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18/06/2008: ESRC: 18th–20th June 2008: 4th International Conference on e-Social Science

Wednesday, 18 Jun 2008 09:39
After the success of the 3rd International Conference on e-Social Science that was run in collaboration with the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in October 2007, the conference is returning to Manchester for Summer 2008. The aim of the conference on e-Social Science is to bring together leading international representatives of the social science, e-Infrastructure/ cyberinfrastructure and e-Research communities in order to improve mutual awareness, harmonize understanding and instigate coordinated activities to accelerate research, development and deployment of powerful, new research methods and tools for the social sciences and beyond.

The conference is being held at Manchester Conference Centre, University of Manchester.

For further information contact: katy.middlebrough@ncess.ac.uk
For more information visit: http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/

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