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RuowenXu

Dr Ruowen Xu

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research interests

  • Accounting & Financial Management

Biography

Ruowen Xu is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at King's Business School. Ruowen works with Professor Alexandru Preda and Dr Julie Valk on the ESRC project ‘Professional Hybridisations and Epistemic Practices of Cryptocapital: An Ethnographic Investigation of Cryptoasset Firms’.

Ruowen obtained her PhD degree at Warwick Business School, United Kingdom. Her research studies credit rating systems and more specifically, looks at how a new form of modelling work in big data and machine learning technology is being adapted to form credit scoring algorithms. Drawing on inter-disciplinary insights, combining sociology and organizational theory, she investigates the social construction of big data and more broadly AI technology,  and their outcome in auditing consumers in the marketplace.

Research

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Professional Hybridisations and Epistemic Practices of Cryptocapital: An Ethnographic Investigation of Cryptoasset Firms

We investigate professional collaborations involving software engineers and finance professionals in blockchain firms.

Project status: Completed

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FinWork Futures

Investigating the future of financial work and new technologies for the financial professions

Events

25MayFinworkBlockChainConferenceCover

FinWork Blockchain: Web3.0 Societies. Cultural Configurations of Technofinancial Capitalism

A conference organised by the ESRC project Professional Hybridisations and Epistemic Practices of Cryptocapital and the Future of Financial Work (FinWork)...

Please note: this event has passed.

13Sep8th floor Bush House

Panel & Networking: Law, Financial Services & Digital Assets

Join us for the next of these cross-faculty events, drawing on the collaboration between Law, Financial Services & Digital Assets.

Please note: this event has passed.

Research

Blockchain news image 780px
Professional Hybridisations and Epistemic Practices of Cryptocapital: An Ethnographic Investigation of Cryptoasset Firms

We investigate professional collaborations involving software engineers and finance professionals in blockchain firms.

Project status: Completed

accounting-finance-begins-at-kings-hero
FinWork Futures

Investigating the future of financial work and new technologies for the financial professions

Events

25MayFinworkBlockChainConferenceCover

FinWork Blockchain: Web3.0 Societies. Cultural Configurations of Technofinancial Capitalism

A conference organised by the ESRC project Professional Hybridisations and Epistemic Practices of Cryptocapital and the Future of Financial Work (FinWork)...

Please note: this event has passed.

13Sep8th floor Bush House

Panel & Networking: Law, Financial Services & Digital Assets

Join us for the next of these cross-faculty events, drawing on the collaboration between Law, Financial Services & Digital Assets.

Please note: this event has passed.