The Digital Futures Institute’s Centre for Technology and the Body is running a series of workshops in 2025 to foster interdisciplinary collaboration between the arts and humanities and health sciences at King’s College London. The series aims to create a space for research relationships, mentoring, and partnership building that leads to future funding bids.
Convenors: Prof Fay Bound Alberti (History, Director of the Centre for Technology and the Body) and Dr Lili Golmohammadi (Methodologies, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery, and Palliative Care).
To allow ideas and relationships to build, we hope that attendees will be able to attend multiple workshops in our series; please do bookmark these dates in your diaries! (N.B. workshop themes at this stage are indicative and will be responsive to the interests of participants).
The full set of dates are:
- Wednesday 5 March 2025, 1 – 4 PM, at the Strand Building, Room S.013: Interdisciplinarity – workshopping opportunities and challenges.
- Wednesday 2 April 2025, 1-4PM, Creative Collaboration Space, The Science Gallery London (Guy's Campus): Building interdisciplinary relationships and establishing research themes and questions.
- Tuesday 20 May 2025, London Institute for Healthcare Engineering, Thames Suite, 1-4PM: Interdisciplinary seeds & small grants.
- Wednesday 11th June 2025, 1 – 4PM, at Inigo Rooms, Somerset House East Wing: Funding applications – next steps and planning.
To keep the conversation going, these dates will later be followed by a monthly series of ‘brown bag’ meetings for sharing work in progress, and ideas and challenges in the field of technology and the body. These meetings will further enable cross-faculty networking and support Early Career Researchers to develop their work.
The Centre for Technology and the Body is part of the Digital Futures institute that explores how we live well with technology. We welcome collaborative, critical investigation of the history, present and future of technology, and how it intersects with our physical, sensory, and emotional worlds.