London Knowledge Lab

The London Knowledge Lab was launched in 2004. It is a unique collaboration between two of the UK’s most prominent centres of world-class research – the Institute of Education and Birkbeck. The Lab brings together computer and social scientists from a very broad range of fields, including education, sociology, and culture and media, among others. Their mission is to understand the place of digital technologies and media in our cultural, social and educational relationships with knowledge; design, build and evaluate systems, processes and interfaces that enhance learning, both formal and informal, throughout life; and examine critically the assumptions about knowledge and learning that underlie the increasingly wide range of applications of digital technologies.