The second of two Kellogg Colloquia for Hilary Term 2016, we will have two speakers talking about their work relating to knowledge work and how it affects social justice and equality.

Our first speaker will be Sophie Sun Ping, a third year visiting doctoral student who is supervised by Dr Jenny Chan (Kellogg College/Oxford SIAS) and Professor Jack Qiu (Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong). Her research interest concerns new media, ICT and digital labour, where she will give a talk about how knowledge workers, specifically IT programmers, in China identify themselves as ‘manong’ (roughly translates to ‘code monkeys’) and how this might affect self-identity as well as social equality in an emerging digital knowledge economy.

Our second speaker will give us a talk about a project much closer to home. Dr Anne Geniets, a senior researcher in the Department of Education at Oxford and a Research Member of Common Room at Kellogg College, is a psychologist with a research focus on health, poverty, social justice, and technology in low resource settings. Anne will tell us about ‘go_girl: code + create’, an IT Innovation Seed Fund project aiming raise the aspirations of young women from non-traditional academic backgrounds in Oxford, in part by teaching knowledge working skills such as programming and media production.

All members of Kellogg College and their guests are welcome to attend. The talks will begin at 17:30 in the Stopforth-Metcalfe Room (upstairs in no. 60 Banbury Rd.). Time for questions will follow the talk, and members of college are welcome to continue the discussions with the speaker at the Guest Night dinner from 18.45 (advance booking is required to attend the Guest Night).