[Air-L] Blueprints for a good digital society: call for applications

[Helen Kennedy]

Hello all

The ESRC Digital Good Network <https://digitalgood.net/> asks what a good
digital society looks like and how we get there.

We are inviting applications from individuals (or small teams) to produce
blueprints as part of a series on what a good digital society looks like.
Each one will focus on an aspect of social life or societal institution (eg
a family, a museum, a practice like health tracking). Funding recipients
will also produce a briefing document making targeted recommendations, with
our support. We will fund up to 15 in the series, and ask applicants to
identify the aspect of social life or societal institution on which they
will focus in their application.

Application deadline: Thursday 12 February 2026 16.00 UK time

Maximum project duration: 6 months (in the period of June 2026-January 2027)

The maximum level of funding that each project can apply for is £15,000
(£12,000 at 80% fEC). We will distribute £215,000 (£172,000 at 80% fEC).

Further information can be found on this webpage:
https://digitalgood.net/blueprints-for-a-good-digital-society-call-for-applications/

The opportunity can be shared via this LinkedIn post:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/digital-good-network_our-research-fund-applications-are-now-open-activity-7403757859114549248-pdJu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACFMFJcB00zswoYPtYmUsT10y-70UlsYFbQ

Best wishes

Helen

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Professor Helen Kennedy FBA FAcSS

Professor of Digital Society, University of Sheffield, @hmtk,
@hmtk at scholar.social, she/her

Director of: ESRC Digital Good Network <https://digitalgood.net/>
(@digitalgoodnet)
+ Living With Data <https://livingwithdata.org/> (@Living_WithData) + Public
Voices in AI <https://digitalgood.net/dg-research/public-voices-in-ai/>



*Recent publications:*

Kennedy, H., Aiello, G., Annabell, T. & Anderson, C.W. (2025) Generic
visuals in the news as public images: Activating emotions, experiences and
identities. *European Journal of Cultural Studies*.
https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494241310675


Kennedy, H., Ditchfield, H., Oman, S., Bates, J., Perea, I. M., Fratczak,
M., & Taylor, M. (2024). How people connect fairness and equity when they
talk about data uses. *Big Data & Society*, 11(4).
https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241303162


Ditchfield, H., Oman, S., Kennedy, H., Frątczak, M., Bates, J., Taylor, M.,
& Medina-Perea, I. (2024). 'What ifs: The role of imagining in people’s
reflections on data uses', *Convergence*.
https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565241300898


The Digital Good Network (2024) 'What do we mean when we talk about a good
digital society?' in British Academy (ed) *What are the Possibilities of a
Good Digital Society? *
http://doi.org/10.5871/digital-society/9780856726934.001
<http://doi.org/10.5871/digital-society/9780856726934.001>