Rebecca Noble

I’ve joined OpenLab and the UKRI NortHFutures Hub with extensive industry experience from consultancy and civil service roles in digital and data transformation, user-centred design and co-production, and collaborative policy design and delivery. Highlights included leading research and testing for the Department for Education (DfE) into EdTech use to meet pedagogical needs in schools, which informed DfE’s pandemic response. With the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS), I led research and partnering with the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector to inform the Civil Society Strategy, and worked with local authority, HEI, and VCSE sector partners to trial innovative approaches to service design and delivery with local people and service users.

My PhD in Medical Humanities from the University of Warwick included a community collaboration with Coventry-based mental health charity Arty Folks. The co-production used a storytelling approach to prompt conversations about mental health that in turn led to an exhibition piece displayed in exhibitions across Coventry and Warwickshire between 2016-19.

I am a Visiting Researcher with NortHFutures focusing on the qualitative analysis of participatory health studies, related to digital mental health with children and families.

I hold the Visiting Research role alongside a role at the University of York where I lead analysis and design for large-scale digital and data transformation programmes.