Projects

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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Precarity

Uncertainties regarding the availability of, and access to opportunities, support, resources and knowledge, have fed into widespread precarity as a lived socio-technical condition across …
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Wellbeing

Lead Investigator: Roger Maull Wellbeing is a priority that needs to be addressed through structural change. Research on the impact of changing working and …
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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 will involve independent research into the risks and opportunities associated with chatbots using generative AI for children. The aim of the project …
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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 Articulate Hub Project Exploration

This Exploratory Project, led by Articulate Cultural Trust, aims to bridge the digital divide and promote digital equity by developing a creative e-learning platform. …
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