Helen Manchester Associate Professor in Digital Inequalities & Urban Futures at the University of Bristol

Dr Helen Manchester is an Associate Professor in Digital Inequalities and Urban Futures at the University of Bristol. She started out as a teacher in secondary schools, and a community media practitioner, before entering academia. She works at the intersection of education, technology and cultural studies. In the last six years she has led a number of UKRI funded research projects leading interdisciplinary and cross sectoral partnerships to tackle urban challenges, particularly concerning demographic ageing. Helen specialises 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. She works alongside city leaders to design approaches to tackling challenges faced by the city that involve citizens.