Tomorrow we’re launching a new Digital Investigations Lab at King’s College London, led by David Young, Liliana Bounegru and myself.

The lab draws on many previous research collaborations and engaged research-led teaching activities with media and civil society groups - including those undertaken with the Public Data Lab that Liliana and I co-founded.

I’m looking forward to how it can become a space for co-learning and connection - including around critical technical practices and critical data practices, as explored in the Data Journalism Handbook and Public Data Cultures.

You can find out more about the lab here and below.

The Digital Investigations Lab (DIL) is an interdisciplinary project that brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, civil society, and the arts and media to share and discuss the investigative tools and methods they use in their work.

From mapping environmental crimes and military violence to tracking disinformation networks and political lobbying, the lab examines the particular challenges and possibilities presented by the digital across varying investigative and disciplinary contexts.

Through a programme of events, training workshops, and collaborative research, the DIL aims to nurture inventive, reflective and imaginative modes of inquiry and support cross-disciplinary learning communities in London and beyond. In doing so, it facilitates exploration of situated understandings of expertise, methods, and sources at a moment where their definitions are shifting and unstable.

The DIL is based in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London and is led by Dr David Young, Dr Jonathan Gray and Dr Liliana Bounegru. It was initiated as part of Assembling Certainty, an AHRC Catalyst-funded project led by Dr Young in collaboration with Dr Josh Bowsher (University of Sussex) and Airwars.