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Partnerships and Engagement Manager

Change what we can see. See what we can change.

Sofia Kakembo

PhD Student at Diverse CDT, based at University of Warwick

Sofia is a Senior Design Researcher and Service Designer with a portfolio career spanning a range of roles and sectors. Her professional experiences inform her autoethnographic approach: she has spent years inside organisations watching data go unused and stories go untold.

Her doctoral research sits at the intersection of inclusive data visualisation, civic participation and organisational storytelling: exploring what becomes possible when people are empowered to engage with their own data, professionally and personally.

She is Colorintech’s inaugural Visiting Researcher-in-Residence; Co-Leads the London Data Week ‘Data Art and Data Visualisation’ working group and is also developing an artistic practice informed by her research.

Research Interests

  • Design Justice
  • Intersectional accessibility
  • Civic participation
  • Data storytelling
  • Change management
  • Co-creation
  • Service Design
  • Systems thinking
  • Mixed methods research
  • Early career researcher experiences
  • Data art and data visualisation advocacy and practice

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