Dr Naomi Jacobs
Lecturer in Design Policy and Futures ThinkingResearch Overview
Naomi is Lecturer in Design Policy and Futures Thinking. As an interdisciplinary academic, her work crosses various disciplines including design, computer science, social science, and fan and audience studies. Naomi's previous work has focused primarily on interaction; between individuals, communities, disciplines or sectors, and between people and technology and the media they consume.
Her current research often uses speculative design methods and design fiction, and focuses on how technologies such as IoT and AI are being implemented and governed. This includes research related to design for policy, particularly in the context of policy for ethical use of new technologies. She also co-leads the cross-university Fan Studies Lancaster research group.
Naomi has published papers on topics including the impact of AI on design teaching, the governance of smart cities, livestreaming of fan conventions, speculative uses of data and technology in food supply chains, and how to use zombie apocalypse modelling for epidemiology education.
PhD Supervision Interests
My research is interdisciplinary and crosses areas including design, computer science, and fan and audience studies. I am particularly interested in supervising PhD projects relating to: Speculative Design and Design Fiction; Ethical challenges relating to new and emerging technologies; Fan studies, particularly relating to digital/physical fan activity and online communities; The interaction with the above topics and Design for Policy.
Supporting ‘Good’ Adoption of Generative AI
13/01/2025 → 31/03/2025
Research
Creative Methodologies for Inclusive Healthcare Design Fututres
01/01/2025 → …
Research
Speculative Woolgathering: Anticipatory Evaluation of Digital Good
01/10/2024 → 11/07/2025
Research
The Queer Lives of the Hospital: An Archive of LGBTQIA+ Experiences of Hospital Environments
01/03/2024 → …
Research
E3: Taking IoT for a walk
01/04/2022 → 30/09/2023
Research
Participatory Policies for IoT (at the Edge) Ethics
03/05/2021 → 29/10/2021
Research
E3: Participatory Policies for IoT Ethics (P-PITE)
01/05/2021 → 15/07/2022
Research
E3: Design fiction for ethics in AI food data trusts
01/06/2020 → 30/11/2020
Research
The Creative Exchange
09/01/2012 → 30/06/2017
Research
SPRITE+ Expert Fellows meeting
Symposium
Campus in the City
Other
Digital Good Network Summit March
Symposium
Speculative Woolgathering Workshop 2
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Routledge (Publisher)
Publication peer-review
Speculative Woolgathering Workshop 1
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
National Centre for Research Methods: MethodsCon 2024: Futures
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Re-Imagining Design Pedagogy
Invited talk
DRS 2024 BOSTON
Participation in conference - Academic
Archiving the ephemeral in digital public space
Oral presentation
Cheshire East Chamber of Commerce AI for Small Businesses
Other
Campus in the City
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
Designing the Future of Digital Twins in Healthcare
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Public Design Review
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Designing Ethical Policies for IoT in the Public Realm
Oral presentation
Imagination Now & Next at the Festival of Futures
Symposium
Imagination Now & Next at the Festival of Futures
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Fan Studies and Design Symposium
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Fan Studies and Design Symposium
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Killer Fandom book launch
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
FAN STUDIES LANCASTER/ANLU/TAP –Fan/Audience Studies Joint Seminar Series
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Fashion Forward
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
FAN STUDIES NETWORK–NORTH AMERICA 2023
Participation in conference - Academic
AI Futures
Symposium
The Synthetic City 2023
Participation in conference - Academic
Fashion Forward
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Taking IoT for a Walk
Influence on Policy, Practice, Patients & the Public
‘More-than-design’ for policy making: an opportunity for engaging creative methods for future policies
Oral presentation
ESRC Festival of Social Science 2022
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
TEA Talks
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
FanLIS at Home: Fanbinding and/as Design
Oral presentation
PETRAS Community Development: Design Fiction and Speculative Design for Research and Public Engagement
Invited talk
DRS 2022 Bilbao
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
P-PITEE
Oral presentation
Artificial Intelligence and ethics within the food sector:
Invited talk
The Design of Printed Fanfiction: Down to Agincourt and Fanbinding as Affective Practice
Oral presentation
FanLIS 2022
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Design in Place Based Policy Workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Imagination Design Research Showcase
Invited talk
AI4SD Conference 2022
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Lancaster University (Publisher)
Editorial activity
PPITEE Policy prototyping workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
PPITEE Project poster presentation
Oral presentation
Fan Studies Network North America Conference 2021
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Association of Internet Researchers Conference 2021
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
PPITEE Walking Workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
United Nations University Early Career Professional Workshops Series
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Creating an Atlas of Design and Policy
Oral presentation
Internet of Food Things Network+ Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Fan Studies Network North America Conference 2020
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Challenges to Cross Disciplinary Collaboration as applied to Fan Studies
Oral presentation
PraxisUnico Conference 2015
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Stories of Creative Exchange
Invited talk
AHRC Four Hubs event
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
DMI Conference - Leading Innovation Through Design
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Doing things differently: Knowledge Exchange between Arts and Humanities and the creative economy
Invited talk
- Energy Lancaster
- Fan Studies Lancaster
- Imagination Lancaster
- Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre
- School of Design