Iain Emsley (Research Software Engineer)
Iain Emsley (Research Software Engineer)
My role as a Research Software Engineer is to support the use of technology in teaching and research at CIM. I also maintain some of our infrastructure and provide assistance for research projects. Some useful resources can be found on the CIM Academic Technology page.
I hold a PhD from the University of Sussex that uses Distant Sonification as a critical computational method in the sonic analysis for digital data. I am involved in research in apps, data donation, and the relationship between sound and computer science. My research interests include critical computation, sound / audio in digital culture and methods, infrastructure, and digital humanities.
Previously I was a Research Associate at the Oxford e-Research Centre and wrote software for a range of projects that ranged from Radio Astronomy to Digital Musicology / Humanities.
Teaching
I support and run labs in both Approaches to the Digital (IM902) and Digital Methods (IM904). I provide technical supervision for the dissertation (IM906) and currently support Digital Sociology (IM920).
Historical Projects
AI in the StreetLink opens in a new window
Current Software
Google Play ScraperLink opens in a new window (CIM)
Unheard CityLink opens in a new window
Zeehaven (in collaboration with King's College, London)
Warwick Research Archive Portal Profile: https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/view/author_id/376493.html
Conference / Workshop Papers
Emsley, I. 2025. Stable Ecologies?: Computational Audible Infrastructures in Generative AI Audio, Music and Online Cultures Research Network, Lisbon.
Dieter, M., Emsley, I., Zhang. F. 2024. The Evolution of Chinese Super Apps: A Comparative History of Alipay, Meituan and WeChat Using App Repositories, Association of Internet Researchers, Sheffield
Emsley, I. 2024. "Ecologies of Inaudible Machines and their Silences: Towards Sonic Thinking as a way of Socio-Ecological Knowing in the Unheard City" in The Infrastructures of Socio-Ecological Knowing in the City, King's College London
Emsley, I. 2023. "A Signalled Infrastructure: (Dis)Connections in the City", SyntheticCity 2023, Dublin City University, Ireland
Critical Infra Lab. 2023. "Building a relational infrastructure - the launch of the critical infrastructure labLink opens in a new window", Amsterdam
Emsley, I. 2023. " Data Walking in the Unheard City: Sampling Infrastructured Devices with Mobile Apps", Critical Infra Lab, Amsterdam
Workshops
Emsley, I and De Roure, D. 2024. Listen to the WebLink opens in a new window, ACM Web Science, Stuttgart.
Contact
Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies
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University of Warwick
Coventry
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Email: Iain dot Emsley at warwick dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0) 24 765 73455
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