Jennifer Manuel
Digital Civics Doctoral Trainee
I have an interest in how HCI and technology can better support civic policymaking processes and the planning system to better engage communities in decisions about the places in which they live. My research has focused specifically on neighbourhood planning, working with communities and planning professionals to consider the suitability of the process itself, and the role that technology could play within that. More broadly, I am interested in civic participation in democracy, planning and health, and the use of participatory methodologies to involve people in decisions more creatively.
I have a BA and MA in Town Planning and a MRes in Digital Civics. Prior to joining Open Lab, I worked in the voluntary and community sector both in the planning field and in health, with a focus on citizen participation. I facilitated a number of community-led placemaking projects, including one of the first frontrunner Neighbourhood Plans, as well as engaging communities in health service pathway reviews for the NHS.
Place-Based Policymaking and HCI
Metro Futures: Co-designing the future of Tyne and Wear Metro
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2021
Enhancing citizen engagement in planning through participatory film-making
2021 – Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
2020
Place-Based Policymaking and HCI: Opportunities and Challenges for Technology Design
2020 – CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2018
Neighbourhood Data: Exploring the Role of Open Data in Locally Devolved Policymaking Processes
2018 – Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
2017
Participatory Media: Creating Spaces for Storytelling in Neighbourhood Planning
2017 – ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Community Conversational: Supporting and Capturing Deliberative Talk in Local Consultation Processes
2017 – CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems