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SUMMARY:Wellbeing and digital equity
DESCRIPTION:Led by Roger Maull and Matt Jones \n\n\n\n\nWhat innovative approaches to increase wellbeing at work have you seen?\n\n\n\nHow might we use digital technologies to improve wellbeing at work?\n\n\n\nHow can we move from a passive approach to job design to a more proactive perspective?
URL:https://includeplus.org/event/wellbeing-and-digital-equity/
CATEGORIES:INCLUDE+ CONNECT 2023,INCLUDE+ CONNECT 2023 thematic workshops,Wellbeing
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SUMMARY:Workshop: ‘Doing’ Digital Inclusion. Participation! Action! Digital stuff!
DESCRIPTION:In this interactive INCLUDE+ workshop\, Irene Mackintosh\, part of the team of Mhor Collective\, will explore how digital inclusion work is at its most meaningful when it’s part of real holistic support. Drawing on her experience of supporting organisations which work directly with people currently using drugs\, and people experiencing homelessness\, she’ll talk about how\, sometimes\, support with no agenda is exactly the right agenda when it comes to digital inclusion\, and how relational approaches\, with love-as-standard\, can change everything. \n\n\n\n\nIrene Mackintosh is one of two founding managing directors of Mhor Collective\, a community interest company based in Scotland. Mhor views digital inequality as a social justice issue\, and understands how the digital space impacts on people’s human rights. Mhor Collective has worked on a significant number of projects in Scotland and beyond (including Connecting Scotland\, Get Digital Scotland\, Digital Lifelines and Geo Nova Scotia). Working with committed and passionate organisations\, Mhor co-designs\, develops\, delivers and evaluates digital inclusion projects. \n\n\n\nIrene is also particularly interested in how participatory action research approaches can help people who are marginalised and stigmatised not only to develop digital skills and understanding\, but to take more control of their lives and advocate for change.
URL:https://includeplus.org/event/workshop-doing-digital-inclusion-participation-action-digital-stuff/
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SUMMARY:Am AI in Pain?
DESCRIPTION:In our IN+ART INTERATIONS workshop with Space 2\, we delved into the intricate web of pain\, technology\, and the potential influence of AI. The workshop wasl guided by guided by Dr. Alicja Pawluczuk (HYSTERA from the INCLUDE+ Network). \n\n\n\nOur focus? Unravelling the layers of pain co-construction\, assessment\, and management in the digital age. \n\n\n\nDigital Equity Under the Microscope: We probed into the ever-evolving digital technologies shaping pain management\, accentuating the external forces that contribute to the landscape of digital [in]equity \n\n\n\nAI Dynamics: We examine the role of artificial intelligence in the assessment and management of pain\, shedding light on both its promises and unforeseen consequences. \n\n\n\nFuture-making: we created artworks representing potential futures where new solutions to pain assessment\, verification\, and management are available.
URL:https://includeplus.org/event/am-ai-in-pain/
LOCATION:Space2
CATEGORIES:IN+ Art Iterations
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231204T130000
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SUMMARY:Pathways to Digital Equity
DESCRIPTION:Considering vulnerabilities\, available resources and access to opportunities\n\n\n\nDr Juliane Stiller & Dr Violetta Trkulja\, Genzenlos Digitale e.V \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop is dedicated to digital equity and delves into various dimensions\, including digital vulnerability\, available digital resources\, and emerging digital opportunities. In the workshop\, I will present a case study focusing on an online course tailored to refugees and migrants in Germany. Through this course\, 50 participants were equipped with basic digital skills\, enabling them to navigate the German job market online and to find information on qualifications and job requirements. \n\n\n\n\nBuilding upon this case study\, we will identify the diverse sources of digital vulnerability that hinder individuals from active digital participation. Through different scenarios\, we will engage in discussions and collaboratively analyze the fundamental aspects of the digital divide. The objective is to pinpoint best practices and ideas that drive us closer to achieving digital inclusion and equity. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is designed to facilitate meaningful discussions about the complexity of the digital divide\, fostering an environment where you are encouraged to share your insights and experiences. \n\n\n\nJuliane Stiller is an information scientist and chair of the board of the non-profit organization Grenzenlos Digital e. V. in Berlin\, Germany\, which wants to promote digital skills in society. She is passionate about digital literacy education and has over 10 years of experience as a researcher in information science at academic institutions. For the past 6 years\, she has been designing curricula for digital skills training with the mission of bridging the widening digital skills gap in society and fostering digital inclusion\, especially for vulnerable groups. Her research focuses on digital skills and their evaluation\, information behaviour\, as well as interventions that increase digital resilience in society. She is currently the subproject leader of the DESIVE2 project (Understanding disinformation behaviour)\, which investigates the underlying mechanisms involved in the digital spread of allegedly scientific health-related disinformation. She also works at her own company You\, We & Digital as an advisor and researcher.
URL:https://includeplus.org/event/pathways-to-digital-equity/
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SUMMARY:IN ART+ ITERATIONS with Thomás Diafas
DESCRIPTION:As a participant in our IN+ ART ITERATIONS programme\, Thomás Diafas organises a two-day workshop focused on exploring digital exclusion alongside a group of individuals with and without disabilities. \n\n\n\nDuring this workshop\, Thomás will collaborate with an organisation called Liminal\, based in Athens\, Greece. The workshop will take place in Athens on the 16th and 17th of December. \n\n\n\nUsing participatory and inclusive filmmaking practice\, the aim is to provide a platform for participants to share their personal experiences of digital exclusion and digital inclusion. Thomás’s workshop aims to equip individuals with fundamental skills in filmmaking and directing\, utilising user-friendly\, non-professional cameras. \n\n\n\nAs part of the IN+ ART programme\, Thomás will employ collaborative methods inspired by the concept of play\, fostering an environment that encourages alternative approaches to traditional hierarchical structures commonly found in film production teams. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Liminal. EU\n\n\n\nSince 2016\, liminal has been promoting inclusion and equal access to arts and culture. \n\n\n\nThrough its action\, the organisation aims to contribute to a richer and more diverse creative industry fostering the equal participation of all individuals in the artistic process. Liminal focuses its activity on three main domains: \n\n\n\nInclusive Education\, Accessibility Services and Productions. \n\n\n\nLiminal Website\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Thomás Diafas\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThomás Diafas (Thessaloniki\, 1987) is a Greek-Dominican transdisciplinary artist and educator. His practice revolves around the concept of care in education and the labour market\, aiming to combat anxiety and depression. \n\n\n\nHe has devised a hybrid of performative arts called “Performing the Real\,” targeting our contemplation of the differences between real life and art. Recently\, he moved to Berlin\, where he continues his research on care practices and breathing exercises aimed at healing transgenerational traumas. Simultaneously\, he explores the act of “kissing” in public and private spaces through historical works of art\, to create a new performance piece of his own. \n\n\n\nThomas Website
URL:https://includeplus.org/event/in-art-iterations-with-tomas-diafas/
CATEGORIES:IN+ Art Iterations
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SUMMARY:Exploring Cyber Sisterhood with Herstory of Art Museum (MuHER) in Poland
DESCRIPTION:Marta Grabowska and Aleksandra Pienkosz lead a collaborative and introspective workshop exploring the digital dimensions of sisterhood\, feminism and HERstory\, in collaboration with MuHER.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe workshop will inspect different ways in which we connect to the ideas of sisterhood\, herstory\, feminism\, etc online. The case study will be HERstory of Art Museum\, which is based across a multitude of different social media platforms/ websites and online affiliations. Participants will discuss exactly where this “safe and brave space of sisterhood” that we are striving to build is located\, especially since we all use different platforms/devices to connect to it.
URL:https://includeplus.org/event/exploring-cyber-sisterhood-with-herstory-of-art-museum-muher-in-poland/
CATEGORIES:IN+ Art Iterations
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SUMMARY:Digital Rituals for Collective Climate Grief
DESCRIPTION:Alison Rich\, in collaboration with Pioneer Winter Collective\n\n\n\nAs part of our Art Iterations workshop series\, artist Allison Rich will partner with the community in Miami to increase equity to process climate grief and to access rituals for regional collective care. The Climate Rituals space will use the topics of sustainability and digital equity as critical lenses to learn about collective care practices for climate grief. \n\n\n\nThe workshop will be a space to center climate grief in Miami and to invite the creation of rituals to process climate change in digital spaces. Participants will explore reflections about perceptions of climate change in Miami\, inthe context of digital equity\, and create content to increase access to digital tools for climate grief. Climate grief held by community\, creative organizers\, and interconnected diasporas will be centered.
URL:https://includeplus.org/event/digital-rituals-for-collective-climate-grief/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240617T000000
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SUMMARY:Sustaining Healing Technologies Within and Beyond the Digital
DESCRIPTION:Led by multimedia poet Samiir Saunders in collaboration with MAIA \n\n\n\n\nMAIA is a Black-led\, Art and Social Justice organisation based in Birmingham\, UK. Their work explores art and culture as strategy for liberation. MAIA works in community through the creation of spaces\, public programmes and resources with the Black imagination as a starting point. \n\n\n\n\nThis 3-hour workshop will introduce and discuss concept of digital equity and the interconnected factors (social\,economic\, cultural) which affect it. Following a practical demonstration on using free audio (Audacity) and video (Olive) software\, participants will discuss how diverse identities\, backgrounds\, and experiences might affect one’s access\, safety\, and literacy within digital spaces\, as well as the kinds of barriers that might contribute to digital inequity. Through a creative exercise\, participants will then collaborate to produce a video-poem which explores themes of community\, connection\, digital/physical spaces\, healing justice\, and/or equity/accessibility.
URL:https://includeplus.org/event/sustaining-healing-technologies-within-and-beyond-the-digital/
CATEGORIES:IN+ Art Iterations
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240919T163000
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SUMMARY:IN+ Endo Violence Project: Endometriosis Artivism & Solidarity Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Endometriosis Artivism & Solidarity: Join us at the Endo Violence Collective Film Screening and Workshop at the University of Leeds! \n\n\n\nJoin co-founders Dr Alicja Pawluczuk / Hystera and Allison (IN+ART residency from Miami\, USA) for a short film screening & participatory artivism seminar about endometriosis – a gendered health emergency. During the event\, you’ll be able to learn about the concept of endo violence and provide your interpretation of this systemic form of injustice. We will also be presenting the work of the Endo Violence Collective and the Endo Violence Magazyn – the first zine publication focusing on endometriosis-related art\, writing\, and activism. \n\n\n\nThe event is coordinated by Ajiri Ayokunle (Leeds Endometriosis Support Group) \n\n\n\nMake sure to follow us on Instagram and visit our website to access digital copies of our Endo Violence Magazyn.4:30 pm doors open with an artivism workshop\, and a 5:00 pm film screening\, followed by a talk and discussion.
URL:https://includeplus.org/event/in-endo-violence-project-endometriosis-artivism-solidarity-workshop/
LOCATION:School of Media and Communication – University of Leeds
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240920T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240920T163000
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SUMMARY:Mean[IN]gful digital inclusion
DESCRIPTION:Our second annual event\, on the theme of Mean[IN]gful Digital Inclusion\, engages with attendees through the participatory practices adopted by our Feasibility Study leads. We showcase current funded projects and activities by inviting participants to experience the approaches and methods used by within each project. We bookend these experiences with discussions and roundtables\, where we ask everyone to explore what a digital inclusive society would feel like. \n\n\n\nOur event will include: \n\n\n\n\nProject presentations\n\n\n\nIN+ Art Iterations update\n\n\n\nWorkshops\n\n\n\nIN+ Principles for Digital Equity work\n\n\n\n\n\nOur mission\n\n\n\nINCLUDE+ is a UKRI/EPSRC funded network exploring how social and digital environments can be built\, shaped and sustained to enable all people to thrive. The five-year programme of activities (2022-2027) will 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 \n\n\n\n\nPurpose of the event\n\n\n\nAttending our second annual INCLUDE+ event on Mean[IN]gful digital inclusion offers opportunities to engage with projects and participatory practices that are shaping the IN+ programming and practice. Participants will gain first-hand experience of methods and approaches used by leading projects in the field\, providing valuable insights for their own work. The event also features interactive workshops\, project presentations\, and discussions on IN+ principles\, offering a platform for networking\, collaboration\, and knowledge exchange with professionals and experts. \n\n\n\n\n\nPROGRAMME\n\n\n\nUnless indicated otherwise\, sessions will be in Seminar Rooms 1-2 (main space) \n\n\n\n\n\n9:30 – 10:15 – Facilitated informal table discussions   \n\n\n\n10:15 – 10:30 – Welcome  \n\n\n\n10:30 – 12:00 – Choice of two workshops: \n\n\n\n\nNew Narratives (Seminar Room 3)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow do we put our good intentions to one side and present our projects in an appealing and accessible manner to the wider public? In this session you’ll explore how to present your work as a compelling offer and a simple invitation. This is a taster from the Storytelling Lab in Folkestone\, during which we supported organizations using the arts to work with refugees and asylum seekers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYouth-led Research and Development (Seminar Room 4)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreate Something Amazing: YouthLink Scotland and Abertay University are supporting two youth groups – Datakirk and OYCI – to create digital games in a youth work setting.  Join them to take part in a games ideation workshop\, led by Dr Andrew Reid Abertay University\, explore how digital games can influence digital inclusion\, hear from the youth workers and young people involved in the project and find out about the approach to impact evaluation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12:00 – 13:00 – Buffet lunch \n\n\n\n13:00 – 14:30 – Workshop: \n\n\n\n\nIN+ Art Iterations\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the IN+ART fellows for a 90-minute experimental workshop at the 2023 IN+ Annual Event\, focusing on the intersection of art and digital equity. Facilitated by a diverse group of international artists\, the workshop aims to foster thoughtful dialogue and experimentation\, encouraging new perspectives on digital inclusion and equity.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n14:30 – 15:30 – Exploratory Expo – a chance to learn about our first round of Exploratory Projects and Fellowships  \n\n\n\n15:30 – 16:30 – Roundtable discussion with Roz Davies (CEO\, The Green Estate)\, Dalia Othman (Co-Executive Director\, The Engine Room) & Titiksha Vashist (Co-Founder and Lead Researcher\, The Pranava Institute) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGetting here\n\n\n\nTravel advice can be found on the AccessAble access guide for Nexus. Please contact Rosie Wilkinson if you would like to reserve a parking space. Note that parking at the University is limited\, so early booking is advised. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQ\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWho is this event for?\n\n\n\nOur annual event for 2024 is targeted at INCLUDE+ grantees\, the communities linked to our current feasibility studies and participants in our Art Iterations workshop series\, on an invitation basis. This is to allow us to focus on shaping future calls and reflect on the application of our network’s principals and methods. Attendance will in no way prejudice the outcome of future funding calls\, which are reviewed anonymously by our panel.\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m not an academic or a researcher – will I be able to contribute?\n\n\n\nAbsolutely! INCLUDE+ values all forms of expertise and is particularly keen to engage with organisations and individuals across industry\, the public sector and the third sector. Workshop sessions will be led by our diverse feasibility study teams and Art Iterations facilitators\, and will give a taster of the methods of engagement and co-production methods that they are using. We only ask that you come with an open mind and a sense of curiosity.\n\n\n\n\n\nAre travel bursaries available?\n\n\n\nINCLUDE+ has a limited budget to cover participant travel and accommodation for those who would otherwise be unable to attend our events. If this applies to you\, please add your requirements to the registration form\, so that we can book in advance on your behalf. For car mileage\, or if you would prefer to make your own travel arrangements\, we are also able to provide expense claim forms after the event. Information about permissible rates will be provided on request.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStill have more questions?\n\n\n\nPlease feel free to get in touch with INCLUDE+ Coordinator Rosie Wilkinson (r.h.wilkinson@leeds.ac.uk)\, or any other members of the Management Group.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER
URL:https://includeplus.org/event/meaningful-digital-inclusion/
LOCATION:Nexus\, University of Leeds\, Discovery Way\, Leeds\, LS2 3AA\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Cycling is my love language: language\, neurodiversity\, and creative practice
DESCRIPTION:Screenshot of Zofia’s documentation of her cycling journey on Instagram. \n\n\n\nLed by Zofia Kuligowska\, an artist\, PhD candidate\, and neurodivergent mother\, this seminar invites attendees to explore an interdisciplinary journey of language\, neurodiversity\, and creative practice. Zofia’s work centers around performance art and language\, with a focus on how neurodivergent individuals engage with language as a tool for creative expression. Diagnosed with autism in adulthood\, Zofia brings a personal and professional lens to her artistic research\, combining auto-ethnographic methods with collaborative practices. \n\n\n\nThe seminar is based on Zofia’s cycling research journey\, in which she will cycle from Sokołowsko\, Poland\, to Dublin\, Ireland\, in September 2024. This journey builds upon a 2012 trip and now serves as a method for both artistic exploration and networking with neurodivergent artists across Europe. \n\n\n\nTopics will include: \n\n\n\n\nHow neurodivergent individuals engage with language beyond its communicative functions.\n\n\n\nThe issues neurodivergent women face in society\, particularly in relation to artistic expression and diagnosis.\n\n\n\nThe impact of language as a force and how artists use this in their work.\n\n\n\n\nZofia will also discuss her goal of co-creating collaborative\, language-based artworks with fellow neurodiverse artists\, drawing from their experiences and interactions across different countries. She has a particular interest in Hiberno-English\, a linguistic phenomenon in Ireland\, which is home to many renowned literary works. \n\n\n\nThis session is open to researchers\, artists\, and anyone interested in neurodiversity\, language\, and arts. It will provide insight into Zofia’s practice and her vision for reshaping how we think about language and creativity through neurodiverse perspectives. \n\n\n\nROOM 1.17 \n\n\n\nSchool of Media and Communication  \n\n\n\nThe University of Leeds\, Woodhouse\, Leeds LS2 9JT
URL:https://includeplus.org/event/cycling-is-my-love-language-language-neurodiversity-and-creative-practice/
LOCATION:School of Media and Communication – University of Leeds
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SUMMARY:digital youth work: [co]mapping the field in the making
DESCRIPTION:Despite its growing importance\, digital youth work is still fragmented\, sitting between various disciplines and often divided between policy papers and academic research. Together\, we will reflect on my early analysis of the field and work towards co-mapping existing research to create a more visible and unified presence. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is an opportunity for us to start a journey of mutual understanding. We’ll discuss how/if we can ensure digital youth work serves the sector’s needs while also carving out a space for itself within academic discourse. I also want us to explore some of the contradictions in our theoretical approaches\, recognising how these shape the field and identifying gaps we can address moving forward. \n\n\n\nBy the end of our session\, I hope we will have co-created strategies and networks to enhance the visibility and recognition of digital youth work\, ensuring its growth and development in meaningful ways. \n\n\n\nKey Takeaways: \n\n\n\n\nReflect on the current landscape of digital youth work and its fragmented nature\n\n\n\nCo-map existing research to create a more visible and recognised field\n\n\n\nDiscuss ways to bridge the divide between policy papers and academic research\n\n\n\nIdentify contradictions in theoretical approaches and how they impact the field\n\n\n\nBegin building mutual understanding and actionable steps for the future of digital youth work\n\n\n\n\nWho Should Attend:I am inviting youth workers\, researchers\, policymakers\, tech organisation representatives\, young people in the sector\, educators\, and practitioners interested in the future of digital youth work. \n\n\n\nRegistration via Eventbrite [LINK} \n\n\n\nFacilitator: Dr. Alicja Pawluczuk
URL:https://includeplus.org/event/digital-youth-workcomapping-the-field-in-the-making/
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SUMMARY:IN+ Principles in practice: feasibility study funding workshop 2024
DESCRIPTION:Join the IN+ Team for a practical workshop designed to guide you through the key steps of developing a successful project proposal for our 2024 Feasibility Study funding call. In this session\, we will: \n\n\n\n\nExplore the types of projects we are looking to fund\, focusing on digital equity\, civic culture\, wellbeing\, and precarity\n\n\n\nProvide guidance on what to include in your application\, ensuring your proposal aligns with the INCLUDE+ Principles\n\n\n\nDiscuss how to foster collaboration with diverse partners from academia\, the public\, and third sectors\n\n\n\nShare insights on how your project can generate meaningful digital civic action\, centred around community needs\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop is for those looking to apply for our Feasibility Funding Call 2024 by co-developing interdisciplinary\, community-driven projects that align with our vision of creating socially equitable digital futures. You will leave with an understanding of the proposal process\, and the IN+ Principles that underpin all our funded work. \n\n\n\nRegistration via Eventbrite.
URL:https://includeplus.org/event/in-principles-in-practice-feasibility-study-funding-workshop-2024/
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SUMMARY:Relational Digital Inclusion: The Politics of Care and Connection
DESCRIPTION:Our third annual INCLUDE+ event spotlights the 2024–2025 cohort of funded projects that tackle the complex realities of digital inclusion. These projects speak to the contradictions of digital inclusion today: being connected but excluded\, visible in systems but unheard in decisions. At a time of limited resources and growing need\, they offer grounded\, local responses that question assumptions and expand what digital inclusion can mean in practice.   \n\n\n\nRecent developments such as the UK Government’s Digital Inclusion Action Plan and the publication of Digital Minimum Standards suggest there is still space and momentum for change. Combined with what we’ve learned from the INCLUDE+ project communities\, and drawing on the IN+ Principles\, these developments give us new tools and perspectives: They remind us that even in an unpredictable and uneven landscape\, there is potential to build more grounded\, inclusive\, and sustainable futures if we do it together.  \n\n\n\nOur third INCLUDE+ event will spotlight the 2024–2025 cohort of projects supported by the network. These projects speak to the contradictions of digital inclusion today: being connected but excluded\, visible in systems but unheard in decisions. At a time of limited resources and growing need\, they offer grounded\, local responses that question assumptions and expand what digital inclusion can mean in practice. \n\n\n\nWe bring together people working across youth work\, health\, education\, migration\, disability justice\, and community organising in order to share methods\, reflect on common challenges\, and explore how digital inclusion is being defined and delivered from the ground up. Through interactive sessions and project-led activities\, we’ll explore the strategies\, questions\, and relationships that underpin this work. We’ll end the day with collective reflection\, asking what is needed now to ensure digital inclusion is not only a goal\, but a shared\, sustained and community-led practice. \n\n\n\nWe ask:  \n\n\n\n\nHow can we move beyond access to build digital systems rooted in care\, fairness\, and lived experience? \n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to be digitally included?\n\n\n\nWho gets to shape digital tools\, and whose voices are left out of policy decisions?\n\n\n\n\nOur event will include: \n\n\n\n\nProject presentations\n\n\n\nPanel discussion\n\n\n\nWorkshops\n\n\n\nIN+ ART Iterations\n\n\n\nExploration of our network’s core principles\n\n\n\n\nOur mission\n\n\n\nINCLUDE+ is a UKRI/EPSRC funded network exploring how social and digital environments can be built\, shaped and sustained to enable all people to thrive. The five-year programme of activities (2022-2027) will 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 \n\n\n\nProgramme\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTimeDescription09:30 – 10:00 Registration and facilitated informal table discussions Little Woodhouse 10:00 – 10:30 Welcome address / IN+ Principles across the IN+ Network activities Great Woodhouse  Feasibility Studies Workshops10:30 – 11:00 Youth Digital Cultures Lab Beechgrove Room Online Objectification St George Room 11:00 – 11:10 Break 11:10 – 11:40 Our Futures and AI Beechgrove Room Advokit St George Room 11:40 – 12:00 Break 12:00 – 13:00 Roundtable DiscussionGreat Woodhouse – Jason Tutin\, 100% Digital Leeds– Andrina Dawson\, Voluntary Action Leeds– Uma Amara\, International Labour Organisation– Irene Mackintosh\, Mhor Collective13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Little Woodhouse 14:00 – 15:00 Exploratory Projects and Fellowships Showcase  Beechgrove Room – See the Whole of Me – AI in Everyday Life – Youth Voice – Mapping the IN+ Principles Across the NetworkSt George Room – Truths– Fostering Digital Cultural Participation Leeds – Leeds Digital Volunteering– Gifting Smartphones to People Seeking Asylum15:00 – 15:15 Break15:15 – 16:45 IN+ ART Iterations WorkshopLittle Woodhouse 16:45 – 17:00 Close Little Woodhouse \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeasibility Study Workshops\n\n\n\nChoose one workshop for each session \n\n\n\nSession 1\, 10:30 – 11:00\n\n\n\nYouth Digital Cultures Lab\nHow do we imagine digital futures that are inclusive\, joyful and rooted in non- western paradigms with young individuals? \n\n\n\nThe Youth Digital Cultures Lab seeks to bring together diverse young people from India to meaningfully engage with their experiences of diversity\, joy and meaningful inclusion in digital environments. Our earlier work with INCLUDE+ has shown that diversity remains a key element and factors such as language\, location\, culture\, profession\, education and social groups impact how young people interact\, subvert\, and imagine digital environments in their individual and collective lives. By co-developing speculative and participatory design methodologies with young people\, the lab will deepen and foster non-western understandings and reimaginations of digital environments. This participatory workshop invites you to think\, reflect and build with us. We will explore the core question: ‘What do digital futures look like?’. \n\n\n\n\nOnline Objectification\nExploring barriers to digital civic participation through an anti-objectification intervention \n\n\n\nThis project explores how girls and young women experience objectifying content on social media and will develop intervention resources to foster resilience against harmful content. Drawing on Ofcom’s Online Nation 2023 report\, which highlights the prevalence of such online harm\, the project takes an intersectional approach to understand how vulnerabilities accumulate across gender\, race\, sexuality\, and disability. \n\n\n\nThis workshop will explore what objectification is and how it unfolds for young women in the online space. Participants will be asked to contribute words / short descriptions of objectifying content that will be used to co-develop themes for analysis of participant interviews. If times allows\, we will then use the themes to group anonymised extracts from participant interviews. \n\n\n\n\n\nSession 2\,  11:10 – 11:40\n\n\n\n\nOur Futures and AI\nCome and find out about our youth-led research project to explore the impact that generative AI is having\, particularly on young people’s lives.  The young people have chosen to explore body image\, politics\, university admissions and who pays for AI. The workshop will include an opportunity to participate in the project outputs which will include some guidance for the youth work sector in Scotland. \n\n\n\n\nAdvokit\nDisabled Welfare Experiences and Envisioned Futures under AI Governance \n\n\n\nThis workshop will explore the accessibility challenges faced by people living with communication disabilities such as aphasia in applying for disability benefits. It will present current barriers encountered within public service systems\, including those exacerbated by recent AI-driven changes to disability benefit administration. Participants will be invited to join us in co-developing accessible toolkits designed to empower people with aphasia in navigating these complex systems. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation & Accessibility\n\n\n\nUniversity House is centrally located on the University of Leeds campus and room used for our event can be found on Level 2 of the building. Click on the map below to see its location or visit the AccessAble website for a full access guide to University House. \n\n\n\nThe Find Us page of the University of Leeds website provides a full travel guide. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQ\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAre travel bursaries available?\n\n\n\nINCLUDE+ has a limited budget to cover participant travel and accommodation for those who would otherwise be unable to attend our events. If this applies to you\, please add your requirements to the registration form\, so that we can book in advance on your behalf. For car mileage\, or if you would prefer to make your own travel arrangements\, we are also able to provide expense claim forms after the event. Information about permissible rates will be provided on request.\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m not an academic or a researcher – will I be able to contribute?\n\n\n\nAbsolutely! INCLUDE+ values all forms of expertise and is particularly keen to engage with organisations and individuals across industry\, the public sector and the third sector. Workshop sessions will be led by our diverse feasibility study teams and Art Iterations facilitators\, and will give a taster of the methods of engagement and co-production methods that they are using. We only ask that you come with an open mind and a sense of curiosity.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStill have more questions?\n\n\n\nPlease contact the INCLUDE+ Coordinator\, Rosie Wilkinson\, if you have any further queries or would like to speak to a member of our Management Group.\n\n\n\nGet in touch
URL:https://includeplus.org/event/relational-digital-inclusion-the-politics-of-care-and-connection/
LOCATION:University House\, University of Leeds\, Lifton PLace\, Leeds\, LS2 9JT
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