CenSoF briefing papers

2023

• Williamson B, Valladares-Celis C, Sriprakash, A, Pykett, J, Facer, K (June 2023) Education’s sociodigital promises: A briefing paper and research agenda
• Van Isacker T, Anderson B, Milivojevic S (July 2023) Mapping Channel mobility futures

Journal articles and related

2023

• Evans D, Gregson N. (2023) Money, Debt and Finance: Reclaiming the Conditions of Possibility in Consumption Research. Sociology 10.1177/00380385231156339
• Facer, K. (2023) Possibility and the Temporal Imagination. Journal of Social and Cultural Possibilities
• Halford, S. & Southerton, D. (Eds) 2023. Sociologies of the Future and the Future of Sociology. Sociology (special edition) 57 (2)
• Halford, S. & Southerton, D. (2023) What Future for the Sociology of Futures? Visions, Concepts and Methods. Sociology 57 (2)
• Parker M, Brown J, Jusu-Sheriff H, Manley J. (2023) Social infrastructure platforms: the case of Asking Bristol. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
  

2022

• Mainsah H, Slade E, Slettemeås D, Southerton D, Storm-Mathisen A. (2022) Methodological innovations and challenges of research on digitally connected homes: an introduction. Digital Creativity. (3) 10.1080/14626268.2022.2138453
• Jones, Verity; Millett, Ruth; Pykett, J. (2022) Sustainable threads: Using immersive narratives to teach about the impacts of fast fashion. Teaching Geography, 47 (2). 79-82 www.proquest.com/openview/6c9b83a0f959d2bf9c756e224ab5cfed/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=28686
• Sriprakash, A. (2022) Reparations: theorising just futures of education. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, (pp. 1-14) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01596306.2022.2144141
• Williamson B, Komljenovic J. (2022) Investing in imagined digital futures: the techno-financial ‘futuring’ of edtech investors in higher education. Critical Studies in Education 10.1080/17508487.2022.2081587

Books and book chapters

2023

• Facer K. (2023) ‘Negation, imagination and organisation’. Haste - The slow politics of climate urgency (pp. 63-72). UCL Press
  
• Southerton D, Warde A. (2023) Towards Sustainable Consumption: Reflections on the Concepts of Social Loading, Excess and Idle Capacity. In Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life (pp. 339-361). Springer International Publishing https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-11069-6

2022

• McQuillan D. (2022) Resisting AI - An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence. https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai
• Davies, H, Eynon, R, Komljenovic, J, Williamson, B. (2022) Investigating the financial power brokers behind EdTech. In Sonia Livingstone, Kruka Pothong. Education Data Futures: Critical Regulatory and Practical Reflections. Digital Futures Commission: 5Rights Foundation https://educationdatafutures.digitalfuturescommission.org.uk/essays/competing-interests-in-education-data/investigation-financial-power-brokers-edtech

Reports 

2022

• Facer, K. (2022) The University and the Social Imagination. The Centre for Global Higher Education, Department of Education, University of Oxford. working-paper-82.pdf (researchcghe.org)
• Altbach, P, Álvarez, F, Amoroso, J, Audretsch, D, Audy, J, Azman... Facer, K. (2022) Global University Network for Innovation Higher Education in the World Report, Special Issue: Higher Education to 2050. Global University Network for Innovation

Conference proceedings

2023

• Czech, E, Soubutts, E, Eardley, R , O’Kane, A. (2023) Independence for Whom? Critical Discourse Analysis of the Onboarding of a Home Health Monitoring System for Older Adult Care. ACM CHI https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3580733
• Deighan, M,  Ayobi, A, O’Kane, A. (2023) Social Virtual Reality as a Mental Health Tool: How People Use VRChat to Support Social Connectedness and Wellbeing. ACM CHI https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3581103
• Soubutts, E, Czech, E, Ayobi, A, Eardley, R, Cater, K and O’Kane, A. (2023) The Shifting Sands of Labour: Changes in Shared Care Work with a Smart Home Health System. ACM CHI https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3581546

Blog articles

The CenSoF team and our collaborators have written a number of blog articles related to our interdisciplinary work. These include:

• Imagining our Immersive Digital Futures by Mairi Therese Deighan (Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality TAP)
  
• Repurposing ‘trove’: space, times and bodies by Lisa May Thomas (Caring Domain)
• Exploring the Sociodigital Dimensions of Automated Decision-Making by Amato Francesco, Federico II University of Naples, Italy
• Exploring sociodigital futures by Susan Halford and Dale Southerton

You can read all our blog articles here: CenSoF blog.

In addition, you may also interested to read the following:

• Chris Preist and Dale Southerton. Digital home working and its sustainability potential: human immobility and the mobilities of stuff, Migration Mobilities Bristol (May 2022)