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By Darran Gillan   Hi everyone! I’m Darran Gillan, and I’m excited to be stepping into the Research Lead Role on the IN+ Principles Analysis Exploratory Project with INCLUDE+. It’s a privilege to join such a vibrant and thoughtful network committed to digital equity, creativity, and community transformation. With a background in digital inclusion, community development, … Read more

The New Narratives Workshop held in Leeds on March 19–20, 2024, provided a space for organisations supporting refugees and asylum seekers to examine their approaches to inclusion, storytelling, and digital engagement. Designed to help participants reconsider projects that facilitate participation, the workshop foregrounded the use of storytelling as a tool to counteract cynicism and fear, … Read more

INCLUDE+ network explores how social and digital environments can be built, shaped and sustained to enable all people to thrive. But what does it mean to ‘thrive’ in this context?

Over the past 6 months, we have been exploring the idea of ‘thriving’ through conversations with Prof. Caroline Bassett and Dr. Edgar Gómez Cruz at the Data School, Cambridge University; through our digital equity and inclusion workshops with Thrive by Design, and through related community work with Space 2 in order to think about what we mean by ‘thriving’, what properties thriving has for us, and how — ultimately — we might build for it.

Is digital equity a utopian idea? A digitally equitable world would be a place where all people can access and use digital technologies to meaningfully participate in society, democracy, and economy. Just imagine: no systemic barriers and anyone (regardless of their gender identity, race, [dis]ability, and/or social-economic status and other intersectional factors) would have the … Read more

Truly inclusive governance requires going beyond seeking out diverse perspectives—it requires active efforts to foster an inclusive environment. An organisation’s culture needs to be reflected in its advisory board, especially as the board’s role is, in part, to hold the organisation to its values. Unfortunately, boardrooms don’t have a great track record for being inclusive. So creating an inclusive boardroom might mean we have to throw the boardroom out with the bored-water… 

This month we welcome a new Research Fellow to the INCLUDE+ Management Group. Dr Alicja Pawluczuk has over a decade of experience in co-designing, facilitating, and evaluating digital inclusion, digital literacy and ICT-enabled and/or focused education programmes in the UK and internationally. She brings with her experience working on both high-level digital development programmes as well … Read more

Are you a postdoctoral researcher looking to work for a leading research institute? Do you want to apply your skills, knowledge and expertise to tackle digital inequality in society? Are you a digital practitioner or digital creative with an interest in collaborative and interdisciplinary work? The School of Media and Communication invites applications for a … Read more

Welcome to the website for INCLUDE+, a five year project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council! From September 2022 our network will begin to build a knowledge community around in/equalities in digital society that will comprise industry, academia, the public and third sectors in response to the UKRI Equitable Digital Society theme. … Read more