Call for speakers
Deep Tech and
Society seminars
An online seminar series from the Deep Tech Innovation Centre, starting this semester. We have slots open for speakers, and late-stage PhD students and early career researchers are very welcome.
About the series
We are planning an online seminar series for research on Deep Tech and Society, broadly construed, hosted by the Deep Tech Innovation Centre at the University of Glasgow and kicking off in the next few weeks.
Each seminar is a one-hour slot: 30 to 40 minutes for your presentation, followed by questions and discussion.
We will circulate details of each seminar in good time for anyone who would like to attend.
Propose a talk
Proposals are welcome on a rolling basis. Email Gemma Milne with:
- Your name
- Your affiliation and title
- A talk title
- A brief abstract, around 250 words (no need to spend hours editing down something you already have)
- Your rough availability
Examples of inquiry
- Intellectual property in quantum technology startups
- Organisational structures in the nuclear energy value chain
- Political economy of technology transfer
- Ethics of brain-computer interface commercialisation
- Platformisation of biotechnology
- Political imaginations in the New Space sector
- Histories of brain-computer interfaces
- Alternative (anti-capitalist?) structures for bringing research into materiality
- Venture capital shifts in the agritech space
- Human geography studies surrounding mineral extraction operations
- Government and industry defence funding of emerging technologies
- Cultural analysis of climate tech interventions
Fields it may draw on
- Science and Technology Studies
- Infrastructure Studies
- Law and Political Economy
- Economic Sociology
- Organisation Studies
- Medical Humanities
- Social Studies of Outer Space
- Global Pharmaceutical and Society Studies
- Critical Geography
- Social Studies of Energy
- Agro-industry Studies
- Energy and Social Science
- History of Science
- Cultures of Technology