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Wednesday, 16 November 2022

My internship experience: Being an Online Conference Content Creator at Open Lab for PDC2022

Paulina Jacyna talks about her experience doing an internship with Open Lab for the PDC conference held in August 2022.

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Monday, 7 November 2022

New consultation gives customers a chance to shape the future of Metro

Tyne and Wear Metro customers are getting a new opportunity to shape the future of the service.

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Tuesday, 2 August 2022

Participatory Design Conference: Embracing Cosmologies

The 17th Participatory Design Conference will be hosted here in Newcastle Upon Tyne, however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and with a desire to make PDC more inclusive while reducing its carbon footprint, they are holding PDC Places events all over the world.

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Friday, 10 June 2022

Two CDTs, a hotel and a lot of writing

What happens when you take two CDTs for three days to Ramside Hall? A whole bunch of writing.

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Monday, 30 May 2022

Engagement and Place Awards: another win for Open Lab

Second win for Open Lab at the Newcastle University Engagement and Place Awards on 20 May.

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Tuesday, 7 December 2021

From Digital Economy to Digital Citizens: the end of Digital Economy Research Centre

Open Lab at Newcastle University and Northumbria University are celebrating the end of the Digital Economy Research Centre (DERC), which began in 2015.

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Monday, 8 November 2021

Lose control to gain knowledge: participatory design

What does it feel like to hand over control and do participatory design research with the same participants for over two years? PhD student Peter Glick talks about his experience creating My Care Budget, a wiki to help people manage their Personal Health Budget (PHB) or care budget.

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Wednesday, 29 September 2021

Getting back together at the CDT Writing Retreat at Slaley Hall

Like most of the UK, Open Lab has been working remotely since the end of March 2020. Despite the pressures of the pandemic, working from home, often in a displaced way, Open Lab has continued to be productive. We have continued to research, to work with our communities, and submit to conferences. However, many of us missed working together in person.

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Tuesday, 16 March 2021

Tentative steps in the right direction to end violence against women, but not a victory yet

The UK House of Lords voted in favour to include a national perpetrator strategy in the Domestic Abuse Bill, a tentative step forward in the campaign to end violence against women amongst a frustrating week.

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Tuesday, 8 December 2020

New Centre for Digital Citizens to address challenges of digital citizenship

A new £9M research centre that will allow citizens across the country to grasp the possibilities of the digital revolution has been announced.

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Friday, 27 November 2020

Open Lab research recognised by national awards

From Young Digital Leader of the Year to Project of the Year - here's a round-up of some of the awards we've won in 2020.

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Friday, 7 August 2020

Welcome to the Ministry of Multispecies Communications

Rachel Clarke talks about making the Ministry of Multispecies Communications walk into a virtual one, as part of the HCI summer festival.

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Friday, 7 August 2020

Not-Equal - Democratising access to digital technology and services

As part of the HCI Summer Festival, Not-Equal ran a panel asking how we can work towards the democratisation of access to digital technologies, particularly in response to how communities can work around COVID-19 restrictions.

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Friday, 7 August 2020

Running a week long virtual event - the HCI summer festival

Emily Barker, Communications Offer at Open Lab, talks about how we along with HCID and North Lab built a virtual festival in less than a month in response to the canceled CHI 2020 conference (along with other conferences) due to the COVID19 pandemic.

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Friday, 7 August 2020

Collective reflection on cross-cultural and value-sensitive design

Doctoral Trainee Tag Alshehri brought together researchers from different countries for an open discussion reflecting on their experiences, success and struggles in working within cultural and value-sensitive settings in design research, as part of the HCI summer festival.

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Friday, 7 August 2020

Phone-grown re-purposing obsolete phones

In the short time span of 90 minutes, three teams of four minds stuck their (virtual) heads together to explore potential approaches to repurpose ‘obsolete’ smartphones, David Verweij and Dan Jackson give a brief summary of the Phone Grown creative sprint from the HCI summer festival.

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Friday, 7 August 2020

Reflecting on design research in the online wild

As part of the HCI Summer festival, Simon Bowen, Alexander Wilson and Sunil Rodger ran the workshop 'Research in the Online Wild' looking at how you can do public consultation during periods of lockdown and social distancing, here is their summary of the discussion.

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Friday, 7 August 2020

Civic tech and making places

As part of the HCI Summer Festival, Jennifer Manuel and Sean Peacock ran the Civic Tech and Making Places interactive workshop bringing together a range of people to talk about placemaking and the potential to use civic technology which didn't disappoint.

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Friday, 7 August 2020

Digital careers and HCI

In the Digital Careers and HCI panel discussion at the HCI Summer Festival, we explored how people with HCI researchers could translate that experience into careers in the digital industry.

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Sunday, 8 September 2019

Using tech to improve collaborative learning for schoolchildren

Students from Open Lab's Digital Civics CDT have worked with hundreds of schoolchildren to improve their creativity, give them practical skills and connect them with schools on the other side of the world.

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