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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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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Feasibility studies

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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Co-producing and Implementing a ‘place-based’ Coding Club Framework for Underserved Communities
The team behind this study has been working with Bradford Council to prioritise the development of digital skills to enable children and young people …
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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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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

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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Kinlochbervie Emerging Technologies
The remote village of Kinlochbervie is the most northerly port on the west coast of Scotland, 2.5 hours from the nearest large town. The …
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Subtitling and Audio Description for All
Oakwood Cinema is a community-based project, set up eight years ago. We screen current films once a month to 150+ local audience.This project stems …
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