Success for Digital Futures Empowering school pupils to critically engage with digital technologies and career options.
Baby Machines: Or, How to Hold Your Infant in the Industrial Age Principal investigators: Adelene Buckland. The first history of the 'artificial mother'. Project status: Ongoing
Creator Pedagogy in the Platform Age: Mapping Skills, Labour, and Professional Pathways Principal investigators: Tuğçe Bidav. This project investigates the emergence of “creator pedagogy”, designed to train individuals for careers within and beyond social media. Project status: Ongoing
Crypto Without Borders: Investigating Stablecoin Adoption in Humanitarian Crisis Principal investigators: Margie Cheesman, Rory Crew. This project addresses the use of stablecoins in humanitarian aid at a time of unprecedented funding constraints across the sector. 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
Decoding Difference A sound and light installation using data that was captured in real-time reflecting changes in the artist’s blood glucose levels and heartbeat. Project status: Ongoing
Deloneliness The pioneering design of a smart system with wearable products that measure and combat loneliness in older adults. 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
GLoW3: Global Leadership of Women in Web 3.0 Principal investigators: Sarah Atkinson. Foregrounding contributions of women, non-binary and trans individuals to the conceptualisation, commercialisation and creative potential of Web 3.0. Project status: Ongoing
Institutional Stewardship & the Politics of AI: Public media infrastructures, custodianship and cultural rights Principal investigators: Giota Alevizou. This project examines how public media and knowledge institutions with a public or commons remit navigate the responsibilities that accompany AI systems. Project status: Ongoing
Interface Principal investigators: Fay Bound-Alberti. Asking critical questions about the meanings of the human face in the past and in the present - what is a face? And why does it matter? Project status: Ongoing