Today is an auspicious day, though many of our readers won’t know it. Today was supposed to be the first day of the Economy & Society Summer school, a weeklong conference held in Blackwater Castle in Cork, Ireland. The Economy & Society Summer School (generally… Read More »The Origins of HECAT – Part Three: The Economy & Society Summer School
Today we would like to make our readers aware of a conference planned for May 2021 on the issue of transparency. As the HECAT project involves a detailed study of algorithms and their social impact, it seems an ideal opportunity to talk about “big data”… Read More »Call For Papers – Rethinking Transparency Conference 19-21 May 2021 Copenhagen Business School
To briefly summarize, the WUERC project was an unemployment research project that took place in the summer of 2012, several of its members would go on to the HECAT project and so it forms an important part of HECAT’s history. By mid-June 2012 we had… Read More »The Origins of HECAT – Part Two: More WUERC
Sociology teaches us the importance of understanding that all things have histories, and of course HECAT is no exception. Today we will start at the beginning (or as near to the beginning as we can get). It was June 2012, the world was still reeling… Read More »The Origins of HECAT – Part One WUERC
Every so often we would like to highlight recent research / publications which are relevant to HECAT’s focus on (un)employment and algorithms. Today we are highlighting a piece by Didier Demazière, an accomplished Industrial Sociologist working out of the prestigious Paris Institute of Political Studies… Read More »Research Highlight – Didier Demazière
Every so often we will share opportunities which crop up in the academic sphere, particularly those which relate to algorithms, but also economics, sociology, psychology, theology or any other topics or subjects which relate to HECAT. These may include calls for papers, special journal issues,… Read More »Academic Opportunities (and Cancellations)
The Hecat research project was officially launched last month, March 3rd and 4th at the Finnstown Castle Hotel. Hecat is funded under the Horizon 2020 research framework, a research initiative focused on enhancing innovation and fostering interdisciplinarity upon the foundation of European Values. The goal… Read More »HECAT Kickoff Meeting
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