To share our activity, progress and successes
Welcome to the Horizon CDT student blogsite. We hope you enjoy reading about our thoughts and experiences of being a Horizon CDT PhD student and would welcome your comments and feedback.
Please take a look at our Research Highlights page which provides an overview of all student cohorts backdating to 2011.
The Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Creating Our Lives in Data is based at the University of Nottingham and is supported by a multi million pound investment from UK Research and Innovation, University of Nottingham and over 40 industry partners. The CDT focuses on digital identity, personal data and data creativity within the global digital economy, and is affiliated with the Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute.
post by Jenn Layton Annable (2021 cohort) The National Development Team for Inclusion (or NDTi for short) is a UK-based not-for-profit organisation, whose work includes research and evaluation within government and the public sector. At its heart is a human-rights-based approach and universal commitment to centring the voices of those with lived experience in their …
Continue reading “Learning, Impact and Real Change: Jenn’s Placement with NDTi”
post by Favour Borokini (2022 cohort) From January 27-31, I was in the Netherlands attending the Dutch-Flemish Law & Society Association (VSR) PhD Days for Empirical Legal Studies. During the main conference, I had the opportunity to present findings from my first study as part of the Digital Governance and Vulnerability panel, organised by Gianclaudio …
Continue reading “Presenting My Work in Europe: A First Time for Everything”
post by Nicholas Tandavanitj (2023 cohort) Blast Theory is an artist group based in Portslade, near Brighton, that has been making interactive artwork since 1991. I have worked with the group for the last 30 years and am now one of two artists in the group. Blast Theory has collaborated with the Mixed Reality Lab …
Continue reading “From Studio to PhD: Reflections on a Creative Research Placement at Blast Theory”
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