Feasibility studies

Youth Digital Cultures Lab
Empowering Youth to Co-Create Diverse Digital Futures Young people are the largest group online, with 45% of global internet users below the age of …
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Our futures and AI
Young people will lead this research project, creating guidance and resources to contribute to the positive and constructive use of AI, particularly in relation …
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Online Objectification
Exploring barriers to digital civic participation through an anti-objectification intervention This project will explore how young women experience objectifying content on social media and …
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Youth-led research and development
Digital Youth Work The aim of this project is to enable young people impacted by digital exclusion to develop the digital skills and critical …
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New Narratives
Promoting refugee & asylum seeker civic participation through third sector capability building We are delighted to announce that INCLUDE+ has funded New Narratives as …
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Fellowships

Leeds Digital Volunteering
This fellowship involves working closely with strategic partners across Leeds to develop and test the feasibility of enabling tech sector businesses to share their …
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The risks and opportunities associated with chatbots using generative AI for children
This Fellowship involved independent research into the risks and opportunities associated with chatbots using generative AI for children. The aim was to understand children’s …
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Criteria for Age-Appropriate Design
Mapping problematic practices and defining criteria for (non) compliance with data protection, online safety and digital service regulation for children 5Rights Foundation has played …
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Exploratory Projects
Rapid response projects which embrace an element of risk or experimentation

Mapping IN+ Principles across the network
The aim of this project is to carry out an analysis and refinement of the IN+ Principles, which were developed by the IN+ Team …
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Digital Youth Work is Infrastructure
This experimental project seeks to highlight the role of youth workers as digital inclusion leaders within non-formal educational spaces. It will document the everyday …
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The process of giving smart phones to people seeking asylum
This project will be a rapid response to the urgent need of smart phones for people with new asylum claims and without a smart …
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Fostering Digital Cultural Participation
Decentralised autonomous organisations (more commonly referred to as DAOs) are online communities that use distributed ledger technologies to create public, automated, and distributed voting …
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See the whole of me
Co-creating a resource for promoting a community, life-course approach to maternal listening As many as one in five women will experience mental health issues …
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Research hubs

Digital Youth Work Research Hub
The Digital Youth Work Research Network is hosted by the University of Leeds within the INCLUDE+ Network. DYWR.HUB aims to explore the intersections of …
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IN+ ART Iterations Programme
IN+ ART Iterations explores digital equity and the implications of our INCLUDE+ Principles. In 2023 and 2024, we are collaborating with artists and communities …
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Horizon scanning studies
Exploring emerging and long-term practices and challenges

Emerging Technologies
Lead Investigator: Matt Jones The pandemic has opened up the possibility of imagining and building a future that takes different core values and practices …
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Civic Participation
What is and what isn’t civic participation? What is the role of digital equity in civic participation? Our aim was to co-explore these questions …
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