Ongoing Projects
Research in Progress
Our ongoing research explores emerging questions around ageing, digital inclusion, technology and participation. These projects are developing new evidence and insights to better understand the experiences of older adults and inform more inclusive services, systems and communities.
Tinkering, Teaching, and Taking Responsibility
How older adults are collectively learning, questioning and shaping AI
Technology & Innovation | Digital Inclusion | Co-design & Engagement
Explores how older adults learn about generative AI together through experimentation, peer learning and collective problem-solving, challenging assumptions that later-life AI education is simply about catching up on digital skills.
Participating in Digital Society
Digital citizenship and civic participation in later life
Community Participation | Digital Inclusion | Policy & Practice
Explores how older adults use digital technologies to participate in civic and community life, contribute their knowledge and experience, and make their voices heard.
Human–AI Companionship in Later Life
Connection, care and muluality in relationships with AI
Technology & Innovation | Healthy Ageing | Policy & Practice
Explores how older adults experience companionship and mutuality with AI, and how AI design and commercial practices shape caring, reciprocal relationships and well-being.
Supporting Digital Life
Emotional work, care and autonomy in family technology support
Digital Inclusion | Healthy Ageing | Co-design & Engagement
Explores the often-invisible emotional work involved when family members and trusted supporters help older adults navigate digital life, and how that support can build confidence or create dependence and frustration.
When AI Gets You Wrong
Personalisation, lifelong learning and older adults’ engagement with generative AI
Technology & Innovation | Digital Inclusion | Healthy Ageing
Examines what happens when generative AI personalisation gets older learners wrong, and how these mismatches affect their ability and willingness to keep learning with AI.
