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Prof Dr Sigrid Hartong and M.A. Nina Brandau are organising a summer school at the HSU Hamburg, which will take place from September 18-20, 2023. The summer school offers a forum for emerging scholars (PhD students and Postdocs) to systematically engage with different methods of qualitative research in/of/through algorithmic environments. Besides input on different research...

Together with Mathias Decuypere and Karmijn van de Oudeweetering, Prof. Dr. Sigrid Hartong published a special issue of the European Educational Research Journal. The issue called “Space- and time-making in education: Towards a topological lens” is concerned with the research approach of (social) topology. This approach has its origins in the field of mathematics, but...

On September 15 and 16, 2022, the workshop „PREGOV III (PREdictive GOVernance) – Towards Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Algorithmic Prediction & Decision-Making” is taking place for the third time as part of an international workshop series focusing on predictive governance. The main topics addressed at this year’s workshop are:1.) Organizational-theoretical perspectives on the topic of predictive...

This week, Prof. Dr. Sigrid Hartong, Dr. Karola Cafantaris, Annina Förschler and Nina Brandau are participating in the international workshop “Unpacking the ‘In-Between’”. The workshop was organised by Prof. Geiss and Prof. Röhl (University Zürich) and Prof. Hartong. The workshop focuses on the so-called “Intermediaries in the Digital Transformation of Schooling”, a topic that Sigrid...

Building on our first meeting in 2020, we are happy to announce that a second workshop will take place next week, September 17 and 18, 2021. The upcoming PreGov II workshop continues to explore the increasing digitalization of public governance and how new forms of datafication, quantification, and automation enable governments and other powerful stakeholders...