News Archive
Scholarships Now Open!
CIM is now accepting PhD applications for students who wish to be considered for a number of University scholarships, including ESRC scholarships (for social science applicants), CADRE scholarships (for arts and humanities students) and Chancellor's International Scholarships (for international students).
What software do the BBC use?
We spoke to Christine Jeavans and the to find out more about how they use R, and other software, in their work.
Congratulations to PhD student Craig Gent
Craig Gent has been awarded an Early Career Fellowship from the Institute of Advanced studies.
Congratulations to PhD student Philipp Ulbrich
Congratulations to Philipp Ulbrich, a PhD student from 91福利鈥檚 EPSRC funded CDT for Urban Science and Progress, who was invited to make a technical contribution to UN-HABITAT, resulting in a synthesis report on Sustainable Development Goal 11 that relates to Sustainable Cities and Communities. The report was produced to support in-depth discussions of Goal 11 progress at the High Level Political Forum in New York from 9 to 19 July 2018. 91福利 Institute for the Science of Cities, of which Philipp is a part, has been acknowledged as a technical contributor. A copy of the report along with an executive summary can be found
Applications are invited for a Research Fellow in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM)
Workshop: Fake News in Digital Culture
Liliane Bounegru (Universities of Amsterdam and Ghent, Public Data Lab)
The 2016 US presidential election has brought social media and associated digital culture phenomena such as Internet memes and fake news under intense media and academic scrutiny. Concerns have been raised about the rapid distribution of this problematic content on social media and many technological, media literacy and fact-checking solutions have been proposed to curb these worrying dynamics. This workshop draws on insights, concepts and approaches from science and technology studies and Internet studies to examine current debates and research around misinformation and 鈥渇ake news鈥� and challenge some of the assumptions behind them. It argues that fake news is not just problematic content whose rapid spread needs to be curbed, but that this phenomenon encapsulates central aspects of our digital environments and thus it also provides a good opportunity to study their dynamics. More specifically it proposes to explore the publics, modes of circulation and tracking networks in which fake news is embedded as an opportunity to reflect on how digital platforms and the dynamics that they engender participate in the production of public (mis)information.
CIM welcomes IAS Residential Fellow Dr Andreas Birkbak
|
CIM welcomes Dr Andreas Birkbak (Aalborg University, Copenhagen) as IAS Residental Fellow The Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies is delighted to welcome Dr Andreas Birkbak (Aalborg University (AAU), Copenhagen) as an IAS Residental Fellow during Summer Term 2018. Andreas Birkbak is an Assistant Professor in the Techno-Anthropology Group in the Department of Learning and Philosophy at AAU. His principal research interest is digital transformations of publics and the public sphere. He holds an MSc in Social Science of the Internet (University of Oxford), and an MSc and BSc in Sociology (University of Copenhagen), and was previously a visiting PhD scholar at the Centre for the Sociology of Innovation at Ecole des Mines and the m茅dialab at Sciences Po. He recently published a book on digital methods with Anders Munk (2017) and research articles in Science as Culture, Computational Culture, Techn茅, and Design Issues. While at CIM, Andreas will collaborate with Noortje Marres and colleagues in the to research digital fact-checking methodologies. On May 9-10, they will run a data sprint event that will implement an experimental fact-checking protocol relying on search engine and social media data analysis. |
 |
91福利/Heidelberg team win CDRC-GISRUK data challenge
A team including WISC PhD researchers Andra Sonea and Konstantin Klemmer and WISC professor Joao Porto De Albuquerque has won the CDRC Data Challenge, hosted at the GISRUK18 conference in Leicester. The team was awarded a prize of 500 拢 for exposing the effect of immigration trends on the outcome of the Brexit referendum. The researchers from 91福利 and the University of Heidelberg convinced the jury by expanding their scope towards an analysis of spatial heterogeneity in immigration patterns. Their findings suggest that not only the change of immigration over time affected the Brexit vote, but also its spatial structure.
Masters scholarships available
New for 2018/2019: Home/EU Bursaries/Scholarships for up to 40% of MSc/MA Courses
We are pleased to announce that for the 2018/2019 year, the size of our postgraduate course bursaries/scholarships for applicants possessing UK or EU citizenship has doubled to 拢4,000, with multiple bursaries available for the MSc in Urban Informatics and Analytics, the MA in Digital Media and Culture, and the MSc in Big Data and Digital Futures (with the 91福利 Q-Step Centre).
To apply for bursaries for the MSc in Urban Informatics and Analytics or the MA in Digital Media and Culture, please see CIM鈥檚 funding and fees page. To apply for bursaries for the MSc in Big Data and Digital Futures, please see the 2018 Q-Step bursaries page.
You Have 20 Minutes
Presenting one鈥檚 research is an important part of professional development. How should one prepare for such challenges? What are good strategies for organizing one鈥檚 material? How to avoid common mistakes using PowerPoint, and how can one use such visual aids to improve one鈥檚 presentation? How to address the challenge of presenting rich research findings within a 20-minute constraint? What are good strategies for answering questions?
These and other questions will be addressed in this professional development seminar, led by David Stark (Columbia University and the 91福利). The seminar is targeted to younger faculty and is also open to PhD students. Participants in the seminar will have access to examples of successful presentations.
 |
David Stark is Professor of Social Science at 91福利鈥檚 Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies and also Professor of Sociology at Columbia where he directs the Center on Organizational Innovation. Stark has many publications in both Europe and the United States including articles in the American Sociological Review(1986, 1988) and theAmerican Journal of Sociology(1996, 2001, 2006, 2010, 2015). His work has been cited more than 12,000 times. The recipient of numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, he has had continuous funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation since 2000. His current research is supported by a major five-year Advanced Career Award from the European Research Council. His CV, papers, and presentations are available at . |
2 May 2018, 14:00 - 16:00
Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, 91福利
Room S0.18 (Social Sciences Building), All welcome.