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The DIGIT Lab Newsletter

DIGIT Lab's monthly newsletter provides regular updates of DIGIT Lab's wide-ranging activities, upcoming events, and the successes of our researchers. The DIGIT Lab is an EPSRC Next Stage Digital Economy Research Centre delivering a 5-year research programme backed by £12.4M in funding.

In this month's edition of the DIGIT Lab Newsletter you have the chance to catch Mark Thompson delivering the Jadu Academy opening keynote; we also ask why some organisations are still living in the past, in Irish Management Institute’s Talking Leadership podcast with Alan Brown, and as always we provide an activity newsfeed of DIGIT Lab's recent engagements.

Jadu Academy keynote

Professor Mark Thompson delivers opening keynote

“You can deliver locally configured Public Services that will conform with your localism agenda, while standardising your back-end”

– Mark Thompson delivers an insightful and engaging opening keynote session at Jadu Academy in Birmingham. Mark describes how radical thinking can preserve our public services – not to be missed!

This Month's Highlight

Irish Management Institute’s Talking Leadership podcast

Why are some organisations still living in the past?

If the digital revolution has well and truly arrived, why are some organisations still living in the past? Professor Alan Brown joins Irish Management Institute’s Talking Leadership podcast, to dive deeper into the dilemmas of digital.

Activity Newsfeed

Here are just some of DIGIT Lab's engagement activities this month:💡 Design Descriptions: Disruptive Technologies in Future Design & Development Systems. “Great discussion on future on design and manufacturing in the age of digital technology” – Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen shared photographs from the workshop at Design Computing and Cognition ’22 Conference🗣 Citizen-centred digital services: Mark Thompson was a key speaker at Public Policy Exchange: Digital Transformation in Local Government. Watch the recording and see Mark’s slides🍐 It's all gone a bit pear-shaped, hasn’t it? Witnessing the disruption to people’s lives and livelihoods, it's fair to say, this isn't exactly the “golden digital age” that we hoped for. Alan Brown asks Why is Digital Transformation Taking So Long?🖐 ‘Digital susceptibility’: How is technological advancement affecting who we are as human beings? Mark Thompson shares some practical philosophy

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