AudienceAll staff and students

Service of Thanksgiving, to which all graduands and their family and friends are particularly welcome.   The Address Fu thae crocks wi watter, will be preached by Andrew Marr, Journalist and Broadcaster.

This service will take place in person and will be available to watch via livestream. See the ‘Livestreamed services’ section on our Worship web page.

Important Information:

• Face coverings must always be worn by members of the congregation during the service, unless exempt.
• All who come will be accommodated up to the chapel’s capacity. No prior reservation required.
• The collection of contact details for Test and Protect will take place on the day. You will have the option of scanning the QR Code provided using your smart phone, or leaving your contact details with the ushers.

A copy of the QR code Check In Scotland Privacy Notice can be found on our Worship web page, in the relevant documents section.

Prof Jenny Huberman
University of Missouri, Kansas City

Title: Moments are Still the Elements of Profit – The App Economy and the Digital Extraction of Surplus-Value

Abstract: Over the last two decades, while the ranks of the under and unemployed have swelled, and as the commercial demand for more precise data has skyrocketed, the smartphone task and gaming app industry has exploded. Likened to a portable Mechanical Turk, or a veritable “data enrichment” industry, apps such as Spare5, Taps for Money, InboxDollars, Cash Karma, Mistplay, Bingo Box, Solitude Cube, Swagbucks, Survey Junkie, Lifepoints, PrizeRebel, and TreasureTrooper, to name just a few, are advertised to e-commerce and AI companies as a way to get the most direct access to potential consumers, and as way to gain a “cost-effective” leg up in the “arms race in training data.” They are also presented to consumers or users as a means to “win” or “earn some money by performing simple tasks irrespective of the place where you are.” Companies propose that by downloading these apps onto smartphones users can render their “free time” economically productive. In this talk, I explore how the smartphone app industry is facilitating the digitized extraction of surplus-value. I argue that it is precisely by blurring the boundaries between work and leisure, and in many cases, “gamifying” tasks, that the app economy, which is inextricably tied to the platform economy, is able to perpetuate and extend a classic form of capitalist expropriation into the most intimate reaches of daily life. Drawing upon an analysis of some of the most popular smartphone “earning” apps, I will demonstrate that although much has changed in the era of digital capitalism, moments, as Marx recognized long ago, are still the elements of profit.

POSTPONED – A new date will be posted.

This online meeting of the School of Management’s Organisations and Society thematic research group will welcome Jeff Hyman, Honorary Professor in the School, and Chris Baldry who is Professor Emeritus in the Stirling Management School.

Professors Hyman and Baldry will present insights from their recent book, ‘Sustainable work and the environmental crisis: the link between labour and climate change’.

Their research demonstrates definite and complex connections between degraded jobs and a degraded environment. They aim to suggest alternative routes to sustainable work that supports both the natural environment and worker wellbeing.

The seminar will include time for discussion and post COP26 reflections.

Further details about the seminar have been circulated to group members.

This research seminar will welcome Professor Arito Ono from the Faculty of Commerce, Chuo University. His topic will be ‘The effect of physical collateral and personal guarantees on business startups’.

The seminar is organised jointly by the Centre for Responsible Banking and Finance (CRBF) and the Financial Institutions and Markets (FIM) research group of the School of Management.

This event is for staff of the University and students in the School, in particular those with an interest in finance and economics.

In this Roast your Supervisor research events, organised by the ModCon Research Group, Professor Gill Plain & Michela Esposito will present ‘Technology, disability and masculinity after WW2’.

The series ‘Roast your Supervisor’ will give a platform to School of English staff to present their recent research to the School community.

There is, however, a twist to these events: Following the presenter’s presentation, they will be grilled by one of their own PhD students about the topic and their research.

This turns a conversational situation which most of us are used to — namely the supervisee explaining themselves and their research to their supervisor — on its head.

Naturally, it would also be encouraged for the audience to ask some critical questions and participate as actively as possible.

The events will take place on MS Teams on a fortnightly basis on Wednesdays at 5.30pm and they will be free to attend for anyone interested.

Please e-mail Sam Haddow (jsfh@st-andrews.ac.uk) or Sandro Eich (se56@st-andrews.ac.uk) with any questions or to be added to the MS Teams channel.

In this Roast your Supervisor research events, organised by the ModCon Research Group, Dr Peter Mackay and Colin Bramwell will be in discussion.

The series ‘Roast your Supervisor’ will give a platform to School of English staff to present their recent research to the School community.

There is, however, a twist to these events: Following the presenter’s presentation, they will be grilled by one of their own PhD students about the topic and their research.

This turns a conversational situation which most of us are used to – namely the supervisee explaining themselves and their research to their supervisor – on its head.

Naturally, it would also be encouraged for the audience to ask some critical questions and participate as actively as possible.

The events will take place on MS Teams on a fortnightly basis on Wednesdays at 5.30pm and they will be free to attend for anyone interested.

Please email Sam Haddow (jsfh@st-andrews.ac.uk) or Sandro Eich (se56@st-andrews.ac.uk) with any questions or to be added to the MS Teams channel.

This online meeting of the School of Management’s Organisations and Society thematic research group has been rescheduled from December 2021. In this session, the group will welcome Jeff Hyman, Honorary Professor in the School, and Chris Baldry who is Professor Emeritus in the Stirling Management School.

They will present insights from their recent book, ‘Sustainable work and the environmental crisis:
the link between labour and climate change’.

Their research demonstrates definite and complex connections between degraded jobs and a degraded environment. They aim to suggest alternative routes to sustainable work that supports both the natural environment and worker wellbeing.

The seminar will include time for discussion and post COP26 reflections.

Further details about the seminar have been circulated to group members.

This online meeting of the School of Management’s Accounting, Governance and Organisations thematic research group (AGOG) will welcome Dr Aisling Crean, Learning Technologist with the Centre for Educational Enhancement and Development (CEED).

Dr Crean will present her research, ‘Do corporations have a duty to be trustworthy?’, which explores the moral duties of corporations who have been facing a crisis of trust since the global financial crisis of 2008. The work emerged from postdoctoral research at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, where she worked on British Academy funded projects on trust and trustworthiness in corporations.

Further details about the seminar have been circulated to group members.

This research seminar will welcome Dr Livia Pancotto from the University of Strathclyde. Her topic will be ‘Gender diversity in bank boardroom and green lending: Evidence from euro area credit register data’.

The seminar is organised jointly by the Centre for Responsible Banking and Finance (CRBF) and the Financial Institutions and Markets (FIM) research group of the School of Management.

This event is for staff of the University and students in the School, in particular those with an interest in finance and economics.