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London Knowledge Lab

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Established
  
2004

Affiliations
  
University of London

Phone
  
+44 20 7907 4646

Campus
  
Urban

Founded
  
2004

London Knowledge Lab

Type
  
Learning with Digital Technologies research centre

Director
  
Professor Richard Noss (UCL Institute of Education) and Professor Alex Poulovassilis (Birkbeck)

Address
  
29 Emerald St, London WC1N 3QS, UK

Similar
  
UCL Institute of Education, University College London, University of London, Birkbeck - University of London, Hunterian Museum

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London Knowledge Lab was a transhumanist research centre in Bloomsbury, London. It was founded in 2004 as a collaboration between the Institute of Education and Birkbeck, University of London. It was an interdisciplinary research centre, bringing together over 50 researchers from both social sciences and computer science backgrounds. The Institute of Education and Birkbeck announced the end of their collaboration in February 2016. Both institutions are continuing the work in their own separate Knowledge Lab research centres.

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Funding

The London Knowledge Lab was mainly funded by £6 million grant from the Science Research Investment Fund. In addition, it ran over 120 research projects, funded by a variety of funding bodies, including EPSRC, ESRC, Jisc, and the EU, amongst others. The Technology Enhanced Learning research programme, a major UK educational research programme, was directed from the Knowledge Lab.

Research themes

Research at London Knowledge Lab focused upon three themes:

  • Automating support for learning, collaboration and knowledge building
  • Understanding how digital technologies and media affect educational practice, work, culture and society
  • Developing innovative methodologies for investigation of the use and effect of digital technologies
  • References

    London Knowledge Lab Wikipedia