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The UCL Knowledge Lab explores how we live and learn with technology and media.
Director: Professor Allison Littlejohn
Associate Director (Media/ReMAP): Professor John Potter
The UCL Knowledge Lab is a research laboratory working to reduce social barriers to knowledge, bringing together experts with imagination and insight from across different disciplinary backgrounds to undertake cutting edge research on digital media and technologies.
The work of the the Lab focuses on the following research themes:
- Technology and human learning, led by Professor Allison Littlejohn.
- Technology, body and communication, led by Professor Lesley Gourlay.
- Media, culture, technology, led by Professor Diane Carr.
- AI and education, led by Professor Kaska Porayska-Pomsta.
- Media arts and play, led by Professor John Potter.
We centre multimodality and co-design as methodological approaches.
About us
- Our values
- Innovation – we value interdisciplinary collaboration and pride ourselves on our creativity in developing innovative and participatory methods in multimodal, design-based and practice-based research.
- Integrity – we strive for an honest and respectful approach in our interactions with colleagues, students and external collaborators and aim to conduct ethical research with positive and lasting impact on people’s lived experience.
- Inclusion – we value diversity and are strongly committed to developing ways of working with technology which contribute to equity and social justice.
- Background
The UCL Knowledge Lab extends the legacy of the London Knowledge Lab.
The London Knowledge lab was led since 2004 by Professors Richard Noss and Alex Poulovassilis as a collaborative initiative between educators from IOE and computer scientists from Birkbeck, funded by the Science Research Investment Fund.
In 2016 the collaborative initiative ended and the UCL Knowledge Lab was established. Our common legacy includes over a decade of interdisciplinary research funded by ESRC, EPSRC, AHRC, EU, JISC among others; a variety of knowledge exchange and public engagement activities; and a distinctive postgraduate training programme.
- Our people
Director
- Allison Littlejohn, Professor of Learning and Technology
Associate Director
- John Potter, Professor of Media in Education
Founding Director
- Richard Noss, Professor of Mathematics Education
Academic staff
- Feryal Awan, Lecturer in Media and Postcolonial Studies
- Jeff Bezemer, Professor of Communication
- Michelle Cannon, Lecturer in Media Education
- Diane Carr, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies
- Alison Clark-Wilson, Professorial Research Fellow
- Alison Croasdale, Lecturer in Digital Media: Education
- Mutlu Cukurova, Professor of Learning and Artificial Intelligence
- Bruno De Paula, Associate Professor
- Sophia Diamantopoulou, Senior Teaching Fellow
- Francisco Durán del Fierro, Research Fellow
- Hakan Ergul, Associate Professor
- Andrea Gauthier, Lecturer and Programme Leader in MA Education and Technology
- Makeda Gerressu, Research Fellow
- Kate Gilchrist, Lecturer in Digital Media: Critical Studies
- Lesley Gourlay, Professor of Education
- Sara Hawley, Lecturer in Digital Media
- Wayne Holmes, Professor of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence and Education
- Carey Jewitt, Professor of Learning and Technology
- Eileen Kennedy, Professorial Research Fellow
- Kata Kyrola, Associate Professor in Media Studies
- Kit Logan, Learning Technology Fellow
- Manolis Mavrikis, Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Analytics in Education
- Tim Neumann, Learning Technology Fellow
- Martin Oliver, Professor in Educational technology
- Ceja Omar Salgado, Lecturer (Teaching) Media Production
- Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Professor of Artificial Intelligence in Education
- Sara Price, Professor of Digital Learning
- Jennifer Rode, Associate Professor of Education and Technology
- Christopher Rhodes, Lecturer in Digital Media Production
- John Twycross, Lecturer in 3D Animation
- Asimina Vasalou, Professor of Learning with Digital Technology
- Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Lecturer in Critical Media Practice
- Lucia Gloria Vazquez Rodriguez, Lecturer in Digital Media Production
- Karen Wilkes, Lecturer in Critical Media Studies
Lab staff based at UCL East
- Anne Preston, Associate Professor (Teaching) of Interdisciplinary Practice and Media Communities
- Ao Chen, Lecturer in 3D Design
- Ariel Cane, Lecturer in Media Practice
- Beny Wagner, Lecturer in Media Production
- Brigitta Zics, Professor of Digital Media
- Dane Sutherland, Lecturer in Media Practice
- Eunju Hwang, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship
- Fawzia Mahmood, Lecturer in Film Producing
- Gyorgy Beck, Associate Professor
- Jamie Rhodes, Lecturer in Creative Writing
- Jelena Viskovic, Lecturer in Games Design
- Justin Hardy, Lecturer in Film
- Livia Nolasco-Rózsás, Lecturer in Media Practice and Curation
- Luciano Piazza, Lecturer in Documentary Film
- Michael Hrebeniak, Lecturer in Documentary Film
- William Sykes, Lecturer in Games Programming
Administrative and technical staff
- Abel Drew, Studio Technician
- Holly Nyx, UCL Knowledge Lab Administrator
- Johan Redderson, Games/Interactive Experiences
- Matt Taylor, Programme Administrator
- Monique Wan, Programme Administrator
- Robin Billingham, Studio Technician
- Sustika Limbu, BA Media Technician: Equipment and Resource Management
- Tamas Czuper, Technician – Sound Production
- Yasmeen Conraad, Programme Administrator
Emeritus Professors
- Andrew Burn, Professor of English, Media and Drama
- Celia Hoyles, Professor of Mathematics Education
- Diana Laurillard, Professor of Learning with Digital Technologies
- Richard Noss, Professor of Mathematics Education
- Rose Luckin, Professor of Learning with Digital Technologies
Honorary academics
- Alice Hansen
- Ben Bachmair
- Cary Bazalgette
- Canan Blake
- David Buckingham
- Didem Ozkul
- Ernesto Laval
- Ivan Kalas
- Jade Henry
- Jim Knight
- Jos Boys
- Kate Cowan
- Kerstin Leder Mackley
- Nikoleta Yiannoutsou
- Robin Samuelsson
- Rym El Moussaoui
- Simon Knight
- Sokratis Karkalas
- Stuart Edwards
- Vanessa Pittard
- Rod Bristow
20 Years of Knowledge Lab
This year we celebrate #20YearsKnowledgeLab. The Lab, based at Emerald Street in High Holborn, London, and hosted by UCL IOE is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s leading research centres in human learning, media and technology. It was established in 2004 as the London Knowledge Lab, a collaboration of educators from the Institute of Education and computer scientists from Birkbeck, initially funded by the UK Government Science Research Investment Fund.
To celebrate our 20 year anniversary we are planning a number of events.
Research and activities
Find out more about current and past research from the UCL Knowledge Lab.
More about our researchers, publications, activities, groups and themes:
- Join our events
The seminars are free to attend and are open to staff, students, alumni and the public. For booking instruction for non-UCL attendees, please view the individual event pages.
The Richard Noss Lecture is our yearly public lecture. You can view past versions of this event here.
We also host occasional Visiting Lecturers, guest academics, and collaborators with the Lab.
Follow the UCL Knowledge Lab Twitter for updates.
- Consultancy services
We have substantial experience and expertise in carrying out consultancy and research projects for international, national, regional and local authorities and organisations including government departments, business and the IT sector, and voluntary groups.
Our services range from one-day training or staff development initiatives to longer-term research and evaluation work. Examples include:
- The Future Classroom Toolkit: Innovative Technologies for Engaging Classrooms (European Schoolnet)
- UK Scoping Report for the Further Education Online Academy (JISC).
- 2030 Vision for using learning technology for STEM (Royal Society)
- Piloting Media Assessment Framework (Scottish Qualifications Authority)
- The Home Access Programme Evaluation (British Educational Communications and Technology Agency)
- Automated Tutor Grading: 1 to 1 online tutoring to monitor tutor quality and learning outcomes (Third Space Learning)
- Evaluation of UK Online Paediatric care (Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health)
Study with us
- Programmes
Join us and carry out post-graduate Masters, Doctoral and Post-Doctoral research on the design, critique and implementation of digital media and technologies for education and beyond.
Undegraduate taught
Graduate taught
- Digital Media: Critical Studies MA
- Digital Media: Education MA
- Digital Media: Production MA
- Education and Technology MA
Doctoral and Post-Doctoral research
We have an active programme of teaching and support for doctoral students with experienced staff offering research supervision across a range of topics and research methods, including: digital learning technologies; technology enhanced communication and collaboration; digital making, media and play; discourse, technology and the body; digital ethics, inclusion and diversity.
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