MS SDM Monthly Seminar Series: Designing Space as a Market Device
Featuring Dr Liz McFall with Dr Evren Uzer as discussant
In Person: 66 5th Ave New York, Room 603
Or Zoom with link here
Dr Liz McFall is the Director of Data Civics Program and Chancellor’s Fellow based in the Edinburgh Futures Institute and Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. Serving as the (Founding) Editor in Chief of the Journal of Cultural Economy, she has published extensively on life and health insurance. Her recent research has focused on the emergence of insurtech and data-driven innovations including personalization and self-tracking. She was recently a member of the General Data Ethics expert panel of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA). In 2020, she edited a special issue of the Journal Big Data and Society focused on data, behaviour, and innovation. Her books include Markets and the Arts of Attachment (Routledge 2017), Devising Consumption: Cultural Economies of Insurance, Credit and Spending (Routledge 2014) and Advertising: A Cultural Economy (Sage 2004).