Project relations

• IAA AHRC: Generation Fix: Designing Educational Toolkits to Accelerate Digital Circular Economy Education Within Local Communities

  Project: Research

• Repair Space Blackburn

  Project: Consultancy

Activities

• ESRC Festival of Social Science 2022

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Festival/Exhibition/Concert

• The Repair Shop 2049: Building Local Repair Communities to Make Smart Tech Smarter

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• EPSRC Manufacturing and the Circular Economy Community Workshop

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

• Designing A More Sustainable Internet of Things

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• EPSRC Circular Economy and ICT Engagement and Networking Workshop

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

• HCI for Climate Change: Imagining Sustainable Futures Workshop at ACM CHI 2023

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference - Academic

• Alien Futuring: Speculative Approaches to More-Than-Human Design

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• The National Festival of Making 2023

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Festival/Exhibition/Concert

• Bluedot Festival 2023

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Festival/Exhibition/Concert

• FASS CaKE Break - The Repair Shop 2049: Designing Repair Communities for Local Circular Futures

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• UKCEH/CEEDS; Sustainable Futures By Design: Speculative and Collaborative Methods in Practice

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Revista Base - Diseño e Innovación (Journal)

  Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity

• Equal-IoT: Co-designing Smart Technology Transitions for Sustainable & Equitable Futures

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• European Creative Hubs Network - The Making Rooms - Making Spaces

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

• Sustainable Design Futures Research: Impact & Engagement Knowledge Exchange

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• British Council Re-imagining Alternative Futures of Sustainability Through Design Fiction

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Resources, Conservation and Recycling (Journal)

  Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review

• EPSRC Fixing the Future Workshop - Gaming Communities

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

• EPSRC Fixing the Future Workshop - Industry Stakeholders

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

• Applying Sustainable Design Fiction Practice - Lancaster University Management School Guest Lecture/Workshop

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Beyond Zero: Sustainable Futures By Design

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Designing for Net Zero Futures Panel

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

• The Value of Design In The Fight for Climate Change Talk @ Northern Design Festival 2024

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Repair 101 - Climate Change and Design Workshop @ Northern Design Festival 2024

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Imagination Festival of Futures 2024

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Festival/Exhibition/Concert

• UKRI EPSRC DE-Nexus: Digital Economy Next Stage Symposium

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference - Academic

• UKRI Research England E3 Community of Practice Event

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference - Academic

• Sustainable Repair and Circularity Research: Accelerating Impact and Engagement

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Green Alliance Digital Exclusion and Electronic Waste Policy Advisory

  Activity: Expert Knowledge and Consultancy types › Expert Opinion

• Advancing Creative Physical Computing Education ​W​o​r​k​s​h​o​p @ ACM Designing Interactive Systems 2024

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

• Creating Sustainable Internet of Things Futures Workshop @ ACM Designing Interactive Systems 2024

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

• Technical Programme Committee member - Avoiding an Internet of Trash Track - ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2024) (Event)

  Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review

• The Morecombe Bay Curriculum Conference 2024

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

• How do we develop More-than-Human Design and Technology education to foster a Sustainable Future? 'Action' Roundtable at The Morecombe Bay Curriculum Conference 2024

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

• The National Festival of Making 2024

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Festival/Exhibition/Concert

• AHRC Generation Fix at the V&A London Digital Design Weekend 2024 / London Design Festival 2024

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Festival/Exhibition/Concert

• Futures at the Margins: adopting more-than-human perspectives

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Green Yonder: Sustainable Design Futures at Fourth Portal's Innovation Showcase 2024

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Festival/Exhibition/Concert

• LUMS Tech Catalyst Innovation: Designing Sustainable Technological Futures: Challenges and Opportunities

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Repair Futures: Collaboration, Creativity and Community @ Repair Space Blackburn Launch Event

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• UK Parliament - Green Alliance: Digital Inclusion and the Circular Economy

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Other

• Engaging Policymakers with Arts and Humanities Research Panel - Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN)

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

• Futures Favour the Brave: Designing Technological Futures - Lancaster University Management School Guest Lecture/Workshop

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Games, Streams and AI Mobiles: How Digital Technologies Are Shaping (Un)Sustainable Futures - Eco Collective Morecambe Guest Lecture/Workshop

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• EPSRC Fixing the Future Research Presentation - Repairing Communities through Collaboration and Creativity

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• EPSRC Fixing the Future Showcase @ Edinburgh Futures Institute

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Symposium

• Sustainability in Design Education Symposium 2025: What Was Sustainability? The Past, Present, and Future of Sustainability in Design and its Education @ TUDelft, Netherlands

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Symposium

• Reimagining Design Education to Engender Sustainable and Inclusive Futures: Developing More-than-Human Design Pedagogy

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Tinkering With Tech @ Campus In The City 2025 - Morecambe

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Festival/Exhibition/Concert

• Tinkering With Tech @ Campus In The City 2025 - Lancaster

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Press/Media

• The Repair Shop 2049 at ESRC Festival of Social Science 2022

  Press/Media: Newspaper Article

• Sustainability with Dr Michael Stead

  Press/Media: Other

• The Repair Shop 2049: part of Lancaster University at the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2022

  Press/Media: Other

• 60 Seconds with... Dr Michael Stead (Imagination Lancaster/Design)

  Press/Media: Other

• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC): Spark radio show/podcast with Nora Young: The Fight For Your Right To Repair Interview

  Press/Media: Research

• Future Observatory: Research Network - Dr Mike Stead

  Press/Media: Research

• BBC Radio Interview - Sustainable Design Futures Research at Fourth Portal's Innovation Showcase 2024

  Press/Media: Research

• The Fight to Repair: How the Battle Over the Right to Repair is Tipping in Favor of Consumers

  Press/Media: Expert Opinion

• AHRC - How Does Arts and Humanities Research Influence Public Policymaking?

  Press/Media: Research

Prizes

• ACM Best Provocation/Work in Progress Paper Award

  Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

Research outputs

• ‘Liberate the tractors’: the right to repair movement that’s regaining control of our devices

  Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputs › Web publication/site

• The Repair Shop 2049: Opening Salvo

  Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputs › Artefact

• Sustainable Transitions for HCI: Technologies, Fictions and Futures

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review

• The Repair Shop 2049: Co-Designing Sustainable and Equitable Transitions for Smart Device Repair with and for Local Communities

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• Connected Tech: Smart or Sinister?: A Call for Evidence from the Department of Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport

  Research output: Other contribution

• Fixing the Future: Cultivating a Capacity to Repair IoT Devices through Experiential Futures

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• UbiFix: Tackling Repairability Challenges in Smart Devices

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• The Repair Shop 2049 LED Badge Soldering Kit

  Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputs › Artefact

• A Technologically Sustainable, Responsible and Smarter Home

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter

• Smarter Repair 2053

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Assembly

  Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputs › Artefact

• Pet Tap

  Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputs › Artefact

• RepairLand

  Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputs › Artefact

• Creating Sustainable Internet of Things Futures: Aligning Legal and Design Research Agendas

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• Fostering IoT Repair Through Care: Learning from Emotional Durable Gaming Practices and Communities

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• EPSRC Fixing the Future Annual Report 2024

  Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Co-written Report

• Greetings from Silicon Heaven: Postcards from the IoT Afterlife

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• Liminal Excavations: A Zine that Explores Alternative Visions, Ideas and Critiques on the Topic of Sustainability and ICT

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Other › peer-review

• Pet Tap V2

  Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputs › Artefact

• RepairLand V2

  Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputs › Artefact

• Fostering IoT Repair Through Care: Learning from Emotional Durable Gaming Practices and Communities Poster

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• Gamers: Cultivating Sustainable Practices for Electronics Care

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Making the Connection: Ending Digital Exclusion With Reused Devices

  Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Other report

• Designing Sustainable IoT Futures

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Other

• More-than-Human Making: A Design Conjecture

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Other › peer-review

• ICT4S 2024: What Might A More Sustainable Internet of Things Look Like Zine

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Other › peer-review

• Re:Play - The Purposefully Broken Games Console

  Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputs › Web publication/site

• Gameful IoT Repair

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• Reimagining Design Education to Engender Sustainable and Inclusive Futures: Developing More-than-Human Design Pedagogy

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Abstract › peer-review