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Professor Gillian Youngs, Visiting Professor of Design and Digital Strategy in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, focuses on digital and virtual futures in applied research on digital economy, globalization and feminist international relations. Her policy-related contributions identify creative arts and design as key to expanding understanding of innovation beyond tech.

Gillian’s project work with entrepreneurs and innovators in the start-up ecosystem is featured in the 76-page report The FUSE at Ten: Reviewing a Decade of Research Impact launched at the House of Lords in May 2023. In 2020 Gillian became a Fellow of the Women’s Engineering Society in recognition of her outstanding contribution to digital economy and sustained support of women in STEM.