Between Failure and Hope: Experiences of Digital Technologies for Engaging with Health Inequities in the Global South
DOS Research Centre is pleased to invite you to an event with its Distinguished Speaker Professor Sundeep Sahay, Professor of Information Systems, at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway…
DOS Digital Health Online Event
Professor Niki Panteli, Dr Nisreen Ameen, Dr Najmeh Hafezieh and Dr Philip Wu are pleased to invite you to the DOS Digital Health Online Event, joined by Key Speakers Professor Weizi…
China’s Social Credit Systems: Myth, Reality, and Discourse
There is a great deal of controversy and myth surrounding the infamous social credit system (SCS) in China. Commentators in the West often portray the SCS as an omnipresent surveillance system imposed by the Chinese government on its citizens, feeding on their personal data for the purpose of authoritarian control. This Orwellian image of the…
LITEM-SMART-BIS & DOS Joint Research Seminar: Digital Transformation
The DOS Research Centre is delighted to announce the virtual joint research event by LITEM, SMART-BIS, University Paris Saclay and DOS, Royal Holloway University of London on the theme – Digital Transformation. This event will consist of 4 insightful presentations covering various aspects of digital transformation, from understanding organisational digital transformation to exploring the impact…
What is Theory and What is For?
The Digital Organisation and Society (DOS) Research Centre is delighted to welcome Professor Carol Saunders, Ph.D., for its upcoming distinguished speaker event. Format: Virtual via Zoom. Please contact DOSdirectors@rhul.ac.uk if you want to join this event. 25 February 2022 13:00-15:00 GMT Carol Saunders is an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria and Professor Emerita…
DOS Cybersecurity, Design and Human Behaviour Cluster Event
Dr. Nisreen Ameen and Dr. Elizabeth Quaglia are pleased to invite you to the next DOS cluster event with our Keynote Speakers, Professor Michelle Carter, and Dr. Maryam Mehrnezhaded. Format: Virtual via Zoom. Please contact DOSdirectors@rhul.ac.uk if you want to join this event. 18 February 2022 16:00 GMT Professor Michelle Carter ‘Ethical Issues in the…
Leading Remote & Hybrid Work
We are delighted to announce that the Digital Organisation and Society (DOS) research cluster on ‘Digital Work and Organisation’ is hosting an Industry-Academia virtual event on Tuesday 8th February 2022, 9:00 to 10:30am on ‘Leading Remote and Hybrid Work’. Format: Virtual via Zoom (link below). Please contact DOSdirectors@rhul.ac.uk if you want to join this event. 8 February 2022 09:00 – 10:30 GMT (UK…
Royal Holloway – Taipei Tech Research Seminar
DOS Research Centre is delighted to support a joint research seminar with National Taipei University of Technology (Taipei Tech). 19 January 2022 10:00 – 12:00 GMT (18:00 – 20:00 Taipei time) Speakers Dr. Abdul Kader Al Jandali (Royal Holloway) Dr. Mu-En Wu (Taipei Tech) Dr. Wesley Yuen & Prof. Yu-Lun Liu (Royal Holloway & Taipei…
Cybersecurity, Design And Human Behaviour
We are pleased to invite you to the virtual event hosted by the DOS research cluster on Cyber Security, Design and Human Behaviour. 14 January 2022 10:00 – 11:00 GMT In this event, we aim to provide information on the available funding opportunities for interdisciplinary research around (but not limited to) the following themes: Understanding…
Book Launch ‘ Research Methods for Digital Work and Organization’
Join the editors and contributors to this new book as they discuss challenges and future developments in researching digital work. 1 December 2021 16:00 – 18:00 GMT Digital work is organizationally, interpretively, spatially and temporally complex. An array of innovative methodologies have begun to emerge to capture these activities, whether through re-purposing existing tools, devising…
When Women Propose to Men: A Short Animation Launch
The MANgagement Ring Project is proud to present a second animation on what happens when women propose to men. 9 December 2021 14:30 – 15:30 GMT The MANgagement Ring Project is proud to present a second animation on what happens when women ask their male partners to marry them. At our launch event, Dr. Daniela…
Publishing ‘Digital’ Research in Management Journals
September 09, 2021, 15:00 – 17:00 BST DOS Meet The Editor Event Series We are pleased to announce a new DOS Meet The Editor Event Series to take place during the new academic year 2021-22. The purpose of the Series is to explore the publication of ‘digital’ and other related research in top-rated management journals.…
Gender, Race and Globally Networked White Supremacy
June 29, 2021, 11:00 – 13:00 BST The event will be held at the Moore Auditorium at Royal Holloway Egham campus, and also on Teams. Abstract The 2010s saw a rise in violence inspired by globally networked advocates of white supremacist ideology. These assailants, almost all men, almost always white, find common cause with others…
Labour in China’s Digital Economy
June 22, 2021, 11:00 – 13:00 We invite you to join us in this live webinar on ‘Labour in China’s Digital Economy’. The programme includes presentations and discussions on the following topics: 11.00 – 11.05 INTRODUCTION 11.05 – 11.45 PART I: DISABLED WORKERS IN CHINA’S DATA LABELLING INDUSTRY Enabled Technology and Disabled Workers (15m)HUANG Dan,…
Panel Discussion: Artificial Intelligence and Ethics
May 25, 2021, 14:00 – 16:00Joint event between DOS (Royal Holloway UoL) and IRC (Henley Business School) KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Prof Bernd Carsten Stahl, De Montfort University. Intelligence for a Better Future – An Ecosystem Perspective on the Ethics of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies. Smart information systems (SIS), those systems that incorporate artificial intelligence techniques,…
Digital Displacement: How Digitalization Affects Industry Standards
18 March 2021 DOS Distinguished Speaker LectureSpeaker: Prof Susan Scott, London School of Economics and Political Science Prof. Susan Scott from LSE presents her recent work on how digitization affects the industry standards of the book publishing industry. The development and deployment of digital initiatives is generating significant change within industries. Yet, we know little…
What the online hate-sphere in India can teach us
25 February 2021 DOS Distinguished Speaker LectureSpeaker: Prof Shakuntala Banaji, London School of Economics and Political Science Is ‘social media hate’ something technology or tech policy can fix? Prof Banaji discusses violent misinformation and those who forward it. Historically, mainstream media has been used to embed propaganda and ideological contentions that have led to pogroms,…
Launch event of a new research cluster: Cybersecurity, Design and Human Behaviour
On 6 Nov 2020. We are pleased to invite you to the launch of the new interdisciplinary research cluster as part of the Digital Organisation and Society research centre at Royal Holloway, University of London. Dr. Nisreen Ameen and Dr. Elizabeth Quaglia will be co-leading this new cluster, which seeks to link researchers across departments…
Online Research Seminar
8th July, Joint event DOS and College of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), China Speakers: Prof Lianlian Song, Dr Zhitao Xu , Dr Weishan He Organisers: Dr Ling Xiao and Prof Hari Harindranath Bringing together lectures and researchers from RHUL and NUAA to discuss topics of mutual interest including multiple…
“The Correlation Machine: Digital governance and governing the digital?”
3rd June, 2020 DOS Distinguished Speaker Lecture Speaker: Prof Lucas Introna, Lancaster University For more information see https://royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-teaching/departments-and-schools/business-and-management/events/dos-research-centre-distinguished-speaker-series/ See also video of the talk:
Notes on Digital Activism
Dr Vera Hoelscher|Lecturer in Marketing| Royal Holloway School of Business and Management On 19 February 2020, the DOS Research Centre organised a half-day event on Digital Activism. The purpose of the day was to learn about the nature and impact of digitally enabled and enhanced mobilisation for political, economic and social change, and how research…
“Virtual PhD Conference”
5th 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…
DOS Virtual Roundtable
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. source https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dos-virtual-roundtable-tickets-103929840952?aff=rss
“Digital Health”
30th 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…
“Populism vs Misanthropy on Popular Media” Seminar
14th 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…
Past Events
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…