IAS workshops are typically one day in length and topics should be cross-disciplinary, bringing together expertise from across the breadth of our University.
Below are details of our upcoming workshops which aim to explore cutting-edge issues in research through cross-departmental collaboration.
If you are interested in attending any of the below events, please contact Lauren Rawlins.
More information on proposing an IAS workshop can be found at Propose an IAS Workshop.
- Date
- Monday 22nd October 2018
- Location:
- Computer Science (Y9), Sloman Lounge
- Description
- Infectious diseases impose a significant health and economic burden upon individuals and societies. Mathematical and computational modelling are increasingly used to understand how pathogens spread through populations, and to inform decisions about their control.
- Date
- Thursday 8th November 2018
- Location:
- Jekyll Room, Winterbourne House & Garden
- Description
- The shifting spaces, objects, and relationships of home provide significant challenges for researchers seeking to understand the experience of past and present homes. As these debates continue to feel distinctly vital, this workshop will bring together researchers working on questions of home.
- Categories:
- Arts and Law, Lectures Talks and Workshops, Research, Social Sciences
- Date
- Tuesday 20th November 2018
- Location:
- Edgbaston Room Lucas House
- Description
- This Children and Childhoods Network (CCN) workshop will explore intersections between CCN's major research on technology, and health and wellbeing with the aim of better understanding how to make the best of the university's research strengths to address these clear global challenges.
- Date
- Monday 3rd December 2018
- Location:
- TBC
- Description
- Humour is universal; it is exists in every culture throughout the world. This IAS workshop will discuss: How is humour understood and engaged with in different areas of study? How can humour be used to resist or alleviate live real-world problems? What is humour, in academic terms?
- Date
- Wednesday 5th December 2018
- Location:
- Law School Senior Common Room
- Description
- ALL WELCOME. The Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus topic is vital to the development priorities of several energy-producing countries. This seminar presents on-going research on law and governance innovations for advancing integrated decision-making on WEF issues in Qatar and Middle East.
- Categories:
- Arts and Law, Lectures Talks and Workshops, Life and Environmental Sciences, Research, Social Sciences
- Date
- Wednesday 5th December 2018
- Location:
- TBC
- Description
- ALL WELCOME. Online short-term housing rental platforms such as Airbnb have grown spectacularly in recent years, leading some cities to severely restrict short-term rentals, while others nearby have not. This lecture will examine how this affected house prices, listings, and availability.
- Date
- Thursday 13th December 2018
- Location:
- TBC
- Description
- ALL WELCOME. Sustainable manufacturing is a novel manufacturing model for balanced development. This lecture will cover exciting developments in the areas of industrial cloud robotics, energy-efficient robotised manufacturing, and human-robot collaboration in disassembly; in this crucial field.
- Date
- Monday 17th December 2018
- Location:
- Jekyll Room, Winterbourne House & Garden
- Description
- This workshop will facilitate comparative and collaborative research on key strategies, technologies and techniques needed to govern and address the close interactions between water, energy, food and climate change in Qatar and the United Kingdom.
- Categories:
- Arts and Law, Lectures Talks and Workshops, Research, Social Sciences
- Date
- Tuesday 19th - Wednesday 27th March 2019
- Location:
- University of Birmingham
- Description
- The ICA seeks to create a global network of future research leaders by constructing an arena in which the very best early/mid-career scholars will work together on paradigm-shifting cross-disciplinary research, mentored by some of the most eminent researchers from across the globe. This immersive and intense experience is expected to transform the scholar's own approach to research, enhance their awareness of the work, relevance and potential impact of other disciplines, and to inspire and facilitate new collaborations between distant disciplines; our aim is to make a real, yet volatile, intellectual cocktail that leads to meaningful outputs.