Pipeline of what is needed / who you speak to when.

Pipeline of support with UoB Enterprise.

NIHR infrastructure - industry engagement. Needs to be more joined up.

Funding for RA to develop website tool - steps for developing technologies- decision tree. Connecting groups and expertise together. Connecting PPI groups. Directory of contacts, what support they can offer.

Accessing relevant information.

Finding the right contacts - mapping contacts into the NHS, global contacts.

Digital Tools.

Mapping stage of development to funding opportunities.

School level talks from BERI, DARO and UoB Enterprise.

Research Clinics - similar model to MoveWell. Student-led hubs.

Healthcare Economics should be fully integrated as should PPI.

How do you bring components of technology together to have a holistic solution. Combining data from different interventions to a single solution.

Pairing expertise.

Test cases to see where the 'blind spots' are. Knowledge sharing of process involved in innovation.

Examples of what people have done before.

Nuffield Foundation- different streams Educations, Social Welfare could be a possible source of funding

UKRI cross council - can be interdisciplinary research team.

ESRC - would be suitable too needs 50% social sciences, but would it fit with the overall aspiration of the discussions today, we may go beyond this remit.

Do we look at funding body that is particularly interested and then build the application around this.

ESRC you would need to narrow the disciplinary angle to ensure your application is reviewed appropriately.

Could lead with concepts of wellbeing - and how does technology fit within that?

Possibly applying for some networking funding to help develop and input from external or wider partners.

Challenge is the speed of change of technology, by the time the research is completed it could be outdated by new Technology applications.

Broader than a conceptual concept - Flourishing measurements.

It is such a huge area to tackle, do you focus on a specific Technology or specific population?

Eg Mapping a digital ecosystem for adolescences??

Next Steps:

1) UoB funding for a Network+ £50k over 12months could help really define the idea around wellbeing.

(Need further more focussed workshops)

2) Possibly need to bring in tech companies or voice of industry/corporates. Carefully need to consider the role of these companies within the research - could they try and influence the research to support their own agenda.

(Need training of how to maximise the opportunity with Google/Meta but without compromising the research or brining about conflicts of interest or losing academic integrity.

3) Reflections from today what is the key ideas or research questions, share these with the group.

• Already have quite a well-developed idea (educating holistically to equip people to maximise the good from emerging technologies and minimising harm), with scenario-testing and PPI

• This is something which could lend itself to a larger grant - a programme of work with specific work packages

• Possible crossover with Digital Good

• Feels like an ESRC project?

• EU funding could have some appeal - Synergy grants bringing together PIs whose skills complement each other.

• Cultural vs individual anxieties caused by emerging technologies.

• What particular emerging technologies should be looked at -can we keep these as broad as possible?

• Pitch towards wellbeing and health

• Everyday technologies at the point they become institutionalised and sedimented - why and where do certain technologies become embedded?

• Different stages of technological adoption - technologies that are embedded and sedimented vs tech which is still being developed. How does education for these differ? The technology lifecycle.

• For who, how and why are we trying to anticipate the effects of emerging technology?

• Worldbuilding and wellbeing - creative-led approaches to emerging technologies. Could this be developed into a practical framework for supporting wellbeing? Gaming (e.g. tabletop game design) used for exploring scenario-testing?

  
  

3 Action Points

• This can be an ESRC Standard Research Grant (Educating for Emerging Technologies: Lessons from the Past, Present and Future) - preliminary work before going for a larger grant.

• Form a working group to work on the bid - date in the diary.

• Speak to collaborators and stakeholders. Mapping exercises - where are the existing stakeholders and can we identify any gaps? Bring non-academic partners onto the project and do PPI work.