Prof Susan Halford, University of Bristol, UK

Conference Talk!

At our TFNetworkSpring21 conference on "Creating Value for Economies: Collaborate - Innovate - Educate". 

Susan Halford is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol, UK.

Susan is a Geographer by training, has been an organizational Sociologist for the past 30 years and over the past decade has worked across the social and engineering sciences with a research focus on emerging technologies, digital data and infrastructures. 

As Professor of Sociology at the University of Southampton until December 2018, she was a founding Director of the Web Science Institute. In 2019 Susan joined the University of Bristol as Professor of Sociology and founding co-Director of the Bristol Digital Futures Institute (BDFI), at the centre of the University’s new Temple Quarter innovation campus. 

BDFI is a University Research Institute that pioneers transformative approaches to digital innovation, bringing together researchers from across the disciplines and working with our partners in industry, government and civil society. BDFI is developing in-depth systematic understanding of sociotechnical futures to drive the creation of digital technologies for inclusive, prosperous and sustainable societies.

Susan is a member of the UKRI Digital Economy Programme Board, the UK Biobank Ethics Committee and chairs the ESRC on New and Emerging forms of Data. She is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Society of Arts and is currently President of the British Sociological Association 2018-21. 

Susan's presentation title is: Collaborative research for sociodigital futures: interdisciplinary and cross-sectional perspectives

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