Dr Louise Mullagh

Lecturer in Arts Management

Profile

Louise Mullagh is a researcher and lecturer exploring the intersections of data, place, and cultural institutions. Her work challenges data-driven understandings of the world, advocating for situated, lived experiences to be integrated into digital knowledge systems. Her research explores the concept of “more-than-data”, which critiques algorithmic representations of place and proposes walking and research through design as methods for embodied data inquiry.

Louise’s research and teaching spans Critical Data Studies, digital curation, and participatory design, with a particular focus on how AI and emerging technologies are reshaping cultural institutions and governance. She has used design fiction and speculative methods to engage policymakers in rethinking data-driven decision-making.

Currently, she is investigating the relationship between data-driven and situated understandings of place, decentralised knowledge curation and AI’s role in creative industries. Her work contributes to rethinking data activism, participatory governance, and the future of cultural knowledge systems in an increasingly algorithmic world.

Supporting ‘Good’ Adoption of Generative AI
13/01/2025 → 31/03/2025
Research

The Future of AI in Creative and Cultural Industries
29/11/2024 → …
Research

DSI: Equity for the Older: Beyond Digital Access
01/10/2022 → 31/08/2025
Research

Imagination Networks: Designing Place Based Policy
14/03/2022 → 31/05/2022
Research

Participatory Policies for IoT (at the Edge) Ethics
03/05/2021 → 29/10/2021
Research

Design Fusion Consultancy
01/03/2021 → 31/07/2021
Consultancy

Revealing the Mill Race: Exploring More-than-Data in the city
31/07/2018 → 31/08/2019
Research

IASDR 2023 (Event)
Publication peer-review

AI Futures
Symposium

6th International Conference of Public Policy
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

‘More-than-design’ for policy making: an opportunity for engaging creative methods for future policies
Oral presentation

DRS 2022 Bilbao (Event)
Publication peer-review

DRS 2022 Bilbao
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Design in Place Based Policy Workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Policy Design and Practice Journal (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Evidence and Policy : A Journal of Research Debate and Practice (Journal)
Publication peer-review

DRS Bilbao 2022 - Track Co-chair
Other

Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
Editorial activity

The Design Journal (Journal)
Publication peer-review

PPITEE Policy prototyping workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

PPITEE Project poster presentation
Oral presentation

Urban Health and Wellbeing: A Systems Approach
Invited talk

UHWB Conference 2021: Cities under COVID-19: a Systems Perspective
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

PPITEE Walking Workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Design for Policy workshop series with UNU-IIGH
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

International Research Society for Public Management
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

International Research Society for Public Management
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Policy Design or Design for Policy or Something Else? Defining the Relationship Between Policy and Design
Oral presentation

Fifteenth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

The Design Research Society (External organisation)
Membership of committee

Co-Design (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Policy and Governance Special Interest Group (Design Research Society) - Chair for Research
Other

Living Design: Design for Sustainability in Local Maker Enterprises
Invited talk

Sensing Place: Walking as an exploration of located knowledge
Invited talk

Revealing the Mill Race
Other

Living Design: Design for Sustainability in Local Maker Enterprises
Invited talk

Essence of Place - A Syros Workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Data Publics: Investigating the formation and representation of crowds, groups and clusters in digital economies
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Data Publics: Investigating the formation and representation of crowds, groups and clusters in digital economies
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Data Publics: Investigating the formation and representation of crowds, groups and clusters in digital economies
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Data Publics: Investigating the formation and representation of crowds, groups and clusters in digital economies
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Walk and Talk: Sunderland Point
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Walking and talking
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Green Food Technology, Ubicomp 2013
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

  • Cultures
  • Imagination Lancaster