Digital Futures Lab - Launch Event

Digital Futures Lab - Launch Event

National Brownfield InstituteWolverhampton, England
Saturday, Feb 7, 2026 from 2 pm to 5 pm GMT
Overview

Join us in person to explore cutting-edge tech and shape the future at the Digital Futures Lab launch!

Digital Futures Lab - Launch Event

Join us in celebrating the launch of the Digital Futures Lab, an experimental, cross-disciplinary space for creative-critical work on the digital transformation of society. At the launch you can:

  • Meet leading thinkers who use digital and computational methods to rethink approaches to language, literature and culture
  • Experience a groundbreaking virtual reality project and explore how digital creativity can help improve lives and build communities
  • Help co-create impactful research for a digital wellbeing project
  • Explore how your own writing style resembles other authors
  • Hear from leading thinkers about what a digital future will hold
  • Pitch your own projects ideas for a MPhil or PhD in your own Digital or Computational Humanties topic during incubator discussions
  • Drinks reception for mingling with digital research and pedagogy leaders


We are currently accepting applications for students interested in doing an MPhil or PhD with us. We also invite expressions from external partners, including cultural institutions and business, to undertake collaborate research. For more information about the Digital Humanties research at Wolverhampton, please go to: https://bit.ly/3zoXIEW

For more information, write to Bas Groes at s.groes@wlv.ac.uk.

Join us in person to explore cutting-edge tech and shape the future at the Digital Futures Lab launch!

Digital Futures Lab - Launch Event

Join us in celebrating the launch of the Digital Futures Lab, an experimental, cross-disciplinary space for creative-critical work on the digital transformation of society. At the launch you can:

  • Meet leading thinkers who use digital and computational methods to rethink approaches to language, literature and culture
  • Experience a groundbreaking virtual reality project and explore how digital creativity can help improve lives and build communities
  • Help co-create impactful research for a digital wellbeing project
  • Explore how your own writing style resembles other authors
  • Hear from leading thinkers about what a digital future will hold
  • Pitch your own projects ideas for a MPhil or PhD in your own Digital or Computational Humanties topic during incubator discussions
  • Drinks reception for mingling with digital research and pedagogy leaders


We are currently accepting applications for students interested in doing an MPhil or PhD with us. We also invite expressions from external partners, including cultural institutions and business, to undertake collaborate research. For more information about the Digital Humanties research at Wolverhampton, please go to: https://bit.ly/3zoXIEW

For more information, write to Bas Groes at s.groes@wlv.ac.uk.

Lineup

Dr Asami Nakamura (Kobe University, Japan)

Professor Alex Goody (Oxford Brookes, UK)

Professor Denise Doyle (University of Derby)

Professor Karina van Dalen-Oskam

Professor Sebastian Groes

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Highlights

  • 3 hours
  • In person

Location

National Brownfield Institute

Cambridge Street

Wolverhampton WV10 0JR

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Agenda

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Explore our research projects

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Talks by Digital Humanties experts

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Drink reception and incubator sessions

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