Our centre
The UCL Centre for Responsible Innovation empowers researchers at UCL and across the globe to embrace their responsibilities to society. Together we want to build a new future for innovation - around ethics, justice and democracy.
The UCL Centre for Responsible Innovation has been established in 2025 to understand and intervene in major challenges of innovation. We do this through research, capacity building and consultancy. We facilitate active engagement with scientists and technologists to build responsibility, reversibility and democracy into innovation systems. We work with decision makers across policy and civil society. Throughout our launch year we have three core goals.
We aim to:
- Build a global centre of excellence in responsible innovation research
- Work with decision makers in policy and civil society to align innovation with what societies really need
- Facilitate capacity-building that helps scientists and technologists engage with the public
Campus Townhall
UCL Centre for Responsible Innovation Campus Townhall
We’ve launched a Centre. Now we want to set the agenda together and make connections across UCL - join us!
📅 Tuesday 10th February
🕑 2pm to 4pm
📍 IOE Bedford Way C3.09
Email Kate Hetherington (kate.hetherington.24@ucl.ac.uk) for more information
About the Centre
Find out more about the Centre and our approach to responsible innovation
Research & publications
The Centre's research: our work on how innovation is imagined, practised and evaluated
Training & capacity building
Short courses and training for doctoral students, researchers and industry professionals
Study with us
Study with world class scholars and practioners in responsible innovation
Partner with us
Partner with members of the Centre team on research, capacity building or consultancy projects
