Technology and Society at Surrey

Sazana is a Research Fellow on the Eurostudents project. She is also conducting research on the increasingly important role of social media in facilitating student mobility from India. She has recently completed a project focused on postgraduate-level student migration from India to Germany. The study draws on interviews with Indians currently studying in Germany and a […]

Anastasia is an ECR at the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP). She has recently been interested in images of good and/or sustainable lives, particularly in mundane media such as films, photographs, and Instagram posts. As these images support us in creating our own understandings of what kind of lives are desirable, they play a […]

Doris’ research has recently looked at how the prompt:response turns of a commercial chatbot can be improved to make the bot easier to interact with and customers more likely to complete a sales interaction to completion. This research was born out of a consultancy project with Account Management Limited Online, a commercial chatbot development company in […]

Wednesday 10th February 2021. Keywords in Technology and Society is the 2021 Speaker Series for the University of Surrey’s cutting-edge research theme – Technology and Society. Through nine editions in 2021, we will bring to you highlights of Surrey research across our three faculties, and two editions hosting external experts. Each of the nine editions […]

The ESRC Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN), based in the Sociology Department, has been developing a technique called Participatory System Mapping (PSM). PSM involves the collaborative construction of a causal map of a policy domain by a group of stakeholders. The map consists of nodes, which represent the important variables in the […]

Professor Iis Tussyadiah, School of Hospitality and Tourism Management. Professor Iis Tussyadiah is curating the Collection on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics in Tourism, which contains articles on AI, robotics, and automation published in Annals of Tourism Research, a top-ranked journal in the field. In a review article accompanying the launch of the Collection, Iis discusses the need to prepare the […]