Case studies

Professor Luna Dolezal chats with us about The Shame Lab, an international hub that researches shame and its effects in professional practice and organisations, and provides consultancy and training in Shame Competence. 

Dr Eric Lybeck chats with us about The Engine Room, a co-working and co-learning space in Southport that applies the Civic Ecological Design method for activating disused spaces. 

Dr Du Liu chats with us about OxValue.AI, a venture offering a new approach to technology valuation. Its underlying framework looks at novelty, market size, complementary technologies, development risks and the team involved.

Dr David Rosenthal chats with us about Hidden Cities, a collection of apps offering mobile storytelling on historic maps. The apps utilise a living history approach and are available for different cities around the world.

Dr Lucy Kelly chats with us about Reimagining the Diary, which deploys diary-keeping as a positive tool for teacher wellbeing. The project offers a bespoke Diary Toolkit and monthly wellbeing CPD sessions to help teachers improve their mental health.

Dr Anna Bull chats with us about The 1752 Group and their research-informed work on higher education institutions' responses to sexual and gender-based violence and harassment. Their goal is to achieve survivor-informed responses across all workplaces.

Dr William Short chats with us about Senseful AI, a new search engine that allows you to search text by concepts and conceptual relations. It offers an alternative to existing search engines and aims to solve the ‘keyword search problem’.

Dr Alexander Shenkin chats with us about SilvaFlux, a venture based on a newly discovered climate cooling service provided by forests that aims to increase the amount and profitability of reforestation by increasing the number of carbon credits reforestation projects can issue.

Professor Doris Ruth Eikhof chats with us about Everyday Diversity, an app that aims to transform diversity and inclusion in the screen industries. It is evidence-based and has been developed by researchers and industry.