Knowledge Lab seminar series

• Aims
• Modes of attendance
• Upcoming seminars
• Past seminars
  • 2024–25 schedule
  • 2023–24 schedule
  • 2022–23 schedule
  • 2021–22 schedule
  • 2019–20 schedule
  • 2018–19 schedule
  • 2017–18 schedule 
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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.

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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'.

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Upcoming seminars

• Book launch: University and the Algorithmic Gaze - Lesley Gourlay

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Past seminars

2024–25 schedule

17 October 2024

• Will AI kill creativity? – Nicola Osborne

07 November 2024

• Demanding “better” EdTech – Rebecca Eynon

05 December 2024

• Videogames, chaotic playfulness, and the English national curriculum – Alison Croasdale

09 January 2025

• Mobilising difficult knowledge in higher education and the implications for student futures – Helen Knowler

03 Feb 2025

• UCL Knowledge Lab Visiting Lecture: An Ed-Tech tragedy? Technology, crisis and future of education – Mark West

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2023–24 schedule

10 July 2024

• Digital Touch book launch – Professor Carey Jewitt, Professor Sara Price

13 June 2024

• Knowledge Lab seminar series: Dr Bronwyn Cumbo – Dr Bronwyn Cumbo

06 June 2024

• Loneliness, touch, and its digital mediation – Dr Lili Golmohammadi

20 May 2024

• Latin American decolonial studies – Dr Pablo Soffia, Dr Haira Gandolfi, Dr Letícia Perani

16 May 2024

• AI-driven personalised support to learning beyond problem solving – Cristina Conati

1 May 2024

• Exploring digital life-worlds: the postphenomenology of writing – Professors Cathy Adams and Lesley Gourlay.

17 April 2024

• Things worth knowing: Participatory research with children on media cultures and play – John Potter

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

08 February 2024

• Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Resist It – Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejias

18 January 2024

• 'Online Learning Futures': Book launch and discussion – Eileen Kennedy and Diana Laurillard

07 December 2023

• Speculative remembering: Diasporic intimacies and digital archives – keisha bruce

23 November 2023

• NewsWise: Developing UK primary school pupils’ news literacy skills – Gianfranco Polizzi

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2022–23 schedule

06 July 2023

• Vulnerability and control: Smartphones and queer men's cultures of intimacy – Jamie Hakim

15 June 2023

• Professional learning for ethical AI – Simon Knight

01 June 2023

• What matters about space for learning? – Jos Boys

18 May 2023

• Innovative pedagogy and generative AI – Mike Sharples

4 May 2023

• Colonised by data: The costs of connection – Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejias

23 March 2023

• Designing interactive systems from a socio-technical and learning perspective – Viktoria Pammer-Schindler

9 February 2023

• Co-producing and researching post-digital sexual violence and activism workshops for under-18s – Jessica Ringrose

12 January 2023

• Developing and digitising skilled touch: Ethnographic observations on garment designers – Douglas Atkinson

14 December 2022

• Exploring critical design and making with children – Professor Netta Livari

01 December 2022

• Rethinking EdTech for an age of climate crisis – Neil Selwyn

22 November 2022

• How do professionals learn as they work? – Professor Shirley Agostinho

17 November 2022

• Towards interdisciplinary cognitive neuroscience – Professor Motoaki Sugiura

29 September 2022

• The empathy diaries: Thinking about thinking about technology and self – Sherry Turkle (MIT)

22 September 2022

• Multimodal learning analytics to support learning design – Michail Giannakos (NTNU)

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2021–22 schedule

15 June 2022

• A multidimensional evaluation of the effectiveness of adaptive digital educational games – Dr Stefanie Vanbecelaere (KU Leuven)

12 May 2022

• Making the future: Constructionist tools for critical reflection and social action – Nathan Holbert (Columbia University)

5 May 2022

• Designing the Social – Dr Harry T. Dyer (UEA)

7 April 2022

• Designing new interfaces to encourage us to think – Yvonne Rogers (UCLIC)

3 March 2022

• There Is No 'Virtual Learning': The Materiality of Digital Education – Lesley Gourlay (IOE)

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2019–20 schedule

13 February 2020

• Designing the future of higher education through partnerships with industry and students – Professor Panos Vlachopoulos (Macquarie University)

30 January 2020

• Designing writing analytics to align with classroom practices and needs – Dr Simon Knight (University of Technology Sydney) 

16 January 2020

• Development and evaluation of eCREST: an online resource for future doctors – Dr Ruth Plackett (UCL) and Dr Jessica Sheringham (UCL)

4 December 2019

• First-person solvers: Smart video game design for good maths learning – Professor Keith Devlin (University of Stanford)

13 November 2019

• Mapping unbundling in the higher education terrain: South Africa and the UK – Dr Bronwen Swinnerton (University of Leeds)

9 October 2019

• Bodies, incorporeals, and the birth of a mathematical diagram – Ricardo Nemirovsky (Manchester Metropolitan University)

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2018–19 schedule

26 June 2019

• Communication in non-speaking children with physical disabilities: design-oriented research – Seray Ibrahim (UCL Knowledge Lab) 

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)

11 April 2019

• Technology enhanced learning at Great Ormond Street: the place of education in a digitising hospital – Simon Blackburn (Great Ormond Street Hospital)

20 March 2019

• Intimate Data: postgenomics and neuro-technologies of precision education – Ben Williamson (University of Edinburgh)

27 February 2019

• Designing for non-visual geography – Emiline Brulé (University of Sussex)

30 January 2019

• UCL EDUCATE: Understanding and improving the London EdTech ecosystem – Kim Issroff and Katie Parker (UCL Knowledge Lab)

5 December 2018

• Game design and learning experiences – Dr Nikoleta Giannoutsou (UCL Knowledge Lab)

14 November 2018

• Computing in primary school: Setting out for a systematic approach – Professor Ivan Kalaš (Comenius University, Slovakia)

17 October 2018

• Young people’s digital practices: the question of generativity – Dr Rebecca Eynon (Oxford Internet Institute / Department of Education, University of Oxford)

26 September 2018

• Supporting learning of social-emotional competencies with technology – Dr Petr Slovak (UCL Interaction Centre)

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2017–18 schedule

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)

23 May 2018

• Data mining for performance assessment and adaptive intelligent tutoring of scientific inquiry – Janice Gobert (Rutgers University)

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)

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)

31 January 2018

• A magical noun: thinking critically about 'creativity' – Dr Mark Readman (Bournemouth University)

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)

21 November 2017

• Working towards a comprehensive instructional framework for CSCL support – Nikol Rummel (Institute of Education Research, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum)

25 October 2017

• Slowly scaling up from "proof-of-concept" in robotics for Autism: the DE-ENIGMA project – Alyssa Alcorn (CRAE, IOE)

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Contact

For further information or queries, please contact the seminar convenors:

• Ned Barker at edmund.barker@ucl.ac.uk
• Kata Kyrölä at k.kyrola@ucl.ac.uk