Feasibility studies

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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Fellowships

Building ethical partnerships between youth work and tech companies
Hosted by YouthLink Scotland, this Fellowship aims to support the youth work sector in Scotland, to better understand how to build ethical partnerships with …
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Getting the VCSE ready for AI
Working with and through Local Infrastructure Organisations, this fellowship will identify the key ethical, policy and practice challenges which small VCSE organisations experience in making effective use of AI.
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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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Exploratory Projects
Rapid response projects which embrace an element of risk or experimentation

Empowering Women and Families through Digital Inclusion
Samphire aims to enable the women it supports to become fluent in the use of digital media to prevent digital exclusion and facilitate access …
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Collective Care in Digital Settings
This project explores how online environments can be reshaped to support wellbeing, connection, and inclusion — particularly for neurodivergent and marginalised artists, researchers, and …
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Detatched youth work digital inclusion
The aim of this project is to access the knowledge, experience and views of a community of practice that play a unique role in …
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Recipes for Connection
This project is a rapid, rights-based response to the digital exclusion faced by refugee and asylum-seeking communities in Margate. It builds on frontline work …
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AI in Everyday Life
Empowering ethnic minority women through food, skills & digital confidence The goal is to build digital confidence and close a growing gap in AI …
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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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