Date: October 24, 2025
Slides from my talk at IROS 2025 below And here’s the preprint: https://www.techrxiv.org/users/308722/articles/1310760-a-three-way-innovation-ecosystem-for-rehabilitation-and-assistive-robot-co-design Links to https://www.emergencerobotics.net who funded much of this work. pptx https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/w5oht6xrgwjpx3g29xcbe/ODonovan-P132-Confronting-Colonial-Genocide.pptx?rlkey=ctls84js33xuam6og9et6cnhf&dl=0 pdf https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3i87x0godq8ubl9f4erfx/ODonovan-P132-Confronting-Colonial-Genocide.pdf?rlkey=cxkhfb6eizx7rynerya69k4tm&dl=0
Date: September 5, 2024
First Summer School in Cyber Physical Health and Assistive Robotics Theme: Connecting Assistive Solutions to AspirationsDate: Wednesday 4th September 2024 – Friday 6th September 2024Location: School of Computer Science, Jubilee Campus, University of NottinghamEvent website: https://www.emergencerobotics.net/events-and-network-activities/summer-school-2024 Click to download PDF.
Date: July 12, 2024
My keynote presentation from the IAFOR 2024 conference held at SOAS and UCL, July 12th 2024
Date: September 1, 2023
Presentation from RGS 2023 WordPress PPTX * Dropbox PPTX (most recent version) Dropbox PDF
Date: October 13, 2022
Slides for a talk given at the Hattusia network
Date: September 19, 2022
Paper title: Understanding evolving digital transformation in UK sheltered housing in terms of capabilities, resources, and empowerment Authors: Cian O’Donovan, Ralitsa Hiteva, Kate Simpson, Melanie Smallman Presented at the Human Development and Capabilities Approach Conference, Antwerp, 2022. Submitted abstract: This article was originally going to be about processes of digital transformation in institutional situations. How … Read More
Date: July 12, 2022
A giant A0 research poster the Empowering team presented at the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub 2022 annual meeting. It’s a pretty accurate representation of the theory and the stakes and the research focus right before we start our empirical work.
Date: July 5, 2022
Slides presented at EASST 2022, July 6th 2022.
Date: October 28, 2021
A workshop presented at the 2021 ESRC/NCRM Festival of Methods. October 28th 2021 Organisers: Ola Michalec (University of Bristol), Joshua Moon (University of Sussex), Cian O’Donovan (UCL), Mehdi Sobhani (Bristol Robotics Laboratory). 2021-ESRC-Methods-Fest-capabilities-211028-3Download
Date: October 9, 2021
Some early thoughts on a book chapter project about social innovation and co-creation. Title: Co-creation. What now? Authors: Cian O’Donovan, Melanie Smallman Presented at: 4S Annual Meeting 2021. 9th October 2021 Session: Interrogating “Co-creation”: The good, the bad and the ugly Abstract: Like all the best epistemic imaginaries, co-creation eludes easy interpretation. Researchers have shown … Read More