Saving Our Memory for the Future #2

This is the second in a series of guest blog posts by Dr Sebastian Groes and Nick Lavery of the AHRC Science in Culture Theme Memory Network.  The series reflects on a number of events held by the Memory Network at The Cheltenham Festival. If we could predict the...
The Material Life of Science and Law

The Material Life of Science and Law

This is a guest blog post by Dr Martyn Pickersgill and Dr Emilie Cloatre, investigators for the AHRC Science in Culture Theme Research Network ‘Technoscience, Law and Society: Interrogating the Nexus.’ Martyn Pickersgill is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in...
Saving Our Memory for the Future #1

Saving Our Memory for the Future #1

This is the first in a series of guest blog posts by Dr Sebastian Groes and Nick Lavery, of the AHRC Science in Culture Theme Research Network, The Memory Network. The series reflects on a number of public events held at the Cheltenham Festival in October 2013. The...
Is Transcultural Psychiatry corned beef to the Humanities?

Is Transcultural Psychiatry corned beef to the Humanities?

This blog post is by Dr Gavin Miller, University of Glasgow, Principal Investigator for AHRC Science in Culture Theme Exploratory Award ‘Debating the First Principles of Transcultural Psychiatry’. Corn(ed) Beef, n. Rhyming slang for deef (s.v. deaf) (Edb., Arg., Gsw.,...
Big Data in the Humanities: The Need for Big Questions

Big Data in the Humanities: The Need for Big Questions

This blog post is by Professor Barry C Smith, Director of the Institute of Philosophy and the Leadership Fellow for the AHRC Science in Culture Theme. I’ve just returned from Silicon Valley and the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data at which there was a...