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Research symposium - 22 March 2012

On 22 March 2012, we'll be holding a research symposium at the London School of Economics to bring together people and organisations currently doing research (in any form) on social digital behaviour. The symposium aims to encourage sharing between partners in the public, private and voluntary sectors.

Some of the themes we'll talk about are:

  • The barriers and issues people face getting online
  • What happens to families and communities when they do get online
  • How social networks can impact upon this, both positively and negatively
  • How technology can affect social outcomes such as well-being, employability and education
  • How we can develop a demand for digital services such as broadband amongst those who are offline
  • 'Digital by default' or the shift of service delivery to online channels and how this will affect the people who use those services.

At the moment we're putting together a list of recent and ongoing research programmes that cover any of the above themes that we'll share before the symposium, please do share your latest research plans as well as any downloadable versions or links to your latest research papers and reports, by e-mailing peter.farrell@ukonlinecentres.com

If you're involved in research highlighting any of these themes and would like to come along to the symposium, please e-mail help@ukonlinecentres.com.

We'll tell you more about how the symposium went in the coming weeks, so do keep an eye out!

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