The Digital Investigations Lab (DIL) is an interdisciplinary research group that brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, activist collectives, non-profits, and newsrooms to share, discuss and critically reflect on the investigative tools and techniques they use in their work. From mapping environmental crimes or military violence to identifying disinformation networks or political lobbying, the DIL examines the particular challenges and possibilities presented by the digital across varying investigative and disciplinary contexts.

Through a programme of events, training workshops, and collaborative research, it facilitates a forum for co-learning and collaboration, linking digital researchers across King’s with a wider community of practitioners in London and further afield. In doing so, the DIL supports its members to explore situated understandings of expertise, methods, and sources at a moment where their definitions are shifting and unstable.

The DIL has been initiated as part of Assembling Certainty, an AHRC Catalyst-funded project led by Dr David Young in collaboration with Dr Josh Bowsher (University of Sussex) and Airwars.