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Sean Peacock

Sean Peacock

Doctoral Trainees

s.peacock@newcastle.ac.uk

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My PhD research looks at how digital technologies can support children and young people to make better cities for the future. These groups are often excluded from the way we plan our cities, and I think this is wrong. Prior to this, I worked as an urban planner in local government.

I’ve designed research with young people to understand the issues they face in their neighbourhoods and come up with ways to address these issues, both digital and physical. To achieve this, I’ve worked with groups in primary schools, youth councils and through a children's museum. I’ve designed lots of creative activities, tested out new and old technologies and helped them take action on important local issues. The work we’ve done together has delivered improvements to the environment and generated evidence to support local change. It's also led to the creation of toolkits that have helped generate impact from our work.

Outside of my PhD, I work as a user researcher for the UK Government, designing policy-focused research with people who use the planning system to understand how we might be able to improve it.

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Metro Futures: Co-designing the future of Tyne and Wear Metro

Design Futures
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It’s Our Future: putting young people at the centre of building their future

Design Futures
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H2020 gE.CO Living Lab: Tools for generating commons

Digital Social Innovation
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Sense Explorers: tools for children to transform the environment

Design Futures
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Sense my Street: A toolkit for data-driven change

Digital Sustainability

2022

Exploring the Impacts of Educational Simulations on The Development of 21st Century Skills and Sense of Self-Efficacy

Kensicki AE Harlow J Akhilandeswari J Peacock S Cohen J Weissman R Gordon E

2022 – Journal of Political Science Education

Open website 10.1080/15512169.2022.2080071

2021

Making sense of 'slippages': re-evaluating ethics for digital research with children and young people

Cutting K Peacock S

2021 – Children's Geographies

Open website 10.1080/14733285.2021.1906404

Sensing our Streets: Involving Children in Making People-centred Smart Cities

Peacock S Puussaar A Crivellaro C

2021 – The Routledge Handbook of Placemaking

Open website

2020

Beta Blocks: Inviting playful community exploration of smart city technologies in Boston, USA

Peacock S Harlow J Gordon E

2020 – Making Smart Cities More Playable: Exploring Playable Cities

Open website 10.1007/978-981-13-9765-3_7

2018

Streets for People: Engaging Children in Placemaking Through a Socio-technical Process

Peacock S Anderson R Crivellaro C

2018 – Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Open website 10.1145/3173574.3173901

2017

onTrack: Mapping Trains Within an Urban Metro Network Through Crowdsensing

Bowyer AJB Al-Shahrabi D Peacock S

2017 –

2016

Transport poverty and urban mobility

Palacin R Vigar G Peacock S

2016 – Justice and Fairness in the City: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to 'Ordinary' Cities

Open website

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