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IMGAME Fieldwork in Cape Town

Posted on 19 March 2014 by Martin Weinel

Two members of the IMGAME team went to Cape Town at the end of February to repeat an experiment on 'race', which had first been done almost exactly one year […]

Geneva IMGAMEs

Posted on 18 March 2014 by Robert Evans

The IMGAME project was in Switzerland from Monday 10 March to Wednesday 12 March as guests of the University of Geneva's Confucius Institute. The visit had two main purposes: the […]

KES Programme (March 2014)

Posted on 7 March 2014 by Robert Evans

Here is the programme for the rest of March. Please note the late start on Friday 14. Fri 14 March at 2:30 pm: Interview Ethics: what respondents can and cannot […]

Harry Collins on Expertise on BBC Radio 4 ‘Start of the Week’

Posted on 11 February 2014 by Martin Weinel

Listen to Harry Collins talking about his new book 'Are We All Scientific Experts Now': click here. His main contribution starts about 13 min and 45 s into the programme.

KES Programme (Jan / Feb 2014)

Posted on 29 January 2014 by Robert Evans

Here is the programme for next month or so. 24 Jan: Christian Bueger on Expertise, STS and International Relations 31 Jan: Andy Bartlett on Replicating Surveys and the Imitation Game […]

IMGAME Project Report

Posted on 29 January 2014 by Robert Evans

The IMGAME project runs for 5 years from June 2011. We have recently had to supply a mid-term report to the European Research Council that summarises our progress to date. […]

Granada – Playing IMGAMEs with Groups

Posted on 27 January 2014 by Martin Weinel

The IMGAME team went to Granada, Spain, in early November 2013 to play an Imitation Game on gender. We wanted to find out how well females were able to pretend […]

SEESHOP 8: Call for Papers

Posted on 14 January 2014 by Martin Weinel

SEESHOP8 — Kitchener, Canada, 9-12 June 2014 — Call for Papers Hello everyone, and a happy new year. We have dates for next year's SEESHOP -- SEESHOP8 -- which will […]

Hawk-Eye article in The Conversation

Posted on 2 January 2014 by Robert Evans

An article by Harry Collins about the Hawk-Eye line-calling system has just been published in ''The Conversation.' The article summarises the analysis published in peer-reviewed journals and highlights the benefits […]

Imitation Game – Trondheim

Posted on 2 January 2014 by Martin Weinel

The IMGAME team went to Trondheim, Norway in early November to conduct another Imitation Game on religiosity. The main aim was to find out how well non-Christian students were able […]