Katie French

I have worked in Open Lab for more than 3 years in various roles, including co-ordinating the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Civics and the EPSRC-funded EPSRC Centre for Digital Citizens (CDC).

My current role is as the Manager of the EPSRC Northern Health Futures (NortHFutures) Digital Health Hub. NortHFutures is a £7 million, UKRI/EPSRC-funded digital health innovation hub that brings together universities, NHS organisations, industry, and community partners to address unmet health and care needs across the North East and North Cumbria. It supports community-centred research, innovation, training, and health-tech development to tackle health inequalities, digital exclusion, and long-term health challenges through responsible and inclusive digital solutions.

My professional background is as a project manager in multimedia localisation and publishing, working on games, encyclopaedias and educational products. More recently I took a PgDip in Museum Studies at Newcastle University, and have worked in the Exhibitions Team of Durham University’s Palace Green Library, co-ordinating interdisciplinary exhibition projects with academics, artists and library and archive staff.