Centre for Digital Citizens - Next Stage Digital Economy Centre
Lead Research Organisation:
Newcastle University
Department Name: Sch of Computing
Abstract
The Centre for Digital Citizens (CDC) will address emerging challenges of digital citizenship, taking an inclusive, participatory approach to the design and evaluation of new technologies and services that support 'smart', 'data-rich' living in urban, rural and coastal communities. Core to the Centre's work will be the incubation of sustainable 'Digital Social Innovations' (DSI) that will ensure digital technologies support diverse end-user communities and will have long-lasting social value and impact beyond the life of the Centre. Our technological innovations will be co-created between academic, industrial, public and third sector partners, with citizens supporting co-creation and delivery of research. Through these activities, CDC will incubate user-led social innovation and sustainable impact for the Digital Economy (DE), at scale, in ways that have previously been difficult to achieve.
The CDC will build on a substantial joint legacy and critical mass of DE funded research between Newcastle and Northumbria universities, developing the trajectory of work demonstrated in our highly successful Social Inclusion for the Digital Economy (SIDE) hub, our Digital Civics Centre for Doctoral Training and our Digital Economy Research Centre (DERC). The CDC is a response to recent research that has challenged simplified notions of the smart urban environment and its inhabitants, and highlighted the risks of emerging algorithmic and automated futures. The Centre will leverage our pioneering participatory design and co-creative research, our expertise in digital participatory platforms and data-driven technologies, to deliver new kinds of innovation for the DE, that empowers citizens.
The CDC will focus on four critical Citizen Challenge areas arising from our prior work: 'The Well Citizen' addresses how use of shared personal data, and publicly available large-scale data, can inform citizens' self-awareness of personal health and wellbeing, of health inequalities, and of broader environmental and community wellbeing; 'The Safe Citizen' critically examines online and offline safety, including issues around algorithmic social justice and the role of new data technologies in supporting fair, secure and equitable societies;
'The Connected Citizen' explores next-generation citizen-led digital public services, which can support and sustain civic engagement and action in communities, and engagement in wider socio-political issues through new sustainable (openly managed) digital platforms; and 'The Ageless Citizen' investigates opportunities for technology-enhanced lifelong learning and opportunities for intergenerational engagement and technologies to support growth across an entire lifecourse. CDC pilot projects will be spread across the urban, rural and costal geography of the North East of England, embedded in communities with diverse socio-economic profiles and needs.
Driving our programme to address these challenges is our 'Engaged Citizen Commissioning Framework'. This framework will support citizens' active engagement in the co-creation of research and critical inquiry. The framework will use design-led 'initiation mechanisms' (e.g. participatory design workshops, hackathons, community events, citizen labs, open innovation and co-production platform experiments) to support the co-creation of research activities. Our 'Innovation Fellows' (postdoctoral researchers) will engage in a 24-month social innovation programme within the CDC. They will pilot DSI projects as part of highly interdisciplinary, multi-stakeholder teams, including academics and end-users (e.g. Community Groups, NGO's, Charities, Government, and Industry partners). The outcome of these pilots will be the development of further collaborative bids (Research Council / Innovate UK / Charity / Industry funded), venture capital pitches, spin-outs and/or social enterprises. In this way the Centre will act as a catalyst for future innovation-focused DE activity.
The CDC will build on a substantial joint legacy and critical mass of DE funded research between Newcastle and Northumbria universities, developing the trajectory of work demonstrated in our highly successful Social Inclusion for the Digital Economy (SIDE) hub, our Digital Civics Centre for Doctoral Training and our Digital Economy Research Centre (DERC). The CDC is a response to recent research that has challenged simplified notions of the smart urban environment and its inhabitants, and highlighted the risks of emerging algorithmic and automated futures. The Centre will leverage our pioneering participatory design and co-creative research, our expertise in digital participatory platforms and data-driven technologies, to deliver new kinds of innovation for the DE, that empowers citizens.
The CDC will focus on four critical Citizen Challenge areas arising from our prior work: 'The Well Citizen' addresses how use of shared personal data, and publicly available large-scale data, can inform citizens' self-awareness of personal health and wellbeing, of health inequalities, and of broader environmental and community wellbeing; 'The Safe Citizen' critically examines online and offline safety, including issues around algorithmic social justice and the role of new data technologies in supporting fair, secure and equitable societies;
'The Connected Citizen' explores next-generation citizen-led digital public services, which can support and sustain civic engagement and action in communities, and engagement in wider socio-political issues through new sustainable (openly managed) digital platforms; and 'The Ageless Citizen' investigates opportunities for technology-enhanced lifelong learning and opportunities for intergenerational engagement and technologies to support growth across an entire lifecourse. CDC pilot projects will be spread across the urban, rural and costal geography of the North East of England, embedded in communities with diverse socio-economic profiles and needs.
Driving our programme to address these challenges is our 'Engaged Citizen Commissioning Framework'. This framework will support citizens' active engagement in the co-creation of research and critical inquiry. The framework will use design-led 'initiation mechanisms' (e.g. participatory design workshops, hackathons, community events, citizen labs, open innovation and co-production platform experiments) to support the co-creation of research activities. Our 'Innovation Fellows' (postdoctoral researchers) will engage in a 24-month social innovation programme within the CDC. They will pilot DSI projects as part of highly interdisciplinary, multi-stakeholder teams, including academics and end-users (e.g. Community Groups, NGO's, Charities, Government, and Industry partners). The outcome of these pilots will be the development of further collaborative bids (Research Council / Innovate UK / Charity / Industry funded), venture capital pitches, spin-outs and/or social enterprises. In this way the Centre will act as a catalyst for future innovation-focused DE activity.
Planned Impact
The Centre for Digital Citizens (CDC) will collaborate with its large network of partners to provide routes to impact. The co-created nature of the research programme will ensure that it addresses the real-world needs of our partner organisations, from inception through to exploitation. Below we summarise key impacts that the Centre will have, split out by beneficiary:
1) Commercial / industry partners: Will benefit from direct tech-transfer from research projects; the development of new citizen data commons resources, which will have commercially exploitable value and support new kinds of digital service; ethical guidelines and best practice knowledge transfer for the design of socially inclusive and fair digital services; and new spin-out developments and social enterprise creation, designed to work collaboratively with industry partners, creating new business opportunities.
2) Venture capital funders: Will benefit from access to a new source of piloted, user-led and co-created digital technology platforms and services, available for financing and development.
3) Government: Will benefit from future public service delivery policy development. We will continue to inform Government agencies around best practice, addressing issues of digital citizenship, including local government service provision, civic engagement / consultation and urban planning. There will be tech transfer through Local Government adoption of digital platforms. We will work with cross-council authorities (North of Tyne Combined and NE LEP) to reconcile policy and service commissioning recommendations across authority boundaries.
4) Charities and third sector groups: Are underserved communities receiving relatively little support from the digital sector, often due to their budgetary constraints, yet are increasingly important for citizens to access services and experience citizenship. DERC and Digital Civics work has shown this sector offers a rich and vibrant economy that would benefit from greater adoption of digital platforms to help commission, deliver and coordinate services. New kinds of digital economies could thrive with new kinds of digital service developed through the CDC. These services will offer direct economic benefit such as cost savings, efficiencies and increased organisational reach, to charities and third sector groups.
5) Learning communities: Lifelong learning platforms developed by the CDC will provide opportunities for educational enrichment and digital skills development at a number of levels. Such opportunities will be provided within schools and beyond including reskilling post-formal education. This is likely to have an impact on the numbers of skilled people in work, and could provide numerous opportunities for older adult (including peri-retired and retired) populations.
6) Citizens and local communities: large numbers of citizens (estimated 1000+) will benefit from involvement in either social innovation pilots or the Citizen's Assembly. Pilots will be embedded in NE communities with unmet needs and whose sense of citizenship is impacted by health inequality, online harms, a lack of community infrastructure and connectivity, and limited lifecourse development opportunities. The CDC will also provide new data resources, and models of common data ownership and re-use. These will pilot direct economic benefits for citizens and provide new routes to activism and campaigning on local issues. Those using services piloted through the CDC will also receive the wellbeing benefits of more and better service access, and greater participatory voice in service development and provision.
7) DE Researchers: will benefit from Digital Social Innovation training. The pipeline of DE trained researchers will be increased, in academic, government, commercial and third sectors. With a broad range of skills, these researchers will directly contribute to the digital economy and will provide increasing levels of social innovation.
1) Commercial / industry partners: Will benefit from direct tech-transfer from research projects; the development of new citizen data commons resources, which will have commercially exploitable value and support new kinds of digital service; ethical guidelines and best practice knowledge transfer for the design of socially inclusive and fair digital services; and new spin-out developments and social enterprise creation, designed to work collaboratively with industry partners, creating new business opportunities.
2) Venture capital funders: Will benefit from access to a new source of piloted, user-led and co-created digital technology platforms and services, available for financing and development.
3) Government: Will benefit from future public service delivery policy development. We will continue to inform Government agencies around best practice, addressing issues of digital citizenship, including local government service provision, civic engagement / consultation and urban planning. There will be tech transfer through Local Government adoption of digital platforms. We will work with cross-council authorities (North of Tyne Combined and NE LEP) to reconcile policy and service commissioning recommendations across authority boundaries.
4) Charities and third sector groups: Are underserved communities receiving relatively little support from the digital sector, often due to their budgetary constraints, yet are increasingly important for citizens to access services and experience citizenship. DERC and Digital Civics work has shown this sector offers a rich and vibrant economy that would benefit from greater adoption of digital platforms to help commission, deliver and coordinate services. New kinds of digital economies could thrive with new kinds of digital service developed through the CDC. These services will offer direct economic benefit such as cost savings, efficiencies and increased organisational reach, to charities and third sector groups.
5) Learning communities: Lifelong learning platforms developed by the CDC will provide opportunities for educational enrichment and digital skills development at a number of levels. Such opportunities will be provided within schools and beyond including reskilling post-formal education. This is likely to have an impact on the numbers of skilled people in work, and could provide numerous opportunities for older adult (including peri-retired and retired) populations.
6) Citizens and local communities: large numbers of citizens (estimated 1000+) will benefit from involvement in either social innovation pilots or the Citizen's Assembly. Pilots will be embedded in NE communities with unmet needs and whose sense of citizenship is impacted by health inequality, online harms, a lack of community infrastructure and connectivity, and limited lifecourse development opportunities. The CDC will also provide new data resources, and models of common data ownership and re-use. These will pilot direct economic benefits for citizens and provide new routes to activism and campaigning on local issues. Those using services piloted through the CDC will also receive the wellbeing benefits of more and better service access, and greater participatory voice in service development and provision.
7) DE Researchers: will benefit from Digital Social Innovation training. The pipeline of DE trained researchers will be increased, in academic, government, commercial and third sectors. With a broad range of skills, these researchers will directly contribute to the digital economy and will provide increasing levels of social innovation.
Organisations
- Newcastle University (Lead Research Organisation)
- Benfield High School (Project Partner)
- Sunderland City Council (Project Partner)
- Google (United States) (Project Partner)
- Northumberland County Council (Project Partner)
- George Stephenson High School (Project Partner)
- Right Question Institute (Project Partner)
- Sunderland Software City (Project Partner)
- Youth Focus: North East (Project Partner)
- Plan Digital UK (Project Partner)
- Digital Catapult (Project Partner)
- Newcastle City Council (Project Partner)
- Great North Care Record (Project Partner)
- Northstar Ventures (Project Partner)
- Yoti Ltd (Project Partner)
- Newcastle West End Foodbank (Project Partner)
- VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (Project Partner)
- Traidcraft Exchange (Project Partner)
- Mozilla Foundation (Project Partner)
- Place Changers (Project Partner)
- Centre for Life (Project Partner)
- Workers Educational Association (Project Partner)
- Futuregov (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- International Federation of Red Cross (Project Partner)
- Northumbrian Water Group plc (Project Partner)
- VONNE (Voluntary Org Network North East) (Project Partner)
- Microsoft (India) (Project Partner)
- The Edge Foundation (Project Partner)
- British Broadcasting Corporation (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- NHS Digital (Project Partner)
- West End Schools’ Trust (WEST) (Project Partner)
- North of Tyne Combined Authority (Project Partner)
Publications
Are C
(2023)
The Emotional and Financial Impact of De-Platforming on Creators at the Margins
in Social Media + Society
Are C
(2023)
The assemblages of flagging and de-platforming against marginalised content creators
in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
Are C
(2024)
Flagging as a silencing tool: Exploring the relationship between de-platforming of sex and online abuse on Instagram and TikTok
in New Media & Society
Barika M
(2021)
Online Scheduling Technique To Handle Data Velocity Changes in Stream Workflows
in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Boland P
(2021)
A 'planning revolution' or an 'attack on planning' in England: digitization, digitalization, and democratization
in International Planning Studies
Branley-Bell D
(2023)
Chatbots for embarrassing and stigmatizing conditions: could chatbots encourage users to seek medical advice?
in Frontiers in Communication
Branley-Bell D
(2022)
Exploring Age and Gender Differences in ICT Cybersecurity Behaviour
in Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies
Brown R
(2023)
Health stigma on Twitter: investigating the prevalence and type of stigma communication in tweets about different conditions and disorders
in Frontiers in Communication
Chatting D
(2024)
The Router of All Evil: Designerly Hacking a Network of One's Own
Claisse C
(2021)
Co-Creative Visual Poetic Inquiry for communicating lived experience of HIV self-management and self-care
in Design for Health
Claisse C
(2022)
Tangible Interaction for Supporting Well-being
Collingham H
(2022)
Co-Creating a Virtuous Cycle
Johnson I
(2024)
Civic Probes: A Method That Embeds Questions of Civic Infrastructure and Participation
in Interactions
Morrison B
(2023)
Recognising Diversity in Older Adults' Cybersecurity Needs
Morrison BA
(2022)
Life after lockdown: The experiences of older adults in a contactless digital world.
in Frontiers in psychology
Ntouros V
(2021)
Designing Sharing Economy Platforms through a 'Solidarity HCI' lens
in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Olabode S
(2023)
Complex online harms and the smart home: A scoping review
in Future Generation Computer Systems
Peng H
(2021)
Streaming Social Event Detection and Evolution Discovery in Heterogeneous Information Networks
in ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data
Puussaar A
(2022)
SenseMyStreet: Sensor Commissioning Toolkit for Communities
in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Rizzoni F
(2022)
Phishing simulation exercise in a large hospital: A case study.
in Digital health
Spiliotopoulos T
(2023)
Onboarding Citizens to Digital Identity Systems.
Talbot CV
(2022)
The use of digital technologies by people with mild-to-moderate dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic: A positive technology perspective.
in Dementia (London, England)
Tsenova V
(2023)
Loci Stories: Exploring Design for Polyvocality
Zilius K
(2023)
A Dataset of Coordinated Cryptocurrency-Related Social Media Campaigns
in Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Title | Creation of animation with people with lived experience and local eating disorder charity |
Description | We developed an animation with people with lived experience of eating disorders and Eating Distress North East. |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2024 |
Impact | The animation will be disseminated by the charity. It has also been submitted, along with an accompanying short-documentary, to CHI as part of their video stream. |
Title | Dovetails |
Description | In collaboration with Beamish Museum and Kids Kabin Four ambitious woodwork projects were designed and built for permanent use by these two charity organisations, for one another. Artefacts: FlexiGames (Artefact 1) Redwood, Oak, Stainless Steel, Birch Plywood. by William, Brian & Alan Beamish Men's Group Tambour Door Cabinet (Artefact 2) Oak, Birch Plywood. by Fred, Les & Joe Beamish Men's Group Our Lucky Shelves (Artefact 3) Birch Plywood and Iroko. by Lucky (Age 14) Kids Kabin Cowgate A Secret Bench (Artefact 4) Cast Iron and Iroko. by 10 Kids Kabin Cowgate members (Ages 7-13) Exhibitions include: Documentary Film (15 Minutes): youtube.com/watch?v=Tk5jc1GT5_4 Project Celebration at Beamish Living Museum 2022 Design+ 2022 Exhibition, Northumbria Uni Participatory Design Conference (PDC) 2022, Newcastle Uni Shielfield Art Works (SAW) Gallery, 2022, Newcastle Beamish Museum Magazine feature on Dovetails "Beamish's Men's Groups Share Skills and Create Masterpieces" (2023) Conference Presentation, Museums Next Health Wellbeing Summit, 2023 |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Impact | Each of these four projects are still in use, including two being included in the built environment of Clover Cottage at Beamish Living Museum. |
URL | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk5jc1GT5_4 |
Title | Mariana's Song Project |
Description | Marianas Song is a multi-sensory cinema experience created for older people with dementia, living in care homes. Mariana's Song takes place within a thoughtfully designed, pop-up multisensory installation, complete with sensory objects of interest to intrigue the participant. Mariana's Song reaches audiences in residential care homes with the lowest levels of engagement in arts and culture and supports creativity through user-led engagement. As audiences explore tactile objects within the space, which correlate with and trigger the 6 generative chapters of the film, each non-verbal cue affects the atmosphere and sensory state of the installation. Audiences can enjoy each of the 6 sensory experiences for an unlimited time and in any sequence using non-verbal communication, making the work accessible to people who are not able to communicate easily. in collaboration with Woven Nest Theatre This multisensory cinema installation comprises bespoke software and hardware to create an immersive aesthetic experience for care home residents with advanced dementia. Exhibitions and events include: Festival of Social Prescription, 2022, National Glass Centre, Sunderland 1-Week Residency at The Laurels Care Home, May 2022 1-Week Residency at Hazelgrove Court Care Home, Oct 2022 1-Week Residency at Longlands Care Home, Nov 2022 1-Week Residency at The Gables Care Home, Dec 2022 1-Week Residency at Sand Banks Care Home, Jan 2023 |
Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Impact | We've tested this approach with 125 older audiences with advanced dementia who are often excluded from meaningful art and cultural experiences due to physical and cognitive barriers. |
URL | http://www.vimeo.com/838951057 |
Title | Research co-production with ReCoCo to understand community-based support for wellbeing |
Description | A film for Recovery College Collective with their participants to look at: What does a place-based or community-led approach look like for supporting people with their mental health and broader wellbeing? They did vox pops with service users and staff to capture this. |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Impact | The film was used to influence how ReCoCo set out to run it's activities afterwards, and they plan to use it to apply for future funding. |
URL | https://digitalcitizens.uk/blog/co-creation-research-with-recoco-exploring-community-based-support-f... |
Title | Sustainability Reflection Cards |
Description | This card deck is designed to be a tool to reflect on what sustainability means in relation to digital technology. It builds on a theoretical and methodological framework the "Circles of Sustainability". |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Impact | This is a card deck designed and manufactured in a small batch, exhibitions and events so far include: MozFest 2022 Workshop Design+ 2022 Exhibition, Northumbria Uni DIS 2023 Workshop, Pittsburgh, USA Design Informatics Presentation 2023, Edinburgh ITI Lisbon Workshop, 2024, Portugal Responsible Design Week 2024 Pop-up Studio, Northumbria Uni |
URL | https://digitalcitizens.uk/blog/sustainability-reflection-cards-2/ |
Description | The work of this award is currently emerging. We have provided insight across a number of areas of civic life including access to health and care services, design and use of public transport systems, social media use and online harms, and engagement with information resources in rural communities. There is also growing insight around methodologies for community engagement and participation in the co-design and delivery of services. |
Exploitation Route | Methodological insights support forms of community engagement and participation in public service planning and delivery. |
Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Education Government Democracy and Justice Culture Heritage Museums and Collections Transport |
URL | https://digitalcitizens.uk/blog/ |
Description | Parliamentary and Scientific Committee (P&SC) APPG Discussion on Digital Health |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/135/science-innovation-and-technology-committee |
Description | Digital mattering: A philosophical anthropology of mobile messaging as everyday human goodness |
Amount | ÂŁ45,544 (GBP) |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2023 |
End | 06/2024 |
Description | Navigating Generative AI in Universities Student and Staff Perspectives and Policy Insights |
Amount | ÂŁ9,967 (GBP) |
Organisation | Northumbria University |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2024 |
End | 06/2024 |
Description | Northern Health Futures Hub |
Amount | ÂŁ3,359,256 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/X031012/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2023 |
End | 10/2026 |
Description | Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) Fellowship |
Amount | ÂŁ6,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | British Psychological Society (BPS) |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2023 |
End | 04/2023 |
Description | Queer Joy As a Digital Good |
Amount | ÂŁ39,417 (GBP) |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 07/2023 |
End | 05/2024 |
Description | SMOOTH: Smoothing the Digital Identity Onboarding Process |
Amount | ÂŁ35,174 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 04/2023 |
End | 12/2023 |
Description | Tabular Data Under Inference Attacks: An Online Survey on the Public Perception of Privacy |
Amount | ÂŁ2,940 (GBP) |
Organisation | University of Birmingham |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 05/2023 |
End | 12/2023 |
Title | Data Diaries |
Description | DataDiaries was a study to find out about online misinformation habits and we created a tool for recall-based diary data collection with special features for sharing URLs into the system and annotating them. DataDiaries centers around the diary page. It's designed to be the single tool to add, view and annotate entries for the study. We lent into the metaphor of it being an actual diary to make it more familiar to use and easier to operate. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Impact | The study consisted of two parts. After a recruitment drive that led to over 150 people applying to take part, the team found 19 participants to fill in their DataDiaries over a two-week period. After the two-week period was up, participants were invited to an interview where they were asked to reflect on their experience and the data collected during the study. As part of the second phase, participants were given short booklets with infographics about their news consumption and a short poem written by ChatGPT based on the data collected. |
URL | https://digitalcitizens.uk/projects/misinformation-study/ |
Title | Deconf conferencing platform |
Description | Deconf (de-centralised conference) is an Open Source library for building virtual conference platforms developed by Open Lab at Newcastle University. It has been developed with the learnings of running several online conferences since 2020. Scalable - Deconf is designed to run with thousands of concurrent visitors. The infrastructure is designed to run as stateless containers that scale horizontally to accomodate more and more traffic. Decisions favor up-front computation so the visitor experience is as uncomputational as possible. The internal schedule information is processed in the background, not on-demand and the client app is a bundled SPA requiring even less server computation. Agnostic - Deconf is built to work with as many different platforms as possible. It doesn't provide any video streaming out of the box but instead makes it easy to get visitors into a Zoom room, watch a Vimeo livestream or prerecorded YouTube video. Customisable - Deconf is a library for making your own conference platform, not a SaaS platform you go to to host something. This allows deployments created with the library can be completely bespoke and not something generic. The api and ui libraries are build up of modules that you can swap in and out to customise everything. Features An Atrium, which is the homepage for attendees with live stats, helpful links to get about and embedded onboarding media. A "Session Grid" page to show subsets of sessions in a non-temporal format. A chronological schedule page that groups sessions by start/end time and prioratises sessions that are live Detailed pages for each session with relevant links and embeds, for example, embedding a YouTube video or a Zoom call-to-action and linking to a Miro board Registration and magic-link based login pages to quickly get into the conference via an email Real-time interpretation during live events, so attendees can tune-in to live interpretation and experience the conference in English, French, Spanish or Arabic All copy is built to be localised to it can be customised or translated as required and the ui is built for RTL and LTR orientations. |
Type Of Technology | e-Business Platform |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | It has been used for several conferences including: climate:red 2020 with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) was the first prototype for Deconf and is what the initial version of the libraries were based on. Over 10,000 people from 195 countries registered for the Summit. During the 31 consecutive hours it ran for they had between 1,300 - 2,800 people online at most times. MozFest 2021 the annual conference for Mozilla was the first deployment of Deconf. The libraries were made to adapt the logic from climate:red so it could be repurposed for MozFest. planet:Red with the IFRC was the next deployment of Deconf. It was used to convert planet:red into a Deconf deployment as the initial prototype contained no shared code in the end. It was a good oppertunity to refine the Deconf libraries to make them more customisable and add new features/configurations based on the MozFest deployment. This lead to lots of breaking changes but ended up with more flexible APIs and components. MozFest 2022 was the next deployment of Deconf which nicely inherited lots of improvements from the planet:Red deployment and added back more customisations and configurations to the libraries. |
URL | https://github.com/digitalinteraction/deconf |
Title | MetroFutures consultation |
Description | The MetroFurtures website for the Tyne and Wear Metro 2020 consultation includes: Explore your new Metro: Move around 360-degree images at seven points in and around the train to discover new features and provide feedback on them. Configure your new Metro: Some design decisions remain to be made on your new Metro. Let us know your preferences by trying out options for seven different features. You can then share your ideal Metro with us and on social media. Explore your journeys: Six people and six different journeys that reflect real experiences of travelling on Metro and other trains that people have shared with us. Step into their shoes, experience the new trains from their points of view, and think about how well they fit their needs. Each journey consists of six video clips with one or more questions after each. Pick someone to begin. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | Thr consultation received over 23,000 responses and was one of the biggest public consultations the rail industry has ever seen. MetroFutures won the Technical Innovation of the Year - Rolling Stock award at the Global Light Rail Awards. Nexus also celebrated three Gold awards and one Silver Award at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations North East Pride ceremony during the same week. Nexus was also named winner for Regional Campaign of the Year, Best Use of Content and Best Use of Digital and Social Media and coming runner up in the Best Public Sector Campaign category. |
URL | https://metrofutures.org.uk/ |
Title | SenseMyStreet: Sensor Commissioning Toolkit for Communities |
Description | Software to support https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3555215 |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Impact | The SeMS toolkit continues to operate as part of Urban Observatory at Newcastle, enabling communities and citizens to gather data relevant to issues important to them at a hyper-local scale and integrate that data into the smart city datasets used for decision-making. |
URL | https://data.ncl.ac.uk/articles/software/SenseMyStreet_Sensor_Commissioning_Toolkit_for_Communities/... |
Title | Sticker Stories |
Description | Sticker Stories is a prototype web app for collecting anonymous views and opinions around physical locations with QR code stickers and experimental A.I. moderation. Sticker Stories is research probe to explore how to create engagement around physical locations and try to create meaningful conversations about place. We used QR code stickers placed around a location along with clear messaging to prompt people to reflect on the physical space. When the QR code is scanned, it brings up a page specific to that location along with the conversation thats going on. Under the conversation, you can then add your own contribution. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Impact | It was used as part of a study with the Department for Education to assess how pupils felt about their school buildings. |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/developing-a-method-for-obtaining-pupil-insight-for-build... |
Description | 'There is no standard': investigation finds AI algorithms objectify women's bodies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Guardian interviewed Carolina Are in article ''There is no standard': investigation finds AI algorithms objectify women's bodies' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/08/biased-ai-algorithms-racy-women-bodies |
Description | Abstract accepted and presented at The 15th AIDSImpact Conference 2023 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Abstract accepted and presented at The 15th AIDSImpact Conference 2023 (Stockholm, Sweden); International audience, 200 attendees, people from voluntary/community organisations, health sector and researchers working in health research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Advising Meta on their nudity, sexual activity and sexual solicitation policies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are was invited to a Meta workshop with academics from leading European institutions to advise on changes to the company's policies regulating the visibility of bodies and sex. Feedback given during the session may inform future Meta (Instagram and Facebook) changes to their community guidelines governing content worldwide. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Ageless Citizen Partner workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Workshop with various partner organisations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Algorithms For Her 2 conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are presented paper on the impact of malicious flagging and de-platforming on creators at the margins |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Annual Government Security Conference (Online). |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation of our work with ThinkCyber on 'Changing the Security Culture of Government' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Annual Conference - 2023, Philadelphia |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are presented solo authored paper on "Researching under platforms' gaze" and co-written paper on hyperinvisibility for marginalised content creators with Hanne Stegeman and Thomas Poell. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | BBC News |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are quoted in How to check if your Instagram posts are being hidden BBC news article. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63907699 |
Description | British Psychological Association's Cyberpsychology Annual Conference 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | British Psychological Association's Cyberpsychology Annual Conference 2022 - presentation of RHED-C project work. CDC innovation fellow chair & opening host at the conference. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | British Psychology Society Careers Festival |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Dawn Branley Bell was invited to present on the Inspiration Stage about her career in Cyberpsychology including highlighting CDC work |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Cannes Lions |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are presenting research as part of collaboration with Hunger Magazine's THE UNSEEN project on online censorship. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Code Project: Bots for Good |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | "Code Project: Bots for Good", a workshop for 29 young people in Years 9, 10 and 11 across the North East, working in small teams to develop robots as solution to a challenge in their community |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Collaborative Newcastle Evidence Based Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation about CDC |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Collaborative Newcastle Prosperities Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation of CDC. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Connected Citizen Partner Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Workshop with various partner organisations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Cosmopolitan article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are quoted in Cosmopolitan article Sex educators are hitting back at Instagram following bans |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/sex/a44373144/sex-educators-hitting-back-at-instagram-follo... |
Description | Creative session around design requirements for remote care |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Creative session around design requirements for remote care (hosted at Northumbria) with not-for-profit healthcare representative for the eating disorder sector, and a local artist with lived experience. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Creative workshops at Eating Distress North East |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Two creative workshops to explore creative ways for individuals to express their experiences of remote healthcare during the pandemic. The workshops were a huge success (requiring us to schedule an extra second session due to participant interest). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | CyberFest Workshop The fakes just got real: combatting the threat and making AI work for good |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | CDc members talked to members of the Cyber North network as part of the 2023 #Cyberfest |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | CyberFest Workshop: Cybersecurity culture and peer support |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talked to members of the Cyber North network as part of the 2023 #Cyberfest. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Cybersecurity Activity Day with Schools |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | A series of talks, activities, and demonstrations on security for secondary school children (CIS) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Dazed article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are quoted in Instagram keeps banning sex-positive and kink accounts Dazed article. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/60228/1/instagram-keeps-banning-sex-positive-and-k... |
Description | Design + Exhibition: Streetimals: Sensor-based play for children |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation of Streetimals: Sensor-based play for children |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Design+ Exhibition: Dovetails Project Presentation (Ageless Citizen) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation of Dovetails project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Design+ Exhibition: Sustainability Reflection Cards |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation of Sustainability Reflection Cards. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Developing a method for obtaining pupil insight for building in use reviews: The use and value of external school space focus groups |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | "Three focus group workshops at a local high school and middle school as part of the project ""Developing a method for obtaining pupil insight for building in use reviews: The use and value of external school space"" one focus group each for sixth form, year 9-11 and middle school; 6 students per focus group; to ascertain: i) what is important to student about outdoor space (likes, dislikes) to identify important questions to ask them and ii) which technologies the students can see being used to ask them about outdoor spaces in school (individual, group-based /collaborative discussion, location-based)" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Digital Delights and Disturbances lecture series at John Cabot University, Rome |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are presenting CDC work + teaching workshop. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Disparate Content Moderation workshop focused on improving the DSA - University of Amsterdam |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presented the report on co-designing platform governance policies and advise on improvements on the European Union's Digital Services Act |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Dovetails Project Celebration |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Engaging circles of care (families) with our research agenda and celebration of co-design work, leading to deepening research relationships and ongoing impact with participant community groups. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | ERicar: Co-creating an antenatal care information resource with Czech-Slovak Roma women |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Caroline Claisse and Mabel Lie from Newcastle University delivered a talk on the ERicar project. They discussed how the co-created resource provides a vehicle for Roma women to explore and access information and healthcare provision, potentially reducing poor maternal and perinatal health outcomes |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | ESRC Digital Good Network Showcase |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are presented work on Queer Joy as a Digital Good ESRC funded project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Electric Frontier Foundation article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are interview in Electric Frontier Foundation article. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.eff.org/pages/speaking-freely-dr-carolina-are |
Description | Eroticon 2023 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Part of opening panel and present CDC work at the 'Keeping content creators safe from platforms' gaze: findings from research and 'algorithmic gossips' session. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Established the SPIRITED Collective |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A community of 20-30 international members with an interest in interaction design, religion and spirituality. We meet online monthly (via Discord); the group is aimed at fostering collaborations (i.e. grant applications, publications). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://spiritedhci.org/ |
Description | European Feminist Research Conference (University of Milan Bicocca - Virtual) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are presenting research as part of panel on "Critiques of strategies for mediation, representation and digital technologies". |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Evening Standard article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are quoted in 'Deletion has broken us': how London's kink scene is taking on Meta Evening Standard article. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/instagram-meta-london-sex-kink-scene-deletion-b1092893.html |
Description | Fast company article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are quoted in Sex workers worry that Threads could kill their business Fast Company article. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.fastcompany.com/90920031/sex-workers-worry-that-threads-could-kill-their-business |
Description | Fastcompany article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are quoted in The explicit AI-created images of Taylor Swift flooding the internet highlight a major problem with generative AI Fastcompany article. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.fastcompany.com/91016953/deepfake-taylor-swift-ai-dangers |
Description | Festival of Social Prescription, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Design development and relationship building for research deployments and impact in local authorities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Gender Seminar Series |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are Presenting work + guest speaking at University of Trento's Gender Studies Centre. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Global Perspectives on Platforms, Labor and Social Reproduction at the University of Amsterdam |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Global Perspectives on Platforms, Labor and Social Reproduction at the University of Amsterdam. Carolina Are presented CDC project paper on appeals and failures of justice in content moderation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Huck magazine article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are quoted in Huckmag article. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.huckmag.com/article/sex-workers-and-the-kink-community-are-fighting-back-against-instagr... |
Description | Huffington Post |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are quoted in 'I Watched Porn In A Room Full Of People. Here's What I Learnt' Huffington Post article. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/i-watched-porn-in-a-room-full-of-people-heres-what-i-learnt_u... |
Description | ICA Postconference on media sociology (virtual) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are presenting research + new CDC work. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | International Conference of Eating Disorders (ICED 2022), Mexico (Remote). (Well Citizen) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presenting RHED-C project work (associated project of CDC) (https://research.northumbria.ac.uk/rhedc/) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | International Conference of Eating Disorders (ICED 2023), Washington DC, USA. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presented paper on experiences of remote healthcare during the pandemic |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | International Legal Informatics Symposium (IRIS24), Salzburg |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presented paper (with colleagues from law and computer science from FH joanneum, Austria) about Chatbots and AI for mental health support |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Invited Seminar Series Talk from Prof Alan Dix (Swansea University) and Dr Miriam Sturdee (St Andrews University) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Organised a seminar talk and visit to Northumbria with talks around Digital Citizenship and thinking outside the box with research outputs. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Invited to give a seminar at KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited to give a seminar at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (in-person + online) |Presented insights from CDC work on HCI/Spirituality, title of my talk: Exploring techno-spiritual practice: a case study for Soma Design exploration; 25 people attended; mostly people based at KTH (Sweden) but it was also opened for people to join online from abroad (i.e. a couple of academics also joined from USA). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | London meeting with Cabinet Office |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Discussion around the importance of a security culture for government departments. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Mariana's Song Care Home Tour |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Substantial research insight and meaningful impact for over 100 families, sector development for creative ageing practice, academic publications. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
Description | Mashable article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are quoted in Is Instagram shadowbanning LGBTQ and sex ed accounts? Mashable article. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Mashable article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are quoted in Inside the deep, dark world of influencer gossip forums Mashable article. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://mashable.com/article/tattle-life-influencer-gossip-forums |
Description | Meeting with Family Gateway at Howdon Community Hub |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Met with the business development and operations manager to discuss work around women's health communication. Details of our current menopause and digital information study were shared and the recruitment details will be disseminated to staff at the hub. An agreement was made to stay in touch regarding any ongoing or future research as they are keen to get involved. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Meeting with No. 10 Downing St. Data Science Team |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | CDC members spoke to a member of No. 10DS about Citizen Centred AI. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Meeting with Ofcom |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Meeting between CDC and Ofcom, held at Northumbria, with approximately 15 Northumbria attendees (Four Ofcom visitors). Discussion around the new online safety bill and its implications. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Mozfest: Recipes for Sustainable Data |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop as part of Mozilla's MozFest. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/K7E9EG-1 |
Description | Mozfest: Reflecting on the Sustainability of Digital Technologies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop as party of Mozilla's Mozfest. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/WVL3CA-1 |
Description | MuseumNext Health & Wellbeing Summit |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Ageless Citizen: Dovetails project presented at 2023 MuseumNext Health & Wellbeing Summit |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | NBC news |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are quoted in Ads for AI sex workers are flooding Instagram and TikTok. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/ai-girlfriend-ads-instagram-tiktok-chat-pics-chatgpt-dose-... |
Description | New York Times Article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are quoted in New York Times article 'Why Did Instagram Pause This Play? Its Creators Still Don't Know' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/11/theater/instagram-jeanne-dark-marion-siefert.html |
Description | NordiCHI conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop paper accepted and presented in the in-person workshop organised as part of the NordiCHI Conference (2022): Co-Imagining Participatory Design in Religious and Spiritual Contexts. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://sites.google.com/view/futureofparticipation |
Description | Northumbria Graphics Design Symposium |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Presented Dovetails and Mariana's Song to undergrads across graphics |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Northumbrian Water & Northumbria University Joint Innovation Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Pam Briggs attended half day workshop with c20 Northumbrian Water leaders to discuss partnership working. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Online sex work & platform governance: can regulation make things safer? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presented 'Identifying malicious flagging through user experience' paper at virtual conference. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Online workshop: including public voices in responsible AI research and practice |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | We attended workshop organised by RAI Strategy Group on considerations of how to involve UK publics/citizens in future AI development |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Participatory Design Conference (PDC) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 17th Biennial Participatory Design Conference (PDC) - hosted in the UK for the first time in Newcastle upon Tyne. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Pre-Conference Workshop on Responsible Recommender Systems - Philadelphia |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Attended AoIR pre-conference workshop. Through a combination of presentations, discussions, and exercises, this full-day workshop explores the technical, regulatory, economic and sociocultural aspects of recommenders, situating them in their historical and industry contexts, and articulating their future prospects. The workshop is facilitated by an international group of leading researchers from law, communication and media, anthropology, and computer science. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Presentation about Sustainability Reflection Cards |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Sebastian Prost presented the design process and use of cards at Design Informatics in Edinburgh. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Presentation of trajectories into Computer Science/HCI and hands-on workshop to draw designs for app helping children who feel lonely |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Presentation of trajectories into Computer Science/HCI and hands-on workshop to draw designs for app helping children who feel lonely |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Purdue UX Digital Civics Exchange |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Purdue UX Digital Civics Exchange hosting Purdue UX academics and students. Short design sprints on small digital civics related projects with Northumbria & Newcastle researchers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Re-making Research Network Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Re-making Research Network Workshop at the University of York's Center for Women's Studies. Presentation of work in opening keynote. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Responsible Design Week: Pop-up studio |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | A sustainability studio pop-up for students across School of Design |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | RightsCon (virtual) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 'Who Writes The Rules' platform governance virtual panel - Carolina Are presenting research + new CDC work. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Royal Society Workshop on Citizen-Centred AI |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Pam Briggs presented as part of a panel organised by CCAIS: Challenges and Opportunities for Citizen-Centric AI Systems |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | SPRITE+ meet-up with the London Office for Rapid Cybersecurity Advancement |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation of work from CDC. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Safe Citizen Partner Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Workshop with various partner organisations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | San Francisco Lecture on platform governance of nudity |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | San Francisco Lecture on platform governance of nudity |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Self-organised learning environments for young refugees and asylum seekers in the North East of England |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Self-organised learning environments for young refugees and asylum seekers in the North East of England" using draw-write method to ascertain how the children learned something new in their home country, in the UK without and with being enrolled in school |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Special Track on Citizen-Centred AI |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | CDC members organised a special track on Citizen-Centred AI in Lisbon as part of the GoodIT conference. Kyle and Carolina also on programme committee. Also paper on older adult personas has been accepted for presentation at GoodIT |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Sprite+ expert fellows meeting (Holmes Chapel) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation of CDC work. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Talk given at the in-person ARC/Fuse event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk given at the in-person ARC/Fuse event titled: "ARC/Fuse 'Strengthening mental health research and practice' conference" (Newcastle); I gave the talk together with our project partner Ways to Wellness (Ang Broadbridge); Audience: researchers, practitioners, mental health service providers and commissioners, members of the public and service users; The most significant outcome: knowledge sharing from our CDC project, stakeholder engagement. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Talk given at the in-person NIHR/VONNE event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk given at the in-person NIHR/Vonne event titled: "Putting principles into practice: Engaging diverse communities" (Newcastle); I gave the talk together with our partner ReCoCo (Alisdair Cameron); Audience: 40-50 attendees, people from voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations and researchers with an interest in health and social care; The most significant outcome: knowledge sharing from our CDC project within the VCSE community, stakeholder engagement. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Talk on UK government porn consultation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are to speak on London panel about UK Govt public consultation on regulating pornography |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Talk on digital sex and the Online Safety Act |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are gave talks to sexual health brand and creators about the Online Safety Act's challenges to the field |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Tech crunch article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Caroina Are quoted in 'The Taylor Swift deepfake debacle was frustratingly preventable' Techcrunch article. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/30/the-taylor-swift-deepfake-debacle-was-frustratingly-preventable/?g... |
Description | Turing Institute Northern Data Debate |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Turing Institute Northern Data Debate: Rage against the (technology) machine. "Series of five Northern Data Debates igniting spirited conversations with world-leading experts". Hosted at The Catalyst, Newcastle. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.turing.ac.uk/events/northern-data-debates-rage-against-technology-machine |
Description | Uppsala Seminars on HCI |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation on Reimagining children's outdoor play using digital technology |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Virtual talk at sex worker conference on UK government porn consultation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are shared work on flagging and de-platforming |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Well Citizen Partner Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Workshop with various partner organisations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Wired article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are quoted in Instagram Is Removing Sex-Positive Accounts Without Warning article. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.wired.com/story/instagram-removing-sex-positive-accounts-without-warning/ |
Description | Workshop 3: Self-organised learning environments for young refugees and asylum seekers in the North East of England |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | "Workshop 3 for project ""Self-organised learning environments for young refugees and asylum seekers in the North East of England"" using Pupil View Templates and group discussion to ascertain which online safety concerns for mental and physical health and well-being the children are aware of". |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Workshop on Identity Management |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Attended workshop at Imperial to reflect on changes since the 'Future Identities' report of 2012 and possible new report. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7cced340f0b6629523bf00/13-524-future-identities-cha... |
Description | Workshop paper accepted and presented in the in-person workshop organised as part of the DIS Conference (2023) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop paper accepted and presented in the in-person workshop organised as part of the DIS Conference (2023): Designing Tangible Interactive Artifacts for Religious and Spiritual Purposes; https://sites.google.com/view/dis2023-tia; 10-15 people; attendees: international, interdisciplinary (design, academia, theologians); The most significant outcome: networking, |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Workshop with Sustainability Reflection Cards |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Sebastian Prost led a workshop with PhD students, postdocs, and faculty at Interactive Technologies Institue (Tecnico Lisbon, Portugal) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Workshop with Sustainability Reflection Cardsunivers |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Attended a workshop to network and talk about the project with interested parties on Impact and future developments |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Workshop: The Promises and Perils of Generative AI for the Creator Economy - Microsoft, Boston |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are participated in and presented at Microsoft's workshop to to develop a research agenda for the transformation of content creation into an AI-focused business. Workshops took place at Microsoft New England and Harvard. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | World Congress 2022 (Hosted by the World Federation of Hemophilila). Montreal, Canada. (Well Citizen) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Delivered an invited guest talk at the World Congress on the use of social media for healthcare conditions - from the perspective of service users, healthcare providers and researchers. (Well Citizen) . |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | il post article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are quoted in Instagram e gli "shadow ban" su Israele e Palestina il post article. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.ilpost.it/2023/10/19/shadow-ban-palestina-instagram/ |
Description | ilpost article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are quoted in Instagram continua ad avere problemi a gestire i contenuti sessualmente espliciti article. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.ilpost.it/2023/06/30/ban-profili-sessualita-instagram/ |
Description | inews article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Carolina Are quoted in Facebook at 20: Former staff on what Zuckerberg got wrong inews article. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://inews.co.uk/news/facebook-20-zuckerberg-right-wrong-2882308 |