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Welcome to the Centre for Digital Cultures and Innovation

The Centre for Digital Cultures and Innovation (CDCI) brings together researchers and artists who share a common interest in how we co-create the digital world.  

Our members understand the value of ‘end-to-end’ engagement whether in the context of digital art, innovation or research. From coding, to digital performance, to data-driven policy and large scale system change, the research centre promotes trans-disciplinary collaboration, critical enquiry and inclusive practice.  

Our research and practice intervenes in digital inequalities, actively mobilising creativity and innovation to build inclusive digital futures.

For latest activities, events and opportunities - visit our Centre for Digital Cultures and Innovation research blog site.

We welcome new members and associates. Please see our 'Join us for study, work or visit' pages.  

PhD applicants - Find out more about studying within the centre.

Contact the centre regarding membership enquiries, doctoral study, research collaboration or to receive regular updates on our news and events.

CoRE-Digital@brighton.ac.uk

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Visit our blog site for work-in-progress, events and opportunities 

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Explore our centre on the university's database of research and knowledge exchange.

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An introduction to the research and knowledge exchange at the Centre for Digital Cultures and Innovation from the Director, Dr Mary Darking.

At the Centre for Digital Cultures and Innovation, our aim is to provide a research home to University of Brighton and visiting scholars who have digital research and practice interests.

Spanning a wide range of domains from art, policy, computer science, social science, health, education and commercial enterprise, CDCI members share a common interest in creating inclusive digital worlds through purposeful intervention in social and digital inequalities.

We support our members to connect and explore their digital work from the earliest stages of developing a practice or research career, to more advanced stages, where the skill of digital research and practice becomes one of learning to engage in and create cross-specialist spaces for collaboration. Our centre members’ work reflects this and the projects we develop are leading examples of collaborative, trans-disciplinary practice.

We inform practice, research and policy through developing key local, national and international partnerships, cutting across community, industry and the public sector.  

The centre co-delivered the Digital Catapult Centre Brighton, including the 5G Brighton project, the Dat Research *& Innovation Laboratory and the Digital Research & Innovation Value Accelerator (DRIVA Arts DRIVA projects) with Gatwick Airport. Arts DRIVA ensured artists and cultural producers participated alongside designers, businesses and technologists, to create new products and experiences utilising a live data feed out of a working airport. This positions us as a key stakeholder in the region for specialist knowledge transfer in Creative Digital and IT (CDIT). It also places us at the heart of the local SME innovation eco-system for next generation digital products and services. Building on the legacy of the DRIVA project, the centre is a lead partner in the implementation of a matching engine for creatives, technologists and businesses interested in data-driven innovation. 

Alongside our shared interest in inclusive digital practice and digital inequalities our centre has research themes around which we coordinate our conversations and events. These include: smart infrastructure; networked collaborative practice and 5G; public understanding of Artificial Intelligence; and digital health and wellbeing. Find out more about our research and knowledge exchange work at the Centre for Digital Cultures and Innovation on our 'What we do' pages .

We welcome new collaborators at all career stages. We provide supervisory support for PhD candidates with digital research and practice interests and host international visiting researchers. 

Contact us at CoRE-Digital@brighton.ac.uk for research consultancy and partnership across all our broad areas of digital research expertise.

Dr Mary Darking

 

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Brighton study reveals risks facing LGBTQI+ people in immigration detention

New research from the university shows that LGBTQI+ people continue to face harassment, bullying and deteriorating mental health while in immigration detention.

Funded PhD opportunities in the UK 2023 at the University of Brighton

Funded PhD opportunities in the UK 2023 at the University of Brighton

Funded PhDs across sciences, arts, humanities and social sciences. Study for your postgraduate research degree.

University helps drive innovative Brighton Festival arts production

University helps drive innovative Brighton Festival arts production

The University’s DRIVA Arts DRIVA programme has provided key impetus to one of the most anticipated shows at this year's Brighton Festival, entitled Lemonade.

University wins 5G research grant

University wins 5G research grant

The University of Brighton has been awarded more than £37,000 to explore the potential that 5G holds for the games and performing arts sectors.

University will help improve coronavirus patient experience of intensive care

University will help improve coronavirus patient experience of intensive care

University academics are working with doctors to understand the challenges that COVID-19 patients admitted to intensive care experience in communicating.

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Artist Ada Hao describes her telematic performance art PhD

Ada Hao is a performance artist and researcher who is completing work on her PhD in digital art at the University of Brighton.

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Researchers advance digital health through European Consortium

An international partnership of clinicians, social scientists, technology developers and HIV community activists met in Brighton in October for their penultimate consortium meeting.

Marina Wainer – My fellowship at the Centre for Digital Cultures and Innovation and the Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics

Marina Wainer – My fellowship at the Centre for Digital Cultures and Innovation and the Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics

When I applied to the Visiting Fellowship of the Centre for Digital Cultures and Innovation, I was already in Brighton, in residency with the interactive art group Blast Theory.

 

See more news and events updates on our Centre for Digital Cultures and Innovation blog site

 

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