New Project with the ESRC and Women’s Forum

ESRC GRAND UNION DOCTORAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP (DTP) COLLABORATIVE DOCTORAL STUDENTSHIP WITH THE WOMEN’S FORUM FOR THE ECONOMY AND SOCIETY. Excited to announce a new collaborative doctoral studentship in partnership with the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society. This doctoral research will make use of a range of social science methods to study the gender […]

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Data Work: The Hidden Talent And Secret Logic Fuelling Artificial Intelligence

What happens when new artificial intelligence (AI) tools are integrated into organisations around the world?For example, digital medicine promises to combine emerging and novel sources of data and new analysis techniques like AI and machine learning to improve diagnosis, care delivery and condition management. But healthcare workers find themselves at the frontlines of figuring out […]

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Using Social Comparisons to Facilitate Healthier Choices

This exploratory research examines how we might nudge consumers towards making healthier food choices in online grocery shopping or other digitally mediated food consumption contexts. Our pilot study investigated how different forms of social comparisons could be used to encourage consumers to reduce the number of calories contained in their online grocery basket. Our findings […]

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