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Applications open for DIVERSE CDT 2026/27 PhD Scholarships!

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 10:38:00 GMT

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Diversity in Data Visualization (Diverse CDT) is a pioneering, fully funded four-year PhD programme jointly delivered by City St George’s, University of London and the University of Warwick.

Applications for PhD studentships with Diverse CDT are now open for 2026 entry.

We have rolling deadlines across several months and the first deadline for submitting an application is 4pm, GMT on 30th January 2026.

Further details here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/apply-to-study/phd-programmes/diverse-cdt/

New Action Research paper explores participatory and action research within the institutional PhD

Wed, 06 May 2026 08:32:37 GMT

A new article by Raymond Hyma (Monash GPSC; Warwick PAIS) and Javier García Martínez (Warwick CIM; Monash School of Social Sciences) has been published in Action Research.

Titled “Still in the Thick of it: A Duoethnographic Account Navigating and Challenging the Institutional PhD Through Participatory and Action-Oriented Research”, the article reflects on what it means to pursue participatory and action-oriented research from within the institutional context of the PhD.

Using a duoethnographic approach, the authors write from the middle of their doctoral journeys rather than looking back retrospectively. The article explores the possibilities, tensions, compromises, and forms of support that emerge when participatory commitments encounter the structures of doctoral education; including ethics review, authorship conventions, supervisory relationships, institutional timelines, and the challenge of sustaining relational research practices within academic constraints.

In doing so, the paper contributes to wider conversations about how doctoral research might be reimagined as a space for collective learning, methodological experimentation, and institutional transformation.

Hyma, R., & García Martínez, J. (2026). Still in the thick of it: A duoethnographic account navigating and challenging the institutional PhD through participatory and action-oriented research. Action Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/14767503261443972.

Policy Brief: Strengthening the roles of African Science Granting Councils as boundary organisations for societal transformation

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:46:00 GMT

Science Granting Councils (SGCs) are pivotal boundary organisations in African research and innovation systems, mediating between government, academia and industry. This brief explores experiences of SGCs in 15 sub-Saharan African countries.

Information Territory and Data Terrains: an examination of the Anti-Locust Research Centre

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:43:00 GMT

New paper by Robert Fletcher (Department of History, University of Missouri) and Greg McInerny (CIM, University of Warwick).

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02637758251406487

New papers on interdisciplinary cyber security

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 10:08:00 GMT

CIM's Matt Spencer has published two new open access papers exploring interdisciplinarity in cyber security.

The embeddedness of security: Theorising quality uncertainty in markets for secure software

Critical interdisciplinary cybersecurity: Thinking through securing, thinking through fixing

The first, in the conference proceedings for the New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW), explores opportunities to bring a sociological framing to bear on security economics; the second, in Information, Communication and Society introduces a Special Issue focused on 'the fix' as a trope for interdisciplinary cyber security.

CIM event at Newspeak House: Lessons from everyday encounters with AI innovation

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:38:00 GMT

What do smart doorbells, delivery drones and data centres have in common?
How does AI show up in living environments like the street? Has the hyperscale of AI expansion exploded the connection between innovation governance and its publics?

Research talk by Prof Simone Stumpf, University of Glasgow - "Why we can’t have nice things – the important role of Responsible AI"

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 13:16:13 GMT

Join us for a research talk by Prof Simone Stumpf from University of Glasgow with the title "Why we can’t have nice things – the important role of Responsible AI" on Tuesday, January 13^th 2026, 4pm - 5:30pm at the Social Sciences Building, Room S0.13.

Here is a brief abstract of the talk:

Many AI technologies are now being integrated into everyday life. However, how can we ensure that AI is ‘responsible’? In this talk, I will review current efforts at developing responsible AI, focusing on transparency, fairness and auditing, and offer suggestions at how we can improve approaches in this area.

Diversity and Cyber Security Expertise - new policy report from CIM academics

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:31:00 GMT

Very pleased to announce the release of our report on cyber security expertise and diversity. You can read the web version here:

https://warwickcim.github.io/cyberexpertisediversity_survey/

This was a collaboration between Matt Spencer, Carlos Cámara-Menoyo and Timothy Monteath, with the support of the Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security.

We make the case for:
> more extensive data collection to ensure that the implications of professionalisation for diversity in cyber security are well understood,
> enhancing the breadth of the specialisms recognised by the Cyber Security Council to better represent fields such as human factors or security awareness,
> better interdisciplinary engagement with the CyBOK framework to ensure that social and cultural expertise are recognised, and,
> empirical analysis of cyber security problems to ensure that specialisms are aligned with practical needs.

Virtual CIM PG open day session - 2nd Dec

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 13:49:00 GMT

Data, Digital, Visualisation and AI in Society and Culture: Interdisciplinary courses at CIM

Find out about CIM’s four state-of-the-art digital and data-themed degrees 11am-12pm on Tuesday, 2nd December
MA in Digital and Culture
MSc in Big Data and Digital Futures
MASc in Data Visualisation
MASc in AI & Society

Academic staff and current students will be on hand to provide an overview of each course and answer any queries you may about the programmes, or life as a CIM student in general.

Please sign up at Postgraduate Virtual Open Week Booking Form - University of Warwick

AI innovation missing the mark for local communities, University of Warwick report warns

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:46:00 GMT

Communities across the UK feel that artificial intelligence (AI) is being built around them, not for them, says a major new report led by the University of Warwick and Careful Industries.