The digital civics exchange event brought together students from around the world. These students worked with local researchers and community partners to undertake projects focused on societal challenges.
We worked with Happy Mums and other community-based organisations to explore opportunities and challenges for service design of maternal mental health services in the North East and North Cumbria.
We talked with Lenia Margariti and Caroline Claisse about the workshop they ran on Human Building Interaction (HBI) and Design for Climate Change at the DIS conference 2024 at IT University, Copenhagen-DK.
This in-person symposium showcases UK research from all six EPSRC funded Next Stage Digital Economy Centres, which DIGITLab is one of. DIGITLab focuses upon the adoption of digital technology for digital innovation, clean growth and resilience.
Innovation Fellows Sebastian Prost and Henry Collingham talk about how they created the Sustainability Reflection Cards to help unpack and understand sustainability holistically to help inform responsible research.
What would platform governance look like if users affected by it could get a seat at the table to design the policies that will govern their social media experience? We talked with Innovation Fellow Carolina Are.
We talked with Ian Johnson and Vasilis Vlachokyriakos about their new work on Civic Probes.
Researchers Caro Claisse, Mabel Lie and Zaneta Karchnakova talk about their experience of working with a group of Czech-Slovak Roma women to co-create an antenatal care community information resource.
We talked with Innovation Fellow Gavin Wood about his work inside social virtual reality and the Metaverse.
While our starting efforts with the CDC were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, in 2022 the Centre really began to come to life. Find out what we've been up to over the last year.
Innovation Fellow Carolina Are talks about presenting her research on 'automated powerlessness' on online platforms such as Instagram and TikTok at international conferences.
Tyne and Wear Metro customers are getting a new opportunity to shape the future of the service.
We talked with Innovation Fellow Martin King about his work on minipublics - citizen assemblies, citizen juries and online deliberation.
We talked with the Well Citizen Challenge Area team about their project with the Recovery College Collective (ReCoCo), developing understanding of peer support and lived experience of mental health through visual-based and co-creation research.
Last month Dr Dawn Branley-Bell, one of our Centre for Digital Citizens’ Innovation Fellows, delivered an invited guest talk at the WFH (World Federation of Hemophilia) World Congress in Montreal, Canada.