Exploring reuse across Government service with the Ministry of Justice
By Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen On 8th July 2026, DIGIT Lab joined colleagues from across government, including the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), GOV.UK, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and the Home Office, for a workshop on the development of the GOV Reuse Library. Held at the FORA Gridiron building in King’s Cross, London, the […]
Organisations seeking to adopt and innovate with AI must ‘look beyond the technology’
Written by Russell Parton, originally posted on University of Exeter Organisations that aim to make emerging technologies such as AI essential to how they function must look ‘beyond the technology’ and focus as much on people, experts have said. Speaking at the DIGITlab Innovation Workshop last month, Exeter’s Professor Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen presented five years of […]
Driving innovation: Design, Technology, Digital and Human Experiences
I have started D.Coded, a new podcast with co-host Melisa Leñero, Director of the Paul Polak Innovation Fund, to bring together different voices from innovators, researchers, entrepreneurs, and designers. We first met a decade ago during a joint RCA/Imperial course I was leading. Why We Created D.Coded As Professor of Design Engineering & Innovation and […]
A two-stage retrieval-augmented generation framework for producing sustainable product design guidelines
Written by Pingfei Jiang, Ji Han and Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen Design is fundamental to product development and is widely recognised as a key driver for supporting the transition to a circular economy. As a problem-solving process, design relies heavily on knowledge retrieval and generation. Large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, have demonstrated substantial capabilities in […]
AI-led Design Innovation: Global Workshop Series
DIGIT Lab at The 25th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED25)
Using Data to Drive Innovation – Smart Lights
DT-Net General Assembly – UKRI Digital Twin Network (Swansea University, June 2025)
The Future of AI In Construction
Is a ‘co-opetition’ model the way to safeguard higher education for future generations?
Shared support functions don’t mean the end of competition among institutions, writes Mark Thompson. Instead, collective thinking could focus effort on universities’ strengths and potentially rescue the sector from ‘an unsustainable race to the bottom’ Here’s a question: just how bad do we think things can get in our individual universities before we’re prepared to […]