About this Event
Join us for a panel discussion with early-career scholars for a wide-ranging conversation on navigating the shifting landscape of academia. We will discuss the changing realities (and expectations) that early-career researchers must confront, including moving between disciplines, adapting to new methods, publishing cross-disciplinary research, and responding to the uncertainties of research funding. The conversation will explore what these conditions mean for building careers in academia and/or beyond, as well as avenues for mentorship and support. The panel brings together senior and early-career scholars: Adam Badger, Karen Gregory, and Nelson Oppong with different disciplinary backgrounds, research interests, and career pathways to reflect on their experiences navigating academia and its uncertainties. We invite early-career scholars, including PhD students, research and academic staff, to join the discussion. The panel aims to create space for sharing experiences and reflections, and for seeking input and support in responding to uncertainties in research and academic work.
Speakers
Dr. Adam Badger is a Lecturer in Economic Geography at Newcastle University. His research focuses on platform work in relation to the city - specifically the intersections between urban geographies, labour geographies, and the lived experiences of work that navigate them. He has worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Royal Holloway and Oxford University. He is currently working towards turning his PhD thesis, Labouring at the Interface: Exploring the rhythms and resistances of working in London’s food delivery gig economy, into a monograph which is under contract with Bristol University Press.
Dr. Karen Gregory is a digital sociologist and ethnographer whose work explores the nature and experience of self-employment in the digital economy with a focus on platform labour, risk, and precarity. She is based at the University of Edinburgh, where she is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology. Karen founded the MSc in Digital Sociology here and is also the Lead for the Digital/Data Research Theme in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. She is co-editor of the book Digital Sociologies (Policy Press 2016), Associate Editor at the Journal of Cultural Economy, and on the Editorial Board at Platforms and Society.
Dr. Nelson Oppong is a Senior Lecturer in African Studies and International Development at the University of Edinburgh. His work focuses on the political economy of natural resources, institutional reform, state-building, energy governance, and global development across Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific. Nelson sits on the editorial boards of the Review of African Political Economy and Critical African Studies and serves on the International Advisory Board for Intersecting Energy Cultures – based at the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania.
This event is jointly organised by AI Ethics & Society, the Planetary AI project, and the Digital Economy and Society Cluster at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Room 2.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute, The University of Edinburgh, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
