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Helen specializes in conducting participatory, arts-based research and is currently working on a variety of projects around the theme of urban learning and smart technologies, in the UK and in Mexico.\u00a0She is currently leading the innovative\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/briscityfellows.blogs.bristol.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bristol City Fellows project<\/a>\u00a0(with McDermont), working alongside communities at the margins to co-design city futures. Her research is methodologically innovate and\u00a0involves collaboration with artists, technologists, young and older people, community organizations and policy-makers. Recent\u00a0publications include:\u00a0Learning to be a Smart Citizen (Oxford Review of Education), and Co-designing technologies for care: spaces of co-habitation (<i>Interdisciplinary critical studies of age and technology).<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11168,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"members-type":[873],"class_list":["post-6590","biography","type-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","members-type-authors"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Helen Manchester - WISE (Qatar Foundation)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wise.staging-dev.com\/ar\/biography\/helen-manchester\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ar_AR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Helen Manchester - WISE (Qatar Foundation)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr Helen Manchester is a Reader in Digital Inequalities and Urban Futures at the University of Bristol. 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