I am the communications officer for Open Lab, and work with our researchers to communicate about their work. I love to come up with exciting and concise ways to tell a story whether that’s through a short blog, a tweet, a press release or creating new website copy.
Email - Emily.Barker@newcastle.ac.uk
This project aims to explore Self-Organised Learning Environments (SOLEs)* as a safe learning environment at university to mitigate the impacts of young refugees and asylum seekers’ (YRAS) difficulty accessing formal education and in the early stages of joining formal education.
Exploring the integration of scent technology across various contexts while emphasising the role of citizen engagement in shaping olfactory interactions.
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.
This workshop explores how companion animals are represented in civic discourse; identifying how we can ensure their online representation matches the values of the companion animal, not just the human caregiver.
Exploring how dialogue and collaboration can shape responsible, community-driven technology projects for a more impactful future in Digital Civics.
This project aims to explore the intersection of ethics and participatory design to foster sustainable and community-driven practices in digital civics.
This project explores digital technology to ascertain student opinion on outside spaces in schools.
This project aims at exploring Self-Organised Learning Environments (SOLEs)* as a safe learning environment at university to mitigate the impacts of young refugees and asylum seekers’ (YRAS) difficulty to access to formal education and in early stages of joining formal education.
This Tabletop Role-Playing Game (TTRPG) asked people to look beyond the homogeneous view of older adults.
This study explores adolescents' design of social robots as response to issues they see in their local communities.
This project takes a closer look at arts in HCI. It shows that practices go beyond prominent realms such as sketching for UX Design and design probes from participants and involve a variety of arts-based expressions by researchers, the researched and third parties, e.g. graphic facilitators.
The project explores arts engagement and digital technology to foster sharing of stories, feedback and comments in an independent library. It also explores how this can increase engagement with the historical information and other offers by such a library.
With workplace buildings becoming increasingly sensor-rich environments and amidst climate change and global pandemic pressures, there is novel opportunity for utilizing climatic data within buildings for awareness and wellbeing purposes.
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.
This project will help children be safer around our roads.
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.
Tyne and Wear Metro customers are getting a new opportunity to shape the future of the service.
A new £9M research centre that will allow citizens across the country to grasp the possibilities of the digital revolution has been announced.
How can we better co-design and prototype emerging technology with communities at the centre?
