Dr Alicja Pawluczuk

Alicja founded the Digital Youth Work Research Hub to connect different areas of knowledge and practice — bringing researchers, practitioners, policymakers and young people into genuine dialogue — and to make visible the hard, often unrecognised work of youth workers shaping digital futures for young people.

Dr Alicja Pawluczuk [Research Fellow at the INCLUDE+ and Founder of the Digital Youth Work Research Hub] has over a decade of experience in co-designing, facilitating, and evaluating digital inclusion, digital literacy and ICT-enabled and/or focused education programmes in the UK and internationally. Alicja has experience working both on high-level digital development programmes (e.g. United Nations University, ITU, EQUALS-EU, Council of Europe, USAID) as well as smaller-scale community-led projects (e.g. digital literacy workshops, digital rights). She has a track record of peer-reviewed publications and cross-disciplinary public engagement activities. Her research has informed a number of international policy-making efforts and recommendations in the context of digital inclusion.The key areas of her expertise include digital inclusion, gender digital divide, digital youth work, and digital and data literacy.