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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'.
2024–25 schedule
09 January 2025
Mobilising difficult knowledge in higher education and the implications for student futures – Helen Knowler
17 October 2024
Will AI kill creativity? – Nicola Osborne
Past seminars
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
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
23 November 2023
- NewsWise: Developing UK primary school pupils’ news literacy skills – Gianfranco Polizzi
2022–23 schedule
06 July 2023
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)