UK conferences, seminars and talks

2026

2025

  • Coleman, R. Research presentation 'Care or control? Regulating technology, behaviour and gender at school'. International impact-oriented event: Care or control?. 23 May 2025. UCL. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2025/may/care-or-control-regulating-technology-behaviour-and-gender-school 
  • Halford, S & Carr, L. Symposium presentation. 'Strategies for using AI and digital methods to conduct secondary analysis of qualitative interview data'. Centre for Sociodigital Futures & LSE, 4 June 2025
  • Halford, S & Carr, L. NCRM Workshop speakers. 'What are the sociodigital futures of qualitative research? What claims are made for LLMs? And how might we think about this differently?', NCRM, 22 October 2025. https://repository.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/video/?id=4995 
  • Halford, S. and Southerton, D.  Keynote. British Sociological Association Conference ‘Theorising Sociodigital Futures: spatial, temporal and analytical connections’ 23-25 April 2025. Manchester 
  • Horsley, N. Conference presentation. 'Family flows and the sociodigital mundane' Inaugural International Child and Family Conference, University of Bristol. June 2025
  • Horsley, N; Carver, N and Dermott, E. ‘(Re)configuring caring practices through smart technology: the Sociodigital mundane in everyday life’. BSA conference. 23-25 April 2025. Manchester
  • Kleen, N. Conference presentation. 'From Future Buildings to Building Futures: A Sociological Perspective on Building Information Modelling', UCL Sociology Network PhD Student Conference 2025, London, June 2025 
  • Kleen, N. Conference organisation/committee member. SWDTP Annual Student Conference: Everyday & Beyond – Encountering, Sharing, Caring, Bath Spa University, October 2025
  • Kleen, N. Workshop organisation. 'Researching Technology: What Can Social Scientists Bring to the Table?', SWDTP Annual Student Conference, Bath, October 2025
  • Manchester, H, Cheilan, L, Clarke, P, Gutierrez Lopez, M and Facer, K. 'Participatory Sociodigital Futures' symposium, University of Bristol, 19 June 2025
  • Manchester, H. Keynote presentation. 'Care, Creativity, Connection and Change.', British Society of Gerontology, 26 June 2025. https://www.britishgerontology.org/events-and-courses/past-conferences-content/2025-conference-content/provisional-programme-schedule
  • May Thomas, L and Pykett, J. Conference presentation. 'Bringing Bodies into Sociodigital Futures Research', Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference 2025, 26-29 August 2025. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/publications/bringing-bodies-into-sociodigital-futures-research/
  • May Thomas, L. and Watson, D. ‘Data starts (and ends) in my body, theorising embodied entanglements with technologies’. BSA conference. 23-25 April 2025. Manchester 
  • May Thomas, L and Watson, D. Conference workshop. 'Data starts (and ends) in my body: creative explorations', International Child and Family Conference, 17-19 June 2025. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/publications/data-starts-and-ends-in-my-body-creative-explorations/ 
  • Southerton, D. Keynote presentation. ‘Transitioning from small to large research investments’. For ESRC Research Leadership Network. June 2024. Swindon 
  • Van Isacker, T. Workshop presentation. 'Chains of suspicion: SAR, criminalisation, & epistemic domination in the Channel', Border Economies Workshop, University of Liverpool, 11 Sept 2025 
  • Van Isacker, T. Conference presentation. ‘Redefining infrastructures of solidarity and care’. Lexicon II: Hostility & Infrastructures of care, organised by LIMINAL at Royal College of Arts, London. 4-7 February 2025.Lexicon II: Hostility & Infrastructures of care Tickets, Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM | Eventbrite. London
  • Watson, D; Van Isacker, T and May Thomas, L. ‘In search of a Sociodigital futures methodology for understanding predictive systems. BSA conference. 23-25 April 2025. Manchester 
  • Welisch, G. Conference presentation. 'Botter: Social Media for Bots'. 13th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Dundee, Scotland. July 2025. https://2025.xcoax.org/ 

2024

  • Atkins, E. Conference presentation ‘Mapping food waste inside household refrigerators’. Royal Geographical Society conference. August 2024. London 
  • Cheilan, L; Gutierrez Lopez, M and Okafo, O. Contribution to conference Summer School. Anticipation 2024. 9-10 September 2024. Lancaster 
  • Clarke, P. Panel contribution. Anticipation 2024 conference. September 2024. Lancaster 
  • Gutierrez Lopez, M. Seminar. ‘Sociodigital futures: exploring a new field of research and practice’. Human Computer Interaction Design (HCID) lab, City, University of London. 29 November 2024. 
  • Halford, S. Digital Good Network Annual Conference. Plenary keynote. January 2024
  • Horsley, N; Carver, N and Dermott, E. Presentation. ‘Capturing the affective: the smart home as living archive’. Routines, rhythms and affective intimacy in everyday life, One-day symposium. University of Westminster. 11 June 2024. London 
  • Manchester, H; Cheilan, L and Gutierrez Lopez, M. Conference presentation. ‘Work with communities and Locality’. Anticipation conference. 12 September 2024. Lancaster 
  • McQuillan, D. Talk to School of Computing and Communications, Open University. February 2024
  • Milivojevic, S. Is the future of justice in technology co-creation? Talk within Digital Society and Economy Interdisciplinary Research Theme (IRT) event. University of Glasgow. May 2023. https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_972400_smxx.pdf
  • Valladares Celis, C; Facer, K and Pykett, J. ‘Virtual Flying Carpets and Digital Disaster Rooms: Towards a critical analysis of immersive speculative environments in Museums of the Future’, Anticipation Conference. Sept 2024. Lancaster

2023

  • Facer, K. Future of futures workshop; the next 10 years. School of Advanced Studies, London (2023) 
  • Gutierrez, M. and Halford, S. (with Fahimi, M, Poechhacker, N and Kinder-Kurlander, K) Reframing AI Explainability. BSA conference, UK (April 2023)
  • McQuillan, D. Technomoral Futures. Seminar for PhD students at Edinburgh Centre for Technomoral Futures. November 2023
  • Pitts, F H. Invited discussant at launch of Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy, Greenwich Business School. May 2023
  • Pykett, J. Opening speeches and panellist for Birmingham Settlement Neighbourhood Futures Festival, Birmingham, UK (June 2023)
  • Southerton, D. and Schatzki, T. ‘Digitality’. Keynote at the International Practice Theory Network Conference on ‘Large Phenomena’. November 2023
  • Southerton, D. Keynote, reflecting on the development of the sociology of consumption at a symposium to mark the academic contribution of Alan Warde. 2023
  • Thomas, L. and Jewitt, C. "Unlocking Touch: exploring somatic participation in remote performance with binaural technology". The 6th International Dance and Somatic Practices Conference 2023 https://sites.google.com/view/dspconference2023/guide July 2023
  • Van Isacker, T. Doing IPS PhD Seminar – King's Department of War Studies. Discussant for Silvester Schlebruegge’s (Warwick) paper titled “Countercurrents: The aesthetics of subversion and the (im)possibilities of dissensus in the ‘Channel migrant crisis”. November 2023
  • Van Isacker, T. Border Environments Design Studio: MA City Design programme at the Studio at the Royal College of Art. June 2023
  • Watson, D. Moving Beyond the ‘VR Empathy Machine’: Engaging Young People at Risk in Alternative Realities. British Sociological Association conference- digital sociology stream. https://www.britsoc.co.uk/media/26100/ac2023_abstr act_book_day2.pdf April 2023.
  • Watson, D and Thomas, L. Situated Ecologies of Care: sticking with the dance, caring over time. Presented at the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) International Conference: Situated Ecologies of Care. https://ahra2023.org/ October 2023.
  • Watson, D. and Thomas, L. Moving beyond the ‘VR empathy machine': speculative potentials and pitfalls for immersive technologies in social research BSA 2023 conf presentation_CenSoF_2 (PDF, 1,101kB). BSA conference (April 2023)

2022

  • Pykett, J. Educating the imagination through immersive experiences. Institute of Education, London, UK (Dec 2022)
  • Facer, K. (Keynote). Centre for Social Futures, Lancaster Stories4Policy Conference (2022)
  • Hauert, S. (Invited talk) Swarms for People. Robotics Interoperability Workshop, RCA (2022)
  • Parker, M. Asking Bristol (webinar). Social Infrastructure and City Systems, Schumacher Institute (2022)
  • Parker, M. and McQuillan, D. Book launch for McQuillan’s Resisting AI, University of Bristol (17 Nov 2022)
  • Pykett, J. (Keynote) Educating the imagination through immersive experiences. Institute of Education, UCL (13 Dec 2022)