An
@esrc
-funded, £4 million research network building a research community focused on what a good digital society should look like and how we get there.
We are delighted to announce the launch of the ESRC Digital Good Network (DGN)!
This new
@esrc
-funded, £4 million research network aims to advance understanding of what good digital tech looks like:
"Critique alone is not enough to shape better digital futures."
Join us for a keynote lecture from
@LukaszSzulc
on Feminist and Queer Manifestos for Digital Utopias.
When: 22 June, 1pm to 2.45pm 📅
Where:
@sheffielduni
and online
Sign up 👉
Looking for research funding?
On 7 March we will be launching a new fund for research on what a good digital society could look like and how we get there.
Find out more at our lunchtime discussion series 👇
Exciting news from us!
We will soon be announcing our new
#fundingopportunities
for all things
#digitalgood
!
Don't miss out - sign up for our newsletter now to be one of the first to hear about it:
Please share in your networks.
🚨 Launched today: our new research internships scheme for PhD students to undertake funded three-month placements.
Apply to work with one of our partners
@BBCRD
,
@zincvc
&
@TechForGoodCAST
- or nominate your own internship host.
Find out more 👇
If you're a PhD student working on issues relating to the digital good and you're interested in gaining experience from other sectors, our PhD research internships scheme could be perfect for you!
Express your interest by 31 July, details here 👇👇
🚨 Launched today: our new research internships scheme for PhD students to undertake funded three-month placements.
Apply to work with one of our partners
@BBCRD
,
@zincvc
&
@TechForGoodCAST
- or nominate your own internship host.
Find out more 👇
How can people be actively involved and included in the governance and use of their own data?
Join
@Reema__Patel
as we launch a new project on participatory and inclusive data stewardship.
When: 26 Oct, 2pm 📅
Where: online and 100 St John Street, London 📍
Sign up👇
Want to find our more about our research funding opportunities? Sign up for our events 👇
Tues 7 March at 13:00, ask our panel of experts, ‘What is the digital good?’ with
@hmtk
,
@ginasue
and
@roswillz
- chaired by
@Reema__Patel
Sign up:
Tonight's 'Digital technologies, mental health and wellbeing' event includes
@ysabelgerrard
talking about young people and the contrasting experiences they have online when negotiating their identities.
#FoSS2023
#digitalgood
The deadline for our Digital Good Research Fund is in just over two weeks!⏰
Watch our Director, Helen Kennedy
@hmtk
, explain more about the fund and what we are looking for📹
Find out more👉
🚨New research funding available! 🚨
The Digital Good Research Fund will provide funding for small-scale, pilot and scoping projects on how digital technologies can work for people and society.
Find out more 👇 &
Deadline: 28 April 📅
#digitalgood
Interested in the link between digital technologies, mental health and wellbeing?
Join our discussion as part of the
@ESRC
Festival of Social Science.
When:📅18:00 on Mon 30 Oct
Where: Online or
@99MaryStreet
Find out more and sign up now:
We want to hear from you!👂
Here at the Digital Good Network, we are compiling a shared resource on relevant orgs, guidance and toolkits for using digital technologies in good, responsible + just ways.
Have ideas for orgs/toolkits/guidance we should consider? Add them here👇
🚨PhD studentships available🚨
Applications now open for two Digital Good Network PhD studentships
@sheffielduni
- submit your research proposal for projects relating to the digital good.
Deadline: 26 June
Link:
Are you a PhD student researching what a good digital society should look like?
Join the 2023 Digital Good Network Summer School. Find out more 👇
Link:
📣We're hiring! A Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital Wellness and Disinformation, based in Sheffield.
This role will work with our internationalisation lead
@jonathan_c_ong
on
#DigitalWellness
+
#Disinformation
.
Visit: + search the role title.
⏰14 Apr
Early Career Researcher (ECR) webinar about Digital Good Network funding opportunities 2024
Part of the ‘Digital Good Research Fund 2024: call for applications’ webinar series
Tuesday 27 February 2024, 12.30 – 1.30PM (UK time)
#digitalgood
We are excited to announce Lukasz Szulc
@LukaszSzulc
as the keynote speaker at our 2023 Digital Good Network Summer School.
Join to hear his views on critical and cultural studies of digital media at the intersections of gender, sexuality and transnationalism.
#digitalgood
📢We're hiring!
We are seeking a professional and organised individual to oversee the communications, engagement, and impact activities of the Digital Good Network.
⏰Apply by Sept 11
Find out more:
We are delighted to announce our keynote speaker for our January 2024 Showcase is Charlton McIlwain, author of 'Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice – From the Afronet to Black Lives Matter'.
Join us in Sheffield or online.
Tickets at:
@NYU
We are delighted that our Associate Director Gina Neff
@ginasue
(from
@MCTDCambridge
) will lead the Strategy Group of the new £31 million ESRC
@responsibleaiuk
consortium.
We look forward to working with the consortium on how to build a good, responsible future for AI.
Sign up for our webinar for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) about our Digital Good Research Fund opportunities 2024.
Tues 27 February 2024, 12.30 – 1.30PM (UK time)
#digitalgood
#ECRs
#earlycareerresearchers
Our Director, Professor Helen Kennedy, is taking the debate about the
#digitalgood
to
@Mkv_Sodertorn
in Sweden this week.
Discussing questions such as: what digital world can we not live without? And who decides what the 'digital good' actually is?
📢 Come along to our public event about digital technology, mental health & wellbeing on Mon 30th Oct.
In person or online.
Part of the
@ESRC
Festival of Social Science held in
#Sheffield
.
#ESRCFestival
#digitalgood
Register via:
We are delighted to announce the launch of the ESRC Digital Good Network (DGN).
This new
@esrc
-funded, £4 million research network aims to advance understanding of what good digital tech looks like:
Find out more:
Are you a PhD student working on issues relating to the digital good?
Soon we will launch our research internships scheme, for PhD students to undertake funded three-month research placements.
Find out more 👇 and at our information session on 22 June:
What is the digital good?
Read more from our Director, Prof Helen Kennedy
@hmtk
, ahead of our Digital Good Research Fund launch tomorrow.
#digitalgood
"Design can act as the bridge between two worlds - we can help build interdisciplinary teams to rethink and see how we might do things differently." Dan Richards
@imaginationlanc
speaking at our online event on our funding opportunities
#digitalgood
Call for all digital artists. Join us for a 1-month online artist residency, our open call is now LIVE.
Apply by Fri April 12 midnight (GMT).
Want a sneak peek of our online residency space? Check it out below!
...
#digitalgood
📢Opportunities at DGN!
We are currently recruiting two roles:
➡️Full-time Network Manager for 5 years (deadline 12/12/2022)
➡️0.5 Communications, Engagement and Impact Officer for six years (deadline 5/12/2022).
Details can be found at:
Want to connect with other researchers/relevant stakeholders to form teams for a Digital Good Research Fund bid?
Our online research team formation sandpit/webinar brings potential teams together.
Deadline to express interest in taking part is Mon 5 Feb.
There's still time to get your tickets for our Keynote Lecture from
@cmcilwain
. Attend either online or in person in
#Sheffield
.
A great chance to hear from this outstanding academic and author of Black Software:
#digitalgood
Helen Kennedy
@hmtk
now at a Sheffield pub talk - "Seeking a good digital society will involve hashing out our differences, standing up for our vision, disagreeing with each other, and facing impasses. But this is better than oversimplifying the challenge."
#digitalgood
What does the 'good' use of digital technology in museums and the cultural sector look like?
Join us and
@BM_AG
to explore good uses of digital tech in museums and the cultural sector.
⏰18:00 BST
📅Thu 28th Sep
📍
@BOMlab
Birmingham
Register now:
We are seeking a highly motivated, professional and organised individual to join the Digital Good Network as a Network Manager. 1/3
(Application deadline 12/12/2022)
Tomorrow is our live Q&A about all of our new funding opportunities into the
#digitalgood
.
Get your FREE tickets now - and find out about our research fund, fellowships & summer school.
Live Q&A webinar about our 2024 funding opportunities - ESRC Digital Good Network
@ESRC
There’s still time to apply for our online artist residency!
Theme: Digital Identities Over Time.
Apply by Friday April 12th midnight (GMT).
#digitalgood
#digitalartists
#residency
Looking forward to welcoming Charlton McIlwain to
#Sheffield
on 18 January, when he will give our Keynote Lecture.
Author of 'Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter'
Online & in person tickets:
Our event 'Digital technologies, mental health and wellbeing' tonight includes reflections on how the
#wellness
agenda can be used online to radicalise.
#FoSS2023
#digitalgood
📢 Come along to the launch of the new
@ESRC
-funded project on participatory and inclusive data stewardship, led by
@digitalgoodnet
with
@AdaLovelaceInst
and
@CivicDataCoop
When: 14:00, Tues 26 Oct
Where: in person (100 St John Street, London) & online
Get your FREE tickets to our webinar this Friday.
Led by Scott Hale (
@computermacgyve
) from our Management Board (also Associate Professor at
@oiioxford
@UniofOxford
, Research Fellow at
@turinginst
and Director of Research at
@meedan
).
Learn about our funding opportunities too
Looking for partners to help join a bid for our research funding? Interested in the
#digitalgood
and want to bring in some other disciplines? A reminder to submit your expression of interest for our research funding sandpit by 14 March. Link:
We are delighted to announce the appointment of our new postdoctoral researcher, Isabelle Higgins, who will be working with
@jonathan_c_ong
on digital wellness and disinformation.
Read more about her work on our blog 👇
Our free online webinar is tomorrow (Monday) at 1pm UK time.
If you are thinking of applying for our Digital Good Research Fund and focusing on
#sustainability
, then this is for you!
Hear from Gina Neff and Dorothy Kleine.
Get your free tickets at:
Looking forward to welcoming
@cmcilwain
to
#Sheffield
in a couple of weeks, when he will give the Keynote Lecture at our January Showcase event.
If you want to see this expert in race and digital theory in person, sign up for free tickets:
#digitalgood
OPEN CALL: Looking for 4 digital artists to join us for an online residency in May.
Theme: Digital Identities Over Time.
Apply by Friday April 12th midnight (GMT).
URL in comments.
#digitalgood
@KimSnooks
A great vlog post from our very own
@ClaireHMcCallum
about Evaluating the Digital Good
As Research & Impact Manager at
@zincvc
she provides a useful industry perspective
Essential watching if applying to our 2024 Digital Good Research Fund
#digitalgood
A reminder about our workshops this week.
We are looking for:
- social scientists with research interests such as digital rights & ethics of technology,
- individuals, businesses &organisations that are interested in discussing the future of digital IDs.
Are you an artist interested in data mining and/or machine learning to develop artistic ideas and conversations?
Patterns in Practice (PIP)
@LifeOfData
have launched an open call for an Artist Residency.
Closing Date: Mon 4 September, 09:00 BST ⬇️