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The UCL Knowledge Lab monthly seminar series provides a showcase and platform for debate across the six broad strands of our work.
Aims
The seminars promote discussions around our core research interests and speakers are chosen to resonate with potential and current collaborators beyond the Lab.
The series are organised around the UCL Knowledge Lab’s broad research areas, including:
- Digital ethics, inclusion and diversity
- Digital learning technologies
- Digital communication and collaboration
- Discourse, technology and the body
- Digital making, media and play.
Modes of attendance
Unless otherwise stated seminars will be hybrid events. The speaker will likely present at UCL Knowledge Lab, 23-29 Emerald Street, WC1N 3QS and there will be a limited number of spaces for audience (in line with current UCL guidelines). The seminar will also be streamed live on MS Teams.
The seminars are free to attend and all are welcome - for booking instructions for non-UCL attendees, please view the individual event pages below.
Follow the talks online via Twitter with #UCLKLtalks or subscribe to our seminar mailing list. Past seminars are available online at UCL Media Central; search for 'Knowledge Lab'.
2023/24 schedule
1 May 2024
- Exploring digital life-worlds: the postphenomenology of writing - Professors Cathy Adams and Lesley Gourlay.
7 March 2024
- Mobilising difficult knowledge in higher education and the implications for student futures - Helen Knowler
23 November 2023
- NewsWise: Developing UK primary school pupils’ news literacy skills - Gianfranco Polizzi
07 December 2023
18 January 2024
- 'Online Learning Futures': Book launch and discussion - Eileen Kennedy and Diana Laurillard
08 February 2024
- Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Resist It - Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejias
13–15 March 2024
- AI-UK Fringe event: 20 years of AIEd at the UCL Knowledge Lab - Manolis Mavrikis, Mutlu Cukurova and Kaska Porayska-Pomsta
17 April 2024
16 May 2024
- AI-driven personalised support to learning beyond problem solving - Cristina Conati
20 May 2024
- Latin American decolonial studies - Dr Pablo Soffia, Dr Haira Gandolfi, Dr Letícia Perani
Past seminars
2022/2023 schedule
22 September 2022
Multimodal learning analytics to support learning design - Michail Giannakos (NTNU)
29 September 2022
- The empathy diaries: Thinking about thinking about technology and self - Sherry Turkle (MIT)
17 November 2022
- Towards interdisciplinary cognitive neuroscience - Professor Motoaki Sugiura
22 November 2022
- How do professionals learn as they work? - Professor Shirley Agostinho
01 December 2022
- Rethinking EdTech for an age of climate crisis - Neil Selwyn
14 December 2022
- Exploring critical design and making with children - Professor Netta Livari
12 January 2023
- Developing and digitising skilled touch: Ethnographic observations on garment designers - Douglas Atkinson
9 February 2023
- Co-producing and researching post-digital sexual violence and activism workshops for under-18s - Jessica Ringrose
23 March 2023
- Designing interactive systems from a socio-technical and learning perspective - Viktoria Pammer-Schindler
4 May 2023
- Colonised by data: The costs of connection - Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejias
18 May 2023
- Innovative pedagogy and generative AI - Mike Sharples
01 June 2023
- What matters about space for learning? - Jos Boys
15 June 2023
- Professional learning for ethical AI - Simon Knight
06 July 2023
2021/2022 schedule
3 March 2022
- There Is No 'Virtual Learning': The Materiality of Digital Education - Lesley Gourlay (IOE)
7 April 2022
- Designing new interfaces to encourage us to think - Yvonne Rogers (UCLIC)
5 May 2022
- Designing the Social - Dr Harry T. Dyer (UEA)
12 May 2022
- Making the future: Constructionist tools for critical reflection and social action - Nathan Holbert (Columbia University)
15 June 2022
- A multidimensional evaluation of the effectiveness of adaptive digital educational games - Dr Stefanie Vanbecelaere (KU Leuven)
- 2019-20
Wednesday 9 October 2019
- Bodies, incorporeals, and the birth of a mathematical diagram - Ricardo Nemirovsky (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Wednesday 13 November 2019
- Mapping unbundling in the higher education terrain: South Africa and the UK - Dr Bronwen Swinnerton (University of Leeds)
Wednesday 4 December 2019
- First-person solvers: Smart video game design for good maths learning - Professor Keith Devlin (University of Stanford)
Thursday 16 January 2020
- Development and evaluation of eCREST: an online resource for future doctors - Dr Ruth Plackett (UCL) and Dr Jessica Sheringham (UCL)
Thursday 30 January 2020
- Designing writing analytics to align with classroom practices and needs - Dr Simon Knight (University of Technology Sydney)
Thursday 13 February 2020
- Designing the future of higher education through partnerships with industry and students - Professor Panos Vlachopoulos (Macquarie University)
- 2018-19
Wednesday 26 September 2018
- Supporting learning of social-emotional competencies with technology - Dr Petr Slovak (UCL Interaction Centre)
Wednesday 17 October 2018
- Young people’s digital practices: the question of generativity - Dr Rebecca Eynon (Oxford Internet Institute / Department of Education, University of Oxford)
Wednesday 14 November 2018
- Computing in primary school: Setting out for a systematic approach - Professor Ivan Kalaš (Comenius University, Slovakia)
Wednesday 5 December 2018
- Game design and learning experiences - Dr Nikoleta Giannoutsou (UCL Knowledge Lab)
Wednesday 30 January 2019
- UCL EDUCATE: Understanding and improving the London EdTech ecosystem - Kim Issroff and Katie Parker (UCL Knowledge Lab)
Wednesday 27 February 2019
- Designing for non-visual geography - Emiline Brulé (University of Sussex)
Wednesday 20 March 2019
- Intimate Data: postgenomics and neuro-technologies of precision education - Ben Williamson (University of Edinburgh)
Thursday 11 April 2019
- Technology enhanced learning at Great Ormond Street: the place of education in a digitising hospital - Simon Blackburn (Great Ormond Street Hospital)
Wednesday 22 May 2019
- AI programming by children and a case study using AI in a medical training game - Dr Ken Kahn and Dr Niall Winters (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 26 June 2019
- Communication in non-speaking children with physical disabilities: design-oriented research - Seray Ibrahim (UCL Knowledge Lab)
- 2018-17
Wednesday 25 October 2017
- Slowly scaling up from "proof-of-concept" in robotics for Autism: the DE-ENIGMA project - Alyssa Alcorn (CRAE, IOE)
Tuesday 21 November 2017
- Working towards a comprehensive instructional framework for CSCL support - Nikol Rummel (Institute of Education Research, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum)
Wednesday 13 December 2017
- Creativity and crafting with tactile technologies: a different take on accessibility - Janet Van Der Linden (Department of Computing and Communications, Open University)
Wednesday 31 January 2018
- A magical noun: thinking critically about 'creativity' - Dr Mark Readman (Bournemouth University)
Tuesday 20 February 2018
- Virtual play as event: engaging with potentiality in on and off screen meaning-making - Cathy Burnett and Guy Merchant (Language and Literacy Education Research Group, Sheffield Hallam University)
Wednesday 18 April 2018
- Digital media, culture and education: theorising third space literacies - John Potter (UCL Knowledge Lab) and Julian McDougall (Centre for Excellence in Media Practice, Bournemouth University)
Wednesday 23 May 2018
- Data mining for performance assessment and adaptive intelligent tutoring of scientific inquiry - Janice Gobert (Rutgers University)
Tuesday 12 June 2018
- Designing an engaging, multi-lingual, personalised and adaptive reading game for children - Laura Benton (UCL Knowledge Lab) and Drew Wilkins (Fish in a Bottle)