Welfare After Digitalization: Digitalizing Welfare, Outsourcing Responsibility
By bringing together decision-makers, interest organizations, NGO’s, citizens, journalists, educators, and researchers the conference Welfare after Digitalization will try to take stock of digitalization’s effect on the public sector. Numerous TiP-sters will participate in the Welfare After Digitalization conference this week. The goal of the conference is to better understand what welfare has become after […]
The Grand Opening of the Center for Climate IT
IT University of Copenhagen Rued Langgaards Vej 7, Copenhagen, DenmarkOn 7 December 2022, the Center for Climate IT launched with an event at the IT University. The afternoon featured a presentation of the center’s vision from Head of Center Steffen Dalsgaard and Associate Professor James Maguire, a talk on climate sustainability at ITU from Vice-Chancellor Per Bruun Brockhoff, and research presentations from ITU-based researchers Associate Professor Anna Vallgårda from […]
PhD Defense: Andy Lautrup
Andy Lautrup will defend their PhD, Generation Carbon: Loss, goodness and youth climate activism in Norway's oil capital, on December 19th at 13:00 in Auditorium 0. Examination committee:Associate Professor, James Maguire, IT-University of Copenhagen (Chair)Associate Professor, Gökçe Günel, Rice UniversityProfessor, Simone Abram, Durham University Supervisor:Professor, Steffen Dalsgaard, IT-University of Copenhagen Co-Supervisor:Associate Professor, Rachel Douglas-Jones, IT-University […]
Cæcilie Sloth Laursen: Midway
On December 12th, Cæcilie Sloth Laursen will hold her midway seminar! She will be joined by the committee Marisa Cohn, Henriette Langstrup, and Morten Hjelholt. About the PhD project:The project investigates the implementation of video consultations in Danish hospital outpatient clinics during the Covid-19 pandemic (and beyond). In order to follow the use and […]
Hasib Ahsan’s PhD Defense
IT University of Copenhagen - Auditorium: 1 Rued Langgaards Vej 7, København S, DenmarkThe Role of Human Infrastructure: Investigating Digital Interventions in the Global South
Based on fieldwork in five distinct projects, this thesis investigates the role of human infrastructure in the context of digital interventions in the Global South. The settings are an agriculture voice message service for smallholder farmers in Bangladesh, a climate and agricultural information service associated with weather forecast using phone text messages (SMS) also for farmers in Bangladesh, a for-profit service for farmers in Cambodia using digital applications, a digital mental health intervention for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and a study of the reordering of everyday life through digital technologies in Bangladesh during the Covid- 19 pandemic. The focus on human infrastructure is inspired by research within Information & Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD), Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Science Technology Studies (STS) and more.
We have four regular events
- The TiP Salon runs weekly during the semester. We convene around constructive engagement with new publications, visitors to the group and work in progress. The meeting is open, and runs at 12:00-13:00 on Wednesdays. Please contact Zea Yde to sign up to the email list.
- Shut up and Write takes place every week on Wednesdays from 13:15 to 17:00. Based on the model promoted by Inger Mewburn, we commit to writing projects on the whiteboard and write in shorter sessions with breaks.
- The TiP Invited Speaker Series has been running since 2018, and each year 3-4 invited speakers present their work in a public forum. All welcome.
- The TiP Writing Workshop takes place twice a semester, where contributions from all members of TiP are welcome. The purpose of the workshop is to give and receive feedback on ‘in progress’ work. Practically the workshop entails reading all participants’ submission, being a ‘caring opponent’ on one particular text, and participating in constructive debate about the texts.
Sporadic events
When PhD students are at the right stage of their studies, they resurrect the longstanding institution of the STS Reading Group. Previous seasons of the Reading Group can be found here