5^th May, 2020 DOS Conference

Organisers: Dr Nejmeh Hafezieh, Sarah Salahuddin, Shyam Krishna

An opportunity for PhD students to present a key aspect of their research to other students and academic staff and gain valuable feedback on their work.  Above all, during these unprecedented times, allows more active engagement with others in the PhD community at Royal Holloway for  community support.  Also an opportunity to learn new ways of engaging and using technologies that may soon become the new norm.  Mix of poster and seminar presentations from PhD students across all years of the PhD programme, feedback from diverse academic audience and a general question and answer session.

When:
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM (BST)

Hosted By:
DOS RHUL

Register for this event now at :
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dos-virtual-roundtable-tickets-103929840952?aff=rss

Event Details:
Please join us for an informal zoom session to share your current research projects or exchange ideas.

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30^th January 2020 Joint IRC, Henley Business School and DOS, Royal Holloway

Speakers:  Dr Philip Wu (DOS), Dr Vicky Weizi Li (IRC), Dr Anna Noel-Storr, Cochrane Crowd Lead and Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive Improvement Group Information Specialist, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, Oxford University

Organisers: Prof Keiichi Nakata (IRC) and Prof Niki Panteli (DOS)

A joint seminar between the Informatics Research Centre (IRC) at Henley Business School, University of Reading, and the Digital Organization and Society Research Centre (DOS), Royal Holloway.

See https://www.henley.ac.uk/events/irc-dos-joint-seminar-on-digital-health for more information

14^th November 2019 Joint CHRONOS and DOS research centres seminar

Speakers: Dr James Smith (Dept of English, RHUL) and Alfie Brown (Media Arts)

Organiser: Dr Chloe Preece

The authors of Other People’s Politics and The PlayStation Dreamworld debate the relationship between idealisation and hatred of “the people” in our politics, and the business models of digital media.

DOS Public Events 2018-2019

10 October 2018 | DOS/TIM Seminar: Big Data Analytics Research for Sustainability, Prof. Patrick Chau, University of Hong Kong

14 November 2018 | DOS Seminar: Theorising Online Labour Markets as a Model for Organising Knowledge Work: Insights from a Comparative Case Study, Dr. Greetje Corporaal, Oxford Internet Institute

6 March 2019 | DOS Distinguished Speaker Lecture: The Digital Architecture of Time Management, Prof. Judy Wajcman, Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics

9 May 2019 | TGN/DOS Seminar: Digital Platforms and International Development, Dr. Carla Bonina, Surrey Centre for the Digital Economy, University of Surrey

16 May 2019 | CHRONOS/DOS Seminar: Robotization of Work, Prof Barbara Czarniawska, Gothenburg Research Institute, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

21 May 2019 | DOS One Day Event: Platform Work in Global Contexts, Speakers include researchers from RHUL, Oxford Internet Institute, Overseas Development Institute, University of Loughborough, and University of Leicester

5 June 2019 | DOS/KoL Seminar:The Transformative Power of Knowledge Sharing in Settings of Poverty and Social Inequality, Prof Israr Qureshi, Distinguished Academic Visitor, Australian National University

14 June 2019 | BSA/DOS One Day Conference: Surveillance in the 21st Century, Keynotes: Prof. Deborah Lupton (University of Canberra) and Prof. Lizzie Coles- Kemp (Information and Security Group, RHUL). The event is organised by Amalina Zakariah (School of Management) and Courtney Hagen Ford (School of Law).

18 June 2019  | DOS One Day Workshop: Digitisation and Sustainable Development,  Keynote: Prof. Chrisanthi Avgerou (LSE), Participants include Prof. Geoff Walsham (Cambridge), Prof. Israr Qureshi (ANU) , and researchers from University of Sheffield, Institute of Development Studies, etc.

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DOS PhD Events 2018-2019

The DOS Research Centre incorporates the Friendly and Critical Support Space (FCSS) which seeks to provide a supportive community for PhD students affiliated with the Centre.

4 June 2019 | DOS PhD Workshop: Social Network Analysis, Prof Israr Qureshi, Distinguished Academic Visitor, Australian National University