Dr Barbara Neuhofer and Professor Adele Ladkin will present their research Going ‘off-grid’: connectivity during leisure travel at the one symposium Beyond Balance in London on Monday 27th June
10am-5pm, Mon 27th June 2016, Savoy Place London
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This event is co-hosted by Communications & IT Policy panels of The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) at their newly refurbished headquarters in Savoy Place, WC2R 0BL. Nearest tube: Embankment.
| 9:30am | Arrival & Registration | |
| 10:00am | Introductions & Aims of the Day | Dr Rosie Robison (Balance Network & Global Sustainability Institute) & IET President Naomi Climer |
| 10:15am | Keynote: Work/Life Symbiosis | Claire Fox – Global HR Director at Save the Children International and author |
| 11:15am | Tea & Coffee | Networking and legacy funding information available |
| 11:40am | Mobile technologies & business travellers (lecture theatre) | Dr Donald Hislop (Loughborough University) & Prof Jonathan Beaverstock (University of Bristol) lead a policy-focused presentation and reflections by business travellers on the experience of mobile work. |
| 11:40am | Material desires: design & WLB (interactive session) | Paulina Yurman (Goldsmiths, University of London) will run this interactive session describing her workshop Material Desires, using design-led activities to explore themes around the juggling of identities and the home/work divide. |
| 12:20pm | Going ‘off-grid’: connectivity during leisure travel (lecture theatre) | Dr Barbara Neuhofer & Prof Adele Ladkin (Bournemouth University) lead an interactive session to debate the challenges of ‘switching-off’ when on holiday. |
| 12:20pm | E-resilience: what’s the solution? (interactive session) | Dr Christine Grant (Coventry University) and Professor Gail Kinman (University of Bedford) from the Switched On Culture Research Group invite discussion following their April conference. |
| 1:00pm | Lunch | With networking discussions |
| 1:55pm | Daily life, digital technologies and energy demand (lecture theatre) | Dr Rachel Macrorie (Urban Institute, University of Sheffield) chairs a discussion of the Rhythms, Routines & Relationships working paper series with panel members from academia, policy and business. |
| 1:55pm | Reconceptualising work-life boundaries (interactive session) | Dr Helen Roby (OU), Prof Gillian Symon (Royal Holloway), Dr Rebecca Whiting (Birkbeck) & Dr Petros Chamakiotis (University of Sussex) screen videos from their interdisciplinary Digital Brain Switch project, followed by discussion. |
| 2:40pm | Crowdsourcing: prolonging working life (lecture theatre) | Dr Sally-Anne Barnes (University of Warwick) leads this interactive session on how ICT-enabled opportunities, such as crowdsourcing, are allowing older people to extend their working lives. |
| 2:40pm | How to life-swap with personal data (interactive session) | Dr Rowanne Fleck (University of Birmingham) and Dr Anya Skatova (University of Warwick) run a workshop using data collected prior to and during event. How might personal data swapping help us gain insight into our behaviour? |
| 3:20pm | Tea & Coffee | Networking and legacy funding information available |
| 3:45pm | Keynote: Against Productivity | Oliver Burkeman – author of the Guardian’s This Column Will Change Your Life and author |
| 4:45pm | Closing remarks | Dr David Kirk (Newcastle University & Balance Network) |
| 5:00pm | Drinks |