An exploration of male-to-female sexting behaviours and the digital mediation of intimacy, consent, risk, and trust Principal investigators: Rikke Amundsen. In line with the increasing digital mediation, sending & receiving of private sexual images & texts – ‘sexting’ has become a common means to perform intimacy. Project status: Ongoing
Computational Corpus Annotation for Quantitative Analysis of Latin Lexical Semantics (COALA) Principal investigators: Barbara McGillivray. The project will automate the process of annotating Latin texts with meaning information, enabling analysis of how word meanings have evolved over 2000 years. Project status: Ongoing
Creative AI Lab The Creative AI Lab explores artistic and curatorial practices and surfaces in which ways these practices approach AI. Project status: Ongoing
datatesting: co-developing computational methods for socially evaluating public data infrastructures Principal investigators: Jonathan Gray, Elena Simperl. datatesting brings together researchers to co-develop interdisciplinary methods for assessing the state of public data in relation to civil society concerns. Project status: Ongoing
Forestscapes Principal investigators: Jonathan Gray, Maud Borie, Liliana Bounegru. Exploring generative arts-based methods for recomposing collections of sound to support collective inquiry into forests as living cultural landscapes. Project status: Ongoing
Generative AI for critical engagement with the literature Principal investigators: Jelena Dzakula-Fuller. This project explores the potential of genAI tools for student engagement with sources ranging from academic literature to industry reports and media stories Project status: Ongoing
Impact assessment and climate adaptation: Age UK Lambeth Principal investigators: Fatima Wang. Improving charity communications about climate change resilience. Project status: Ongoing
KingsCAT: Capture and Analysis Tool for Social Media Research at King’s College London Principal investigators: Liliana Bounegru, Jonathan Gray. KingsCAT is an instance of the open source 4CAT: Capture and Analysis Toolkit set up to support interdisciplinary and collaborative social media research. Project status: Ongoing
LGBTQ+ policymaking in the UK Principal investigators: Dr Zeena Feldman. Establishing an interdisciplinary network of academic, policymaking, and civil society stakeholders to address the policy needs of the UK’s LGBTQ+ population. Project status: Ongoing
Menstrual Cycle Awareness and Embodied Technologies Principal investigators: Rikke Amundsen, Laura Gibson. Menstrual cycle awareness. Project status: Ongoing
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21 November 2025 COMMENT: Can you really talk to the dead using AI? We tried out 'deathbots' so you don't have to Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used to preserve the voices and stories of the…
20 Jan Expanding PREMOVE: An LLM-Assisted Semantic Annotation of Preverbs Across Historical and Modern Languages 20 January 2026 The presentation will focus both on the resource itself and on the methodological framework behind…
20 Jan Book Launch: Global South Creator Cultures – Tugce Bidav & Smith Mehta 20 January 2026 Join us for a book launch event for Global South Creator Cultures (Routledge, 2025), co-edited by…