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CPPR Lunchtime Seminar

Dr Sam Sellar from Manchester Metropolitan University explores Business Intelligence (BI) systems in an education policy context.

New cognitive infrastructures are emerging with recent developments in artificial intelligence and its integration into the pervasive media ecologies we now inhabit.

Business Intelligence (BI) systems that enable planning and decision-making based on data analytics are part of these ecologies. BI is underpinned by multiple elements, from user interfaces that enable data visualization to data warehouses and cloud computing platforms with artificial intelligence capabilities.

This seminar will report on a case study of an education policy unit (‘The Centre’) in an Australian state education department that has been implementing a BI strategy since 2013. Dr Sellar will draw on technical documentation and interview data to describe the enactment of this strategy, in order to illustrate how automated thinking is emerging as a new data-driven policy rationality.

He will also offer a new theoretical perspective on automated thinking and data science in education policy contexts.

Event details

2/1, Waterloo Bridge Wing
Franklin-Wilkins Building
Franklin-Wilkins Building, Stamford Street London, SE1 9NH