IAS workshops
The Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) facilitates a range of researcher-led interdisciplinary workshops.
Using Nitrous Oxide to improve Symptoms in Treatment-Resistant-Depression
Tuesday 18 March 2025
Bringing together experts from various disciplines, including mental health, anaesthesiology, pharmacology, neurobiology, and clinical trial design, this workshop will be exploring potential funding sources and partnerships with healthcare institutions, ensuring a sustainable pathway for future research and application.
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Workshop Leader: Dr Kiranpreet Gill, Psychology
This workshop will take place in Elm House, on our Edgbaston campus. To find out more about this workshop please email V.T.Bejai@bham.ac.uk.
How Machines Can Save Democracy: Digital Deliberation, HMI & AI Dialogue
Tuesday 25 March 2025
At a time of growing political polarisation, misinformation, and declining public trust in democratic institutions, technology presents both challenges and opportunities for democratic governance. This workshop will bring together leading academics, policymakers, and civic tech innovators to explore how AI and digital deliberation tools can support inclusive, meaningful, and constructive public discourse.
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Workshop Leader: Dr Martin Wählisch, School of Government
This workshop will take place at our Edgbaston campus. To find out more about this workshop please email V.T.Bejai@bham.ac.uk.
Frontiers in Imaging: Particles to Patient
Friday 4 April 2025
This workshop aims to bring together researchers from a broad range of related disciplines across the University of Birmingham, along with clinical scientists and imaging experts from Birmingham hospitals to develop ideas and strategies towards funding and enhancing imaging research and translation in Birmingham.
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Workshop Leader(s): Professor Roy Bicknell, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences /Dr James Guggenheim, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences.
This workshop will take place at our Edgbaston campus. To find out more about this workshop please email V.T.Bejai@bham.ac.uk.
Intuitive Moral Pedagogies: A Speculative Action-Oriented Workshop
Tuesday 20 May 2025
This workshop aims to establish a forum for speculative, action-oriented and trans-disciplinary inquiry which can generate case studies that can catalyse research into new forms of “intuitive pedagogy” and to explore what a learning design for moral intuition might actually look like in practice.
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Workshop Leader: Dr Jeremy Kidwell, Department of Theology and Religion.
This workshop will take place at our Edgbaston campus. To find out more about this workshop please email V.T.Bejai@bham.ac.uk.