News and events
- Blog: Virtual reality requires body and consciousness 24 April 2024 Visitor to the Centre, Priscila Gonsales, writes on her experiences of VR environments that go beyond the visual and discusses how these can be used to further research and increase accessibility.
- Blog: Exploring river futures 27 March 2024 Lisa May Thomas and Laurène Cheilan recount a trip to the River Avon as part of our emerging river futures project.
- Blog: Speculative fiction for researching the future 22 February 2024 In our latest blog Ash Watson (University of New South Wales) explores speculative fiction as a tool for researching futures.
- Blog: Exploring the sociodigital dimensions of automated decision-making 1 February 2024 Francesco Amato, a visitor to CenSoF, discusses how sociodigital research methods can be employed to understand biases inherent in AI-powered automated decision making tools.
- Blog: The benefits of joining a reading group 18 January 2024 Recent visitor to CenSoF, Aline Stehrenberger, reflects on her experience of taking part reading groups.
- Blog: Participatory Futuring: Why futures matter in times of uncertainty 29 November 2023 Professor Helen Manchester discusses ideas raised during a conference presentation focussing on why futures and futuring matters to communities.
- Blog: Thinking Futures - Sociodigital Futures in the making 23 November 2023 In November 2023 we had the pleasure of holding a public event discussing and demonstrating some of the emerging ideas and tech associated with sociodigital futures.
- Blog: Caring in/with intangible environments 9 November 2023 This blog article reflects upon a VR workshop delivered at the Situated Caring Ecologies 2023 conference aimed at exploring the intangible environments we all inhabit, of air and water.
- Funded studentship - call for proposals (closing date: 3 December 2023) 2 November 2023 We are delighted to announce a +3 (three year) ESRC funded PhD studentship - Researching sociodigital life: Exploring the interplay of social and technical practices.
- Assistant Centre Project Manager (closing date: 5 November 2023) 17 October 2023 An exciting opportunity to join our flagship £10m interdisciplinary Centre.