Dear PhD-Design colleagues,

Please see below a call for postgraduate (Master’s and PhD) applicants for
a workshop we are holding on the topic of empathy, trust and digital
technologies on the 9th September in Leeds, UK. The call is open to
research students from any discipline, and I imagine (and hope!) there
will be interest from design researchers here.

We are paying a contribution of at least £300 towards travel and
accommodation for the one-day event, which is being held as part of a
two-day conference for the Research Council UK funded ‘EMoTICON’ (Empathy,
Trust and Communicating Online) and ‘Digital Personhood’ networks.

Application deadline is the 31st of July (3 weeks time).

Please do forward this to anyone who may be interested - and don’t
hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.


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Are you a Master’s or Doctoral researcher based in the UK or EU, with an
interest or passion for the relationship between empathy, trust and
technology? If so, we would love you to apply for our workshop to be held
in Leeds, UK, on the 9th of September 2015. We will even pay towards your
travel and overnight accommodation to come and take part!

Key information:

Deadline for applications (via website): 31st July 2015
Notifications of acceptance: 3rd August 2015
Date of workshop: 9th September 2015 (10am start time)
Venue of workshop: Hinsley Hall, Leeds

Workshop website: https://openlab.ncl.ac.uk/emoticon/

The ways in which empathy is manifest and trust developed in social
situations, and interrelated issues such as credibility, rapport, and
sense of identity, are established areas of enquiry in a variety of
disciplines. However, less research has addressed the specific ways in
which these appear within, and subsequently shape, online communities and
environments. Social media spaces are increasingly being used by all sorts
of local, national and global actors, including friendship groups,
charities, small businesses, local communities, communities of interest
and practice, university alumni associations, criminal networks and
multinational corporations. Furthermore, a generation of young people is
growing to adulthood in a world in which digital interactions and
transactions are normal, ubiquitous and mundane. Digital forms of empathy
may be key to translating across, and transcending, national, geographic,
cultural, linguistic and other conventionally-assumed barriers to
community building.

The EMoTICON Network invites postgraduate researchers to participate in a
one-day workshop exploring issues such as those above as well as related
challenges to do with empathy and trust and digital technologies. The
workshop is being held as part of a two-day event for the EMoTICON
(Empathy and Trust in Communications Online) and Digital Personhood
Networks. The aim of the workshop is three-fold:


* To provide an opportunity for postgraduate researchers who are early in
their career to meet with more senior members of the UK research community
who have a shared interest in empathy, trust and technology.
* To promote interdisciplinary discussion, dialogue and collaborative
exploration around future challenges related to empathy and trust for
individuals and societies.
* To allow postgraduates to share their research with other researchers –
be this the findings of their research, early insights coming from their
work, or the questions, challenges and problems that motivate their work.


We are making our call for applicants open to researchers from any
disciplinary background – the only requirement is that applicants are
currently registered as a postgraduate student and actively conducting
research that is broadly relevant to issues of empathy and/or trust and
digital technology. We will pay a contribution of at least £300 towards
your travel (standard class return rail fare or coach travel) and
overnight accommodation in Leeds for the evening before and/or after the
workshop. We will provide refreshments throughout the day and dinner on
the evening of the workshop. We will provide refreshments throughout the
day and dinner on the evening of the workshop.

For full details, please see the workshop website
(https://openlab.ncl.ac.uk/emoticon/). If you have any questions at all,
please check our frequently asked questions page
(https://openlab.ncl.ac.uk/emoticon/faq/). If that doesn’t provide an
answer don’t hesitate to contact John Vines ([log in to unmask]), who is
leading the organisation of the workshop.

If you would like to apply to participate, then please head on over to our
application page (https://openlab.ncl.ac.uk/emoticon/apply/).


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