Our partners
We're proud to be collaborating with a number of strategic partners.
Non-academic partners
We work with a range of partners and organizations, building capacity to identify, experiment with and utilise the potential of sociodigital future-making practices to drive fair and sustainable societies. Our strategic partners are:
BT Group
BT Group is the UK’s leading provider of fixed and mobile telecommunications and related secure digital products, solutions and services. They also provide managed telecommunications, security and network and IT infrastructure services to customers across 180 countries. Their partnership with the Centre for Sociodigital Futures offers BT Group an exciting opportunity to collaborate on developing best practice in shaping the digital future in a way that considers social and economic equality, supporting their research agenda.
“This Centre is a unique proposition and marks a critical shift forward to recognise both social and technical processes of technology development”
Carol Fletcher, Head of Academic and Research Partnerships, BT.
HM Government’s Department for Environmental and Rural Affairs (Defra)
HM Government’s Department for Environmental and Rural Affairs is responsible for improving and protecting the environment and aims to grow a green economy and sustain thriving rural communities.
“Sociodigital questions are pervasive across our work and it is strategically critical for Defra to become futures literate in this area. The Centre for Sociodigital Futures brings together theory, methods, substantive expertise and practice, across disciplines and sectors, and will enable us to shift away from the stubborn focus on technology alone to recognise the embedding of social and technical processes. Working as your partner is a decisive and exciting move for Defra, giving us a forefooted position in influencing how the sociodigital interfolds with the ecological”
Phil Tovey, Head of Futures, Defra
Locality
Locality supports local community organisations to be strong and successful, offering specialist advice, peer learning opportunities and campaigning with members for a fairer society.
"Through our work with members and their beneficiaries, we see the incredible benefits of digital technology in bringing communities together. However, we also see the real-life impact on those left behind by digital advances. We are acutely aware that the fairer society we want can only be achieved if we find ways to bridge the digital divide and create sociodigital futures that are accessible and welcoming to all. Our partnership with ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures puts us at the forefront of the fight for a fairer sociodigital future”.
Tony Armstrong, Chief Executive, Locality
Maybe*
Maybe* is a social media analytics company, that works with organisations to support engagement with customers, clients, and the public.
“At Maybe*, we’re interested in understanding how the sociodigital is changing the way companies do business. AI and Social media has brought about changes that no-one was readily able to foresee and the changes are going to accelerate - understanding the futures we’re facing today is key in allowing us to help businesses prepare for their possible futures.”
Polly Barnfield OBE, Director
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is commited to helping to make the UK the safest place to live and work online.
United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
In addition to our six strategic partners, we work with a number of other organizations on specific projects.
International academic partners
The Centre is a hub for an international network of leading global Universities from four continents. Our five international academic partners are:
- University of Naples Federico II
- The New School for Social Research
- University of New South Wales
- Oslo Metropolitan University
- Stellenbosch University
Collaborating universities
The Centre is made up of researchers and investigators from the following institutions:
- University of the Arts London
- University of Birmingham
- University of Bristol (lead)
- University of Edinburgh
- University of Exeter
- Goldsmiths, University of London
- Lancaster University
- University of Oxford.
“We’re working with the Centre to find ways of ensuring sociodigital supports a fair society where everyone thrives. Through our partnership, we want to give more power to communities, reaching those who aren’t usually heard, and utilising community-led approaches to technology that creates successful and self-confident neighbourhoods and support local people.”
David Moynihan, Locality
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