Poverty and Social Justice in a Digital Future: Digital Inequalities and the Impacts of A.I. on Poverty

Join the Bristol Poverty Institute (BPI) for this engaging afternoon of discussions with a range of experts from across the University exploring topics around social justice, digital/tech developments, and poverty. This is an internal event for University of Bristol researchers.

This internal workshop will consist of two thematic sessions, with a networking break in-between to expand on discussions over refreshments.

Digital inequalities: resistance and participation

Dr Sue Timmis: Geospatial digital inequalities: challenging new frontiers of colonialism and marginalisation in higher education

Dr Lyndsay Grant: Inequalities, discrimination and disinformation in digital education- responses and resistance

Dr Alice Willatt and Professor Helen Manchester: Digital participation, rebellion and co-design with older adults

The impacts of A.I. on poverty

Professor Martin Parker: Sociodigital futures and social justice

Professor Genevieve Liveley: Universal Barriers and Cyber Security Futures

Dr Conor Houghton: Title TBC

Each session will kick-off with short presentations from our fantastic speakers before moving on to a panel discussion. We’re hoping to attract people from all across the University to have an interdisciplinary discussion and to be exposed to different perspectives, methodologies and approaches.

The aim of this event is to build up internal awareness and offer researchers from different communities to identify synergies, with a view to being better placed to collaborate in response to future funding calls and to situate considerations of poverty and social justice within the mindsets of researchers working in the digital space for these future bids.

We’re not only encouraging attendance from those whose work is already applied or relevant to aspects of poverty, but also researchers whose work does not currently have any explicit link but could potentially be of relevance to tackling and reducing poverty and inequalities (even if it is a couple of steps removed – other colleagues may be able to bridge that gap). This event is for University of Bristol researchers only; however, we are hoping to run a follow-up event open to the public in due course. 

The draft agenda for the day is as follows:

13:15-13:30 Registration and refreshments

13:30-13:45 Welcome and introduction

13:45-15:15 Session 1: Digital inequalities: resistance and participation

15:15-15:45 Break; networking

15:45-17:00 Session 2: The Impacts of A.I. on Poverty

17:00-17:30 Networking

Please be aware that the Bristol Poverty Institute plan to take photographs during the event, which we will share online (including our Twitter/X feed, website and/or blog). If you are uncomfortable with this, please notify a member of the BPI team on the day and we will endeavour to try and avoid including you in any photographs. Due to the nature of the event we cannot guarantee you won’t be in any images, but we will try and avoid taking photos where you are clearly visible.