick Chater (WBS) Event

A 20% FTE Research Assistant Post with Sybille Lammes on the ERC Proof of Concept Project: "Playfields". To find out more or apply.