As part of our Social Work Seminar Series, this seminar will speak to a current writing project, which examines how the purposes of the parole system, and especially the Parole Board, has been interpreted and contested in the public sphere in England and Wales over the past two decades.
Join us for Living with Toxic Development: Shipbreaking and Greenwashing in Bangladesh with Dr Camelia Dewan, Uppsala University
All Q-Step seminars are on Mondays at 1-2pm in the Violet Laidlaw Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building. They are open to all students and staff. Events are free. No booking is required.
AI has potential to transform healthcare, however the use of emergent technologies in that area remains contested.
Come and join us for Professor Charlotte Bosseaux's book launch A Voice of Their Own. Encouraging Caring and Ethical Practices in Trauma Screen Translation (Palgrave Pivot, 2025).
Join this online talk with Dr Yuan Wang (Peking University), as she introduces her book The Railpolitik: Leadership and Agency in Sino-African Infrastructure Development, investigating the interactions between Chinese state actors and African politics.
This paper explores scaling as material practice, imperative, belief system, imaginary and mathematical law(s) in today’s AI, in particular in the development of large language models.
Join writer and researcher Kevin Guyan to explore ideas from his new book Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Categories and the Dangers of Inclusion. Rainbow Trap reveals how the fight for LGBTQ equalities is shaped – and constrained – by the classifications we encounter every day.
