Research
CIM's mission is to conduct world-class research by pioneering, testing and promoting
interdisciplinary methods and approaches.
Research Priorities
The Future of Knowledge and Intelligence Infrastructures
… including, among others, fields such as AI, computing, data analytics, interfaces, cybersecurity, reproducibility, complexity, infrastructures, platforms, algorithms
Democratising Information and Participation
… including, among others, fields such as digital platform infrastructures and the app economy, cyber-security governance, digital health and human rights, social justice and the environment, participation in science and technology, AI and inclusive decision-making, dis- and misinformation in digital media and culture
Making Methods Matter
… including, among others, simulation and modelling, situational analytics, data visualisation, participatory action research, software development, design, creative and interpretive methods; ethnography.
Research Projects
Digital Health and Rights
Future of Human Rights in the Digital Age
Scaling Trust
An Anthropology of Cyber Security
Smartification of the Earth: Social Designs for Planetary Observation
From the navigation apps on our phones to the climate data that informs national policies and helps monitor protected species, our world is increasingly shaped by the eyes watching us from above. Environmental monitoring satellites are at the heart of what is becoming a ‘Smart Earth’: a planet observed, managed and experienced through smart technologies. But as these technologies create new forms of distance and proximity, how do they transform our capacities to understand, become aware of, engage with and intervene in the environments in which we live?
Mapping and evaluating dRTP’s contributions to computing skills pedagogies in HE
This project maps and analyses the provision of digital research competencies (DRP) across higher education institutions, producing a publicly accessible repository to inform decision-making around teaching and curriculum design in a rapidly evolving landscape shaped by AI adoption.
Human-centred AI for Disease Modelling and Policy
Informing decision-making around plans for the elimination of African sleeping sickness with data, visualisation and AI
Can Digital Goods be Neutral?
Evaluating OpenStreetMap’s equity through participatory data visualisation.
Research Initiatives
CIM promotes or is involved in the following initiatives:
Warwick Methods Hub
A catalyst for methods-driven, impact-focused, cross-sector interdisciplinary collaborations
Centre for Digital Inquiry
The CDI brings together researchers across humanities, social sciences and sciences to think with and through our digital condition.
Research Clusters
The clusters provide a space for staff to build smaller active and vibrant research communities within the department based on staff research interests. CIM's research clusters are also run with researchers from the Department of Sociology.
The clusters engage in disciplinary as well as interdisciplinary activities. Each cluster organises research activities based on their priorities for that year.Just Eco-Geo-Political Futures
Scholars in the Just Eco-Geo-Political Futures Cluster explore a diversity of issues such as political cultures, authority & sovereignty; colonial ecologies, extractivism, environmental pollution and conflict; race, surveillance, human rights and citizenship in the digital age; more-than-human relations; religion and nationalism.
Technology, Economy and Society
This cluster brings together critical, empirical and creative research on contemporary transformations of economy, science, and society, with a special focus on automation, data technologies and AI.