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DIGIT - Digital Innovation for Growth, Impact and Transformation
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Digital Innovation for Growth, Impact, and Transformation (DIGIT) is led by the University of Exeter Business School, with the DIGIT Lab named as the latest of six national Next Stage Digital Economy Centres by the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC). The lab has a budget of almost £12m over five years, including more than £5m from industry partners and a £3.6m investment from EPSRC.
The DIGIT Virtual Lab will work across the academic partners of Exeter, Oxford Brookes and UEA, together with large established organisations to reimagine them for the digital age – in ways that go beyond merely digitising current products and practices to address core transformation challenges.
Prof. Gerard Parr, lead Co-PI on the DIGIT project said: “I am delighted to partner with colleagues in Exeter and Oxford Brookes on this strategically important project. I will be supported at UEA by collaborators in the Smart Emerging Technologies Research group Dr. Ben Milner, Dr. Edwin Ren, Dr. Hane Aung and will leverage key research strengths we have in 5G, Internet of Things, Embedded Systems and smart devices.
“Over the past year, the role and importance of digital technologies has become clear to companies and government agencies as they strive to support staff working from home, core business processes, supply chains and services. Technologies such as Cloud Computing, broadband, 5G, and secure web-applications for collaborative working have all come to the forefront.”
Engaging industry partners in a research programme focused on creating disruptive scenarios, the DIGIT Lab will develop novel research insights and create knowledge frameworks and tools, while translating their findings into concrete steps designed to have a real-world impact for industry and the economy.
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[1] Y.-C. Liang, K.-R. Wu, K.-L. Tong, Y. Ren, and Y.-C. Tseng. "An exchange-based AIoT platform for fast AI application development," in Proc. 18th ACM Int'l Symp. QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks (Q2SWinet '23), Montreal, Canada, Nov. 2023
Enhancing Teacher Agency with Technology (ETAT)
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This project investigates the enactment of teacher agency with technology for teaching and learning. Teacher agency is an individual teacher’s power to act, and the actions and decisions they take within their own context. Research identifies both teacher agency and technology as factors in educational transformation and improvement but previously has not linked them systematically or elaborated their potential when combined. Our transformational view of teacher agency with technology sees teachers as experts with agency and judgement. Through this work we aim to develop a model of teacher agency that we can share and test with colleagues throughout the UK.
Our research addresses how teachers conceptualise their current agency with technology (enactment); teachers’ aspirations for agency with technology (what it might be); the extent to which different technologies invite teachers’ agency (what is possible); and the role technology can play in developing teachers’ agency (enhancement). Our approach challenges and extends the theorisation of ‘technology integration’ in schools, preferring instead a perspective of ‘technology adaptation’ (Bozkurt, 2020).
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UK Develops Strategic Partnership with India on Future Telecom Networks
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The Prime Ministers of India and the United Kingdom have endorsed closer collaboration between both nations in areas of strategic importance. In a joint statement linked to the UK-India Roadmap for 2030, leaders of the UK and India emphasised their shared commitment to an enhanced partnership in science, education, research and innovation and welcomed the signing of the new UK-India MoU on Telecommunications/ICT and the Joint Declaration of Intent on Digital and Technology. This MoU underlined the importance of India to the UK in the ICT sector and to Future Networks research.
The UKI-FNI project is being led by Professor Gerard Parr, Chair in Telecommunications Engineering and Head of School of Computing Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA ) in Norwich and his partners are Regius Professor Rahim Tafazolli from University of Surrey, Prof Lajos Hanzo- University of Southampton, Prof Toktam Mahmoodi, Kings College London and Prof Steve Hailes, University College London. Key partners in India are Prof Rajesh Sundaresan from Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and Prof Subrat Kar from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.
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