Warning: Our resident ‘time travel’ expert, Dr Jon Seaton, provides here a slightly tongue-in-cheek evaluation of the effect of Brexit on the cost of time travel. For many students starting University – the prospect of sitting down to a tried and trusted TV favourite may just be the right thing to relax to – afterRead more
One of my guilty pleasures is watching repeats of ‘Bullseye’ on Challenge. It’s a northerner thing. Like the many millions who watched the gameshow in the ’80s and ’90s, I fondly remember tuning in every Sunday. It was proper entertainment for the family. Harmless fun that caused no offence to anyone. Or did it? AsRead more
It seems like not a day goes by at the moment without a news headline about how the use of AI and/or robots are transforming the economy and society, or are likely to result in large-scale job losses for certain types of worker. Just recently John Harris wrote in The Guardian about the possibility that AI-enhancedRead more
On the 2nd April, Araz Zirar and I (Ursula Davis, pictured below with Dr Choudhary and Professor Shankar, front row middle) had the opportunity to visit the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi. Our host was the newly appointed Honorary Visiting Professor in Decision Sciences, Professor Ravi Shankar, and what a wonderful and attentiveRead more
Over the years, academics and practitioners have been heavily debating the understanding of holistic measures such as customer experience. Whilst practitioners argue that academics complicate these measures; academics, on the other hand, think the industry is not handling such measures correctly. Let’s take a second to understand this debate below: How many times in aRead more
This Blog post, written by Dr Jon Seaton, can be read in full on The Conversation’s blog site. “The cost Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s nuptials on May 19 2018 has been estimated at £32m by one wedding planning company. The cost to the public, however, will be far less than his brother William’s marriage to CatherineRead more
A cross-departmental and schools team from the School of Science and School of Business and Economics received a Teaching Innovation Award (TIA) to investigate how the use of lecture capture can be improved. Lecture capture is very useful to students to review information or to catch up on a session that they may have missed. Read more
Digital technologies are increasingly being used for social innovation and entrepreneurship in which the focus is on solving pressing societal problems of our time. Reducing carbon footprint, increasing equity in the delivery of quality education and healthcare services and increasing gender equity are some of the challenges that are being tackled at scale by digitalRead more
This Blog post was written by Dr Jon Seaton. Anyone who has watched the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe instalment of Avengers: Infinity War will have some understanding of the impact great power has on those around you. For Thanos, accumulating the six infinity stones might be the best way to dominate the Universe, but for theRead more
Can non-traditional energy services and transactions provide a fair and flexible route towards alleviating fuel poverty and reducing carbon emissions? Distinguished speakers, spanning several sectors of the energy system, joined the EnTraNTS and FlexiNET Team to deliver a conference addressing that very question. Contributions in the relevant literature and divisions of the industry, as highlightedRead more