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27/05 3pm-5pm: Doing Open Social Science

cim Resource — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 12:42:58 GMT

When: 3pm - 5pm, Wed, 27 May '26

Where: REX 1 & 2, Wolfson Exchange, library

'Doing Open Social Science' introduces and explains open science practices in ways relevant for all social science disciplines and appropriate for the discipline group as a whole. The book seeks to guide readers through how open science methods can be incorporated into all aspects of the research life cycle, aiming to help motivate a cultural shift to open approaches. A key point of the book is that it asks what open science means in the context of the social sciences as a whole – rather than simply importing isolated practices from STEMM fields, or addressing only narrow discipline-specific audiences in the most quantitative areas of the discipline group.

06/05 4pm-5pm: The place of justice in legal design

cim Resource — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 12:41:32 GMT

When: 4pm - 5pm, Wed, 06 May '26

Where: REX 1 & 2, Wolfson Exchange, library

Legal design argues for incorporating design-based methods to address problems in legal systems. It advocates for user centricity, plain language,  experimentation in how the law is developed, circulated, and used. In this presentation, I will draw from my research and practice in legal design, to explore what legal design brings to address structural injustices in society, and if and how it can address barriers to access to justice. Access to justice, as a concept, is multi-faceted and includes symbolic, locational, linguistic, informational, and financial components. It is a concept critical to ensure the participation of people in decision-making processes, greater transparency in terms of the ability to understand procedures, and accountability through holding different agencies of the State responsible. I will draw from my experiences of running Justice Adda , a law and design social venture in India, as well as from a teaching lab in The Netherlands to reflect on the potential and limitations of legal design as an approach. I hope to use the presentation to discuss with colleagues about how to develop academic outputs from my practice.

06/05 3pm-4pm: Environmental Policy Narratives

cim Resource — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 12:39:53 GMT

When: 3pm - 4pm, Wed, 06 May '26

Where: REX 1 & 2, Wolfson Exchange, library

Exploring ‘policy narratives’ is a growing area of research and practice. ‘Narratives’ are ways of framing language to “promote or prioritise particular ideas or values”. Documenting and extracting meaning from these narratives in environmental domains requires the integration of theory and practice across a range of disciplines as well as an understanding of how knowledge and perspectives from diverse stakeholders interact within decision-making contexts. This contribution reflects on the power and potential of narratives from three recent activities: 1) working to support blue-green infrastructure decision-making at metropolitan scale in Santiago, Chile; 2) exploring green space narratives in London, UK and Melbourne, Australia; and 3) discussing narrative construction in environmental policy fiction with staff and students at UCL.