Our research
Our work focuses on the challenges around digital inclusion, digital poverty and marginalised groups.
This research cluster draws extensively on the expertise of two of Loughborough’s primary and longest established Research Centres - the Centre for Research in Social Policy and the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture.
Our Stakeholder Advisory Group includes Harriet Andrews (The Politics Project); Lizzie Carr (Planet Patrol); Liam Dargan (NEC Digital Studio); Marilia Duque (Ashoka); Alice Sinclair (Affinity Health at Work) and Saman Taherimoud (The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network).
Postgraduate researchers and our partners will be joining a wide range of exciting intellectual networks and events - benefitting from some of the latest cutting-edge research on vibrant and inclusive communities at the University.
Examples of our recent research
Our transdisciplinary research addresses a range of challenges - developing knowledge and understanding of digital communities and in/exclusion.
- Loot boxes - exploring how they cause financial and emotional harm to children
- Litter Data - using apps in citizen science
- Minimum Digital Living Standard - reducing digital exclusion in UK households with children
- Ten Things We Know about Humanitarian Numbers - published in the Journal of Humanitarian Affairs