[Air-L] Digital Good Network - Digital Good Research Fund applications open
Helen Kennedy
h.kennedy at sheffield.ac.uk
Tue Mar 18 06:31:11 PDT 2025
Research funding available on the theme of 'Building the digital good'
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Building a research community focused on what a good digital society looks
like and how we get there.
11 March 2025
*Call for applications **Digital Good Research Fund, Round 3: ‘Building the
digital good’*
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The aim of the ESRC Digital Good Network is to enhance our collective
understanding of what a good digital society looks like and how we get
there.
Our research fund is now open for applications, on the theme of ‘Building
the digital good’
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Proposed projects may do one or more of the following:
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generate or rework digital technologies with the intention of achieving
the digital good
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explore how the digital good might be built in to specific technologies,
contexts and domains
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consider the role of diverse communities, sectors and organisations in
building the digital good
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test methodological innovations for building the digital good.
Proposals should also build on our research
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and work on evaluating the digital good
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Funding available: Teams can apply for up to £75,000 (£60,000 at 80% fEC)
Deadline to apply: 26 June 2025 16:00 UK time
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As part of our support for applicants, we will also be holding the
following optional events:
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*Online sandpit to connect with other researchers and relevant stakeholders*,
1 April
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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/>
*New publication: *
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
*Recent publications:*
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
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Taylor, M., Kennedy, H., and Oman, S. (2023) ‘Challenging assumptions about
the relationship between awareness and attitudes to data uses amongst the
UK public’, *The Information Society*, 40(1): 32-53,
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01972243.2023.2283729.
Bates, J., Kennedy, H., Medina-Perea, I., Oman, S. and Pinney, L. (2023)
‘Socially meaningful transparency in data-based systems: reflections and
proposals from practice’, *Journal of Documentation*, DOI:
10.1108/JD-01-2023-0006.
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