Hosted by POLSIS, the Digital Politics Research Group aims to bring together members across the College of Social Sciences and beyond with a research interest in areas of digital politics.

We understand ‘Digital Politics’ to cover a wide range of topics related to, for example, digital technologies, social media, everyday politics of the digital, political participation, contestation and other digital practices, new modes of surveillance, dis- and misinformation, and digital communities.

In particular, our aim is to establish an interdisciplinary, methodologically pluralist research group which will provide researchers with a space for collaborative exploration, networking, and sharing of best practices and challenges when it comes to methodology in this developing field of research.

Activities

We anticipate monthly lunch meetings to discuss work in progress as well as organise workshops and events involving both UoB members and external guests.

Next meeting: End of March 2025 (date tbc)
In planning: Half-day workshop on the challenges of digital research for qualitative approaches for members with an open lecture

Convenors:

Dr Lipika Kamra (Assistant Professor, POLSIS)
Dr Verena K Brändle (Assistant Professor, POLSIS)

For more information, or to join the research group, please contact l.kamra@bham.ac.uk or v.k.brandle@bham.ac.uk