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.
My keynote presentation from the IAFOR 2024 conference held at SOAS and UCL, July 12th 2024
Presentation from RGS 2023 WordPress PPTX * Dropbox PPTX (most recent version) Dropbox PDF
Slides for a talk given at the Hattusia network
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
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.
Slides presented at EASST 2022, July 6th 2022.
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
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
Preliminary sketch of ideas and research on the role of hope in establishing visions and pathways towards future worlds. Title: Worlds of hope colonised? Tracking imaginations of modern sustainability in the 21st century Authors: Cian O’Donovan, Saurabh Arora Presented at: 4S Annual Meeting 2021. 8th October 2021 Session: Confronting Worlds. The Concept of “Worlds” and … Read More