Sustainable Innovation, Law, and Policy in a Post-Covid World
The Scottish Law and Innovation Network (SCOTLIN) is delighted to announce its 1st annual conference, to be hosted at Stirling Highland Hotel, Thursday 21st-Friday 22nd April 2022.
#SCOTLIN2022
Law and Innovation in Scotland: Working with and outwith academia
Chair: Rossana Ducato (Aberdeen)
Panellists:...
On Wednesday 6th April the Royal Society of Arts MCICH Fellows Network is hosting an online talk called 'Surveillance: Expert perspectives'. Professor Kirstie Ball, CRISP Director, alongside Iain Mitchell QC and Dr Brian Plastow, Scottish Biometrics Commissioner will discuss their respective perspectives on surveillance. They will take in questions of privacy and regulations in the acquisition...
On Tuesday 25th January Kirstie Ball will deliver a talk to the National Association of Data Protection Officers in their lunchtime seminar series. The talk is entitled 'Worker Monitoring and Surveillance: Psycho-social risks and organizational justice' and is based on the findings of her recent report for the Joint Research Council of the European Union.
Kirstie will discuss how the...
Presenters:
Anna Wilson (University of Stirling); Jen Ross (University of Edinburgh); Pat Lockley (Pgogy Webstuff); Jane McKie (University of Edinburgh); and Amy Collier (Middlebury College)
About the Workshop
In this workshop, participants will discuss and imagine data and surveillance futures in education. You will have a chance to experience the storytelling tool 'Data...
Speakers include:
Joshua Fairfield (Washington and Lee University), From Owned to Owner: Changing the Core Narratives of Digital PropertyMarco Ricolfi (University of Turin), The Future of Intellectual Property in the Algorithmic SocietyCristiana Sappa (IÉSEG), Who owns cultural heritage in the algorithmic society?Dan L Burk (University of California), Cheap Creativity and What It Will...
ABSTRACT
Participants at this Workshop will explore and better comprehend how evolving information flows are impacting on the higher education experience, from a variety of perspectives, whether it be as a student, educator, researcher, administrator, manager, librarian, technologist or policy-advisor. Of particular interest are the unforeseen implications and consequences of...
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On June 22nd at 6pm BST the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) Fellows MCICH network is hosting an online panel discussion entitled 'Future Work, Future Workplace'.
Professor Kirstie Ball will lead the discussion, which will focus on workplace surveillance. Robert Carr, Anderson Strathern LLP and Fair Work Convention member and Aidan O’Carroll, Chairman IoD Scotland, Chairman designate Revenue...
You are invited to a two-day technical workshop on “Practices towards algorithmic management and their impact on workers” runs on June 15th from 1 - 4pm and on June 16th from 3 - 6pm. All times are CEST.
The workshop takes place under the auspices of the “Building partnerships on the future of work” project. It is a collaboration between the Joint Research Centre of the European...
Watching and being seen often features in biblical texts. God and angels are depicted as figures able to observe humans. People in the Bible engage in looking at others, sometimes spying on enemies, or keeping an eye out in particular for those who are in need. Being seen is also understood as something people need and want; to be confirmed by God’s gaze.
Everyday life in the 21st...
SCOTLIN launch event funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE).
Professor Hector MacQueen, Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Private Law (University of Edinburgh), Chair of the Law section of the British Academy, and former Scottish Law Commissioner will be present “Law and Innovation in Scotland: Some Impressionistic Thoughts”, 31st March at 4pm.
To attend the event please...
