Final seminar in a series on 'Forced Migration and Digital Technologies: (Dis)continuities in Actors and Power Relations'. Seminar abstract: Who is the subject of human rights? This concern, which has been at the heart of postcolonial and feminist critiques on liberal human rights, has a renewed importance in the literature of algorithmic governance, where anxieties about the loss of human agency and autonomy are prevalent.

The U.S. unemployment insurance (UI) system operates as a federal-state partner- ship, where states have considerable autonomy to decide on specific rules. While it could allow states to efficiently tailor their UI generosity level to local economic condi- tions, it could also generate racial inequality as states with a larger Black population appear to set stricter rules. Do the differences in state UI rules create racial inequal- ity, and are they are efficient?

The right research engagement can change the world. But how does it happen? Hear from 3 key perspectives and ask all your questions on media engagement to renowned former BBC Science Editor and front-line journalist David Shukman, Oxford Smith School Head of Strategic Communications Lucy Erickson, and Dr Alice Watson, ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellow, whose work investigates public engagement with media and popular culture including through podcasts and radio