Methods Hub - where methods meet the world
As a catalyst for methods-driven, impact-focused, cross-sector interdisciplinary collaborations, we provide:
Experimentation
to support the testing of new methods, rapid prototyping, critical making and co-design
Training
A range of activities, from webinar series and bespoke sessions to ‘training in the wild’.
Infrastructure and Resources
A one-stop shop for methods-centric collaboration, research and training artefacts
Knowledge Brokering
Spanning boundaries, facilitating knowledge exchange across networks, sectors and disciplines
Collaboration
To collaborate with multiple stakeholders across diverse domains
Showcase
These are some of our methods-based or methodology-driven collaborations with partners.
AI in the street: creating everyday observatories of AI in city streets
Public AI observatories launched in UK and Australian cities engaged communities in exploring AI’s real-world impact. Findings are now guiding local governments on inclusive and responsible AI governance.
Trust Mapping workshops: Exploring the social distribution of knowledge
Trust Mapping workshops are a method used to encourage reflective learning within a system or organisation. Workshop participants work together to create a visualisation of social relationships, which can help to examine issues and potential improvements. The Scaling Trust project conducted trust mapping workshops with security practitioners working in cyber security.
Imagining and Mapping UK Green Economy Futures
The Complexity Appropriate Participatory Techniques Utilised for Reimagining Energy policy Design (CAPTURED) project is a futures study that uses participatory methods to envision alternative UK green economy futures leading up to 2050.
Transnational Participation Action Research with Young Adult Key Populations
This project promotes digital equity by engaging young key populations in Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, and Vietnam to co-produce research on barriers to online health access, highlighting how stigma, digital exclusion, and inadequate infrastructure hinder the right to health in the digital age.
Co-designing data visualisations with grassroots mapmakers
For the ESRC-Digital Good Network project, we teamed up with Geochicas, a feminist map-makers grassroots, to co-design data visualisations as a method to surface how neutrality operates in a particular digital good.
Visualisation and Interactive Simulation for Education and Engagement
This showcase explores the use of data visualisation and interactive computational simulations as methods for engagement with complex subjects and as methods to support learning and developing awareness.