The Digital Futures Institute’s Centre for Technology and the Body is running a series of workshops in 2025 to foster interdisciplinary collaboration between the arts and humanities and health sciences at King’s College London. The series aims to create a space for research relationships, mentoring, and partnership building that leads to future funding bids.

Our first of four workshops, led by Barry Smith, will focus on exploring how we can start to build interdisciplinary collaboration across King’s. We will explore – first through a panel discussion and then in small groups – the opportunities and challenges of interdisciplinary working, from compiling teams to competing languages, to negotiating outcomes and ethical conflicts, as well as what impact looks like in interdisciplinary spaces. This will also be a space to shape the agenda for the following workshops.

This is an in-person only workshop, and is open to King’s research staff working in the arts and humanities and the health sciences. We also have a limited number of spaces for final year doctoral research students from these disciplines: if you are a final year doctoral student and would like to attend, please contact digitalfutures@kcl.ac.uk directly to book.

Location: The London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (100 Lambeth Palace Road, London, SE1 7AR), first floor space.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

For inquiries or requests, please contact digitalfutures@kcl.ac.uk.

The Centre for Technology and the Body is part of the Digital Futures institute that explores how we live well with technology. We welcome collaborative, critical investigation of the history, present and future of technology, and how it intersects with our physical, sensory, and emotional worlds.