Publications
Find below a list of publications relating to the work of the Centre.
Briefing papers
2024
- Watson, D; Liveley, G; Goodsir, N; Tovey, P; Mutch, E. (2024) Moving beyond linearity in academic-policymaking impact claims of futures and foresight. Policy Bristol.
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
- Williamson, B; Calladares-Celis, C; Sriprakash, A; Pykett, J; Facer, K. (2023). CenSoF Briefing Paper: Education’s sociodigital promises. Available here
- Pitts F H, Pakes A. (2023). Cybersecuronomics: Cybersecurity and Labour’s Modern Industrial Strategy. https://www.progressivebritain.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Cybersecuronomics-Pitts-and-Pakes.pdf
Journal articles and related
2024
- Sriprakash, A; Williamson, B; Pykett, J; Facer, K & Valladares Celis, C. (2024) Sociodigital futures of education: reparations, sovereignty, care, and democratisation. Oxford Review of Education
- Halford, S; Weal, M; Hardcastle, F; Gibbins, N; Kanza-Pearman, S; and Pope, C. (2024, forthcoming) ‘Semantic Web Practices: infrastructural politics and the future of the Web’ Science Technology and Human Values
- Sriprakash, A; Williamson, B; Facer, K; Pykett, J; Valladares Celis, C. (2024, forthcoming) Sociodigital futures of education: reparations, sovereignty, care, and democratization, Oxford Review of Education.
- Thompson, P; Pitts, F H. (2024). Labour Process Theory and the legacy of operaismo. New directions, old problems. SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO, (167), doi: 10.3280/sl2023-167008
- Thomas, L; Watson, D; Peach, L; Ross, N; Clarke, N. (forthcoming) Assembling with VR: Dancing in a more-than-human world, Exchanges: the Interdisciplinary Journal.
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.
- Yates, E; Charnock, G; Pitts, F H; Johns, J; Bozkurt, Ö. (2023). From coworking to competing? Business models and strategies of UK coworking spaces beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. Competition & Change, (1), doi: 10.1177/10245294231197798
- Southerton, D; Whillans, J. (2023). Time use surveys, social practice theory, and activity connections. The British journal of sociology, doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.13073
- Parker, M. (2023). The university without walls Space, time and capacities. Learning and Teaching, (2), doi: 10.3167/latiss.2023.160202
- Pitts, F H. (2023). Organising the self-employed: combining community unionism, coworking and cooperativism across contexts. Open Research doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.15798.1
- Burger, K; Parker, M. (2023). Leveraging the Sustainable Development Goals as a boundary object in the City of Bristol. Global Social Challenges Journal, (2), doi: 10.1332/bbzq5931
- Komljenovic, J; Williamson, B; Eynon, R; Davies, H. (2023). When public policy ‘fails’ and venture capital ‘saves’ education: Edtech investors as economic and political actors. Globalisation, Societies and Education, doi: 10.1080/14767724.2023.2272134
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
- Milivojevic, S; Singler S. (2023). The technopolitics of crimmigration control. Targeting bodies and scaling borders. Handbook on Border Criminology. Borders as Infrastructure: The Technopolitics of Border Control
- Milivojevic, S. (2023). Artificial Intelligence, COVID-19, and Crime: Charting the Origins and Expansion of Dystopian and Utopian Narratives. In Smith, R, Sarre R, Chang L, Lau L. (Ed.), Cybercrime in the Pandemic Digital Age and Beyond (pp. 233–252). Palgrave Macmillan.
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
2023
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Pitts, F H; Pakes, A; (2023). A Progressive Politics of Work for the Age of Unpeace. https://feps-europe.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/A-progressive-politics-of-work-for-the-age-of-unpeace.pdf
- Bird, C M; Preist, C W; Adrian, F; Lord, C; Jackson, A; Widdicks, K; Kayumbi, G. (2023). Learning from the Big Picture: Applying Responsible Innovation to the Net Zero Research Infrastructure Transformation (ARINZRIT). https://hdl.handle.net/1983/4fab479a-3120-4a29-91b8-cc7c914ebe9c
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
- Lopez Burst, E; Ciolfi Felice, M; O'Kane, A. (2024). Using and Appropriating Technology to Support The Menopause Journey in the UK. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
- Milivojevic, S; Baber, C; Waterson, P; Maynard, S; Hunt, E; Yusuf; S. (2023). Incorporating a ‘ladder of trust’ into dynamic Allocation of Function in Human-Autonomous Agent Collectives. ODAM 2023.
- Milivojevic, S; Sobhani, M; Yusuf, S; Musolesi, M; Waterson, P; Maynard, S. (2024). Steps Towards Satisficing Distributed Dynamic Team Trust. AAAI Symposium Series.
Blog articles
The CenSoF team and our collaborators have written a number of blog articles related to our interdisciplinary work:
2024
- Thomas, L; Cheilan, L. (2024) Exploring river futures https://sociodigitalfutures.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/03/27/exploring-river-futures/
- Watson, A. (2024) Speculative fiction for researching the future https://sociodigitalfutures.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/02/21/speculative-fiction-for-researching-the-future/
- Amato, F. (2024) Exploring the sociodigital dimensions of automated decision making https://sociodigitalfutures.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/02/01/exploring-the-sociodigital-dimensions-of-automated-decision-making/
- Stehrenberger, A. (2024) The benefits of joining a reading group https://sociodigitalfutures.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/01/18/the-benefits-of-joining-a-reading-group/
2023
- Manchester, H. (2023) Participatory Futuring: Why futures matter in times of uncertainty https://sociodigitalfutures.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2023/11/29/participatory-futuring-why-futures-matter-in-times-of-uncertainty/
- Stevenson, T. (2023) Thinking Futures – sociodigital futures in the making https://sociodigitalfutures.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2023/11/23/thinking-futures-sociodigital-futures-in-the-making/
- Thomas, L; Watson, D. (2023) Caring in/with intangible environments https://sociodigitalfutures.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2023/11/09/caring-in-with-intangible-environments/
- Thomas, L. (2023) Repurposing ‘trove’: space, times and bodies https://sociodigitalfutures.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2023/07/31/repurposing-trove/
- Amato, F. (2023) Exploring the Sociodigital Dimensions of Automated Decision-Making https://sociodigitalfutures.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2023/07/31/exploring-sociodigital-dimensions-of-automated-decision-making/
- Deighan, M. (2023) Imagining our Immersive Digital Futures https://sociodigitalfutures.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2023/07/31/imagining-our-immersive-digital-futures
- Anderson, B. (2023) Breaching two worlds, seeing through borders in Calais. https://migration.bristol.ac.uk/2023/07/25/breachi ng-two-worlds-seeing-through-borders-in-calais/
- Deighan, M. (2023) Imagining our Immersive Digital Futures
- Thomas, L. (2023) Repurposing ‘trove’: space, times and bodies
- Francesco, A. (2023) Exploring the Sociodigital Dimensions of Automated Decision-Making
- Halford, S; Southerton, D. (2023) Exploring sociodigital futures
You can read all our blog articles here: CenSoF blog.
In addition, you may also interested to read the following:
- Preist, C; Southerton, D. Digital home working and its sustainability potential: human immobility and the mobilities of stuff, Migration Mobilities Bristol (May 2022)
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