Workshop 5 was the concluding workshop of the CHASE City Maps series, and was led by Ben Fraser (University of Arizona). It had two aims. On the one hand, it offered reflections on the emerging field of Urban Cultural Studies and its interdisciplinary approach, bridging the Arts and Humanities and the Social Sciences. On the … Continue Reading
In Workshop 3 of the CHASE City Maps series, Clancy Wilmott from the University of Manchester (now at University of California Berkeley) began with an outline of her own work on mobile mapping, and the emerging relationships between space, cartography and digital technologies. These themes were connected with the research projects of workshop participants, who … Continue Reading
In Workshop 1 of the CHASE City Maps series, Iain Borden from University College London focused on ‘experience’ as a transdisciplinary urban concept. As depicted in the film from the workshop, his introduction to the concept of experience was both via his own work – on topics ranging from skateboarding to automobile driving – as … Continue Reading
The website for last year’s ‘City Maps’ workshop – which I co-convened with Mari Paz Balibrea and Lawrence Webb – is now live. This series was funded by the CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership, and included workshops led by Johan Andersson, Iain Borden, Ben Fraser, Shannon Mattern, Rebecca Ross and Clancy Wilmott. I’d be remiss to … Continue Reading
Okay, so this really will be my final blog post in a while that begins with the words ‘places available’. With apologies to those not in London / the Southeast of England, some places are available on the next City Maps doctoral training workshop, funded by CHASE, which will take place on Friday 28 June … Continue Reading
With apologies to those not in London / the Southeast of England, some places are available on the next City Maps doctoral training workshop, funded by CHASE, which will take place on Thursday 28 March 2019 at Birkbeck’s University Square Stratford campus. This workshop is part of a series I am co-organising with my Birkbeck … Continue Reading
The great interns at BISR have written an excellent post on my seminar on ‘the networked academic’ which I think captures the event really well, in terms of content as well as the audience’s contributions (which I regret not allowing more time for at the end). One small correction – where I was referring to … Continue Reading
This Thursday 2nd May from 12.30-2.00pm I will be giving a seminar for the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research (BISR) on ‘The networked academic: social media and your research identity’. It is part of BISR’s ‘Developing Your Research Career’ seminar series, and will comprise both a (partial) survey of various social media platforms currently being … Continue Reading
I recently wrote about the Doing research amongst technologies workshop series I am co-organising, and for which I co-convened the opening workshop session. I also had a pleasure of attending the second of the series, convened by a colleague from my Open University days, Joe Smith, a consummate public scholar, both in the broadcast and … Continue Reading
A recent adventure in which I’ve been involved in organising (with Sophie Hope and Lorraine Lim) is a Summer Term 2011 postgraduate workshop series on Doing research amongst technologies. Aside from work going into convening the different sessions in the workshop series, I managed to talk myself into co-leading the opening workshop. Luckily, I had … Continue Reading