Digital Futures Fellows event

04 Aug 2021

Thursday 23 September, 3pm-4.30pm

This event is targeted at the University's Presidential Research Fellows (PRFs) and at holders of other internal and external fellowships at UoM, following requests from PRFs to find out more about Platform activities and to increase engagement with theme communities.

Find out more about Digital Futures themes and activities, and how you can engage with Digital Futures - directly from our academic theme leads.

Agenda

Introduction:

Professor Chris Taylor, Digital Futures director, AVP for Digital and Innovation.

Theme lead presentations:

• David Schoch, Presidential Fellow in Sociology - Social Media & Networks
• Niels Peek, Professor of Health Informatics - Health & Care
• Richard Kingston, Professor of Urban Planning and GISc - Cities & Environment
• Emma Barrett, Professor of Psychology, Security & Trust - Digital Trust & Security
• Caroline Jay, Reader in Empirically Sound Software Engineering - Human-Centred Design
• Paulo Jorge Da Silva Bartolo, Chair Professor in Advanced Manufacturing - Industry 5.0
• Magnus Rattray, Professor of Computational and Systems Biology - Data Science and AI
• Anna Scaife, Professor of Radio Astronomy - Policy & Innovation

If you would like to submit a question to one of the theme leads, or give a short update on an area of your research which links with Digital Futures activity, please contact peter.kane@manchester.ac.uk.

Register

• Register for the event here

About Digital Futures

Digital Futures is a highly interdisciplinary network which operates across the whole range of the University’s digital research. Digital Futures brings together our research communities to explore new research areas and address strategic opportunities. Activity is grouped around themes that encapsulate our broad research capabilities and the challenges to which these can be applied. Read about the 12 themes.