Allison Littlejohn

English National Opera’s dazzling performance this evening at the wonderful London Coliseum #enopinafore

Great to participate in the UCL Grand Challenges Winter Reception at the Grant Zoology Museum where James Hetherington and I gave an update on the first year of the UCL Grand Challenge of Data Empowered Societies. Thanks to the DES Team and to Geraint Rees for amazing leadership.

Well said James!

Delighted to join today’s UCL Policy Lab Roundtable on AI, the future of Work and the Role of the University. There was a broad panel of participants with distinctive & fascinating perspectives. HE mist be relevant to student needs, but what is ‘relevant’ increasingly is difficult to predict

Delighted to be on this panel at the university of Oslo debating the education/work interface in an era of AI. With Regina Mulder, Francisvo Duran del Fierro, Koula Charitonos, Monika Nerland

We have funded 10 ambitious Challenge-led Awards through the @UCL Grand Challenge Data Empowered Societies, University College London www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challe...

At Lords Cricket Ground today with colleagues ftom Honda R&D to talk about UCL Grand Challenges Data Empowered Societies the future of Ed Tech and Health Tech

Wonderful ethereal sounds this evening at the Kingsplace London in a concert by the Terje Isungset Quartet who used instruments crafted from Norwegian glaciers.

#Parkrun #HampsteadHeath #London

What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing

‘By amplifying [knowledge] hierarchies, GenAI risks contributing to the erasure of systems of understanding that have evolved over centuries, disconnecting future generations from vast bodies of insight and wisdom. ‘ via The Guardian www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

‘Godfather of AI’ becomes first person to hit one million citations The milestone makes machine-learning trailblazer Yoshua Bengio the most cited researcher on Google Scholar.

Wise words from
Yoshua Bengio -
first person to reach 1m citations. “It should not become an objective for researchers to have more citations, because it leads into trying to optimize this rather than do good science and go after the truth.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Pleased to meet with a delegation of university leaders from Ukraine to progress our MOU on the UCL-Ukraine knowledge exchange to support sustainable transition in areas of education, health & infrastructure renewal. Via UCL Data Empowered Societies Grand Challenge.

A Multidisciplinary Research Agenda for ArtificialIntelligence, Education, Learning, and Instruction. Our new paper in Postdigital Science. Led by Jimmy Jaldemark. link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

Congratulations Raunak

UCL and Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation forge strategic partnership to drive innovation UCL and the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine (MDT) have entered into a landmark partnership to advance Ukraine's digital transformation and economic recovery through research, innovation,...

UCL Grand Challenges launched a strategic partnership with Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation to drive digital innovation. UCL will support knowledge exchange in key strategic areas. I was honoured to take part remotely in the signing ceremony: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no...

Slippery conditions on the HampsteadHeath #Parkrun today. But a lovely autumnal day in London.

It was good to meet the Minister for Law in Singapore, Edwin Tong, to discuss the importance of creativity in education and how data, AI and digital technologies are impacting creativity in both positive and negative ways www.facebook.com/watch/?v=119...

Amazing concert by Julie Fowlis and fellow musicians this evening. This is the third time I’ve heard Julie in London this year - at the Southbank, Pavilion and here at Cadogan Hall. Each concert has been different and each so inspiring.

Pleased to join the AI Global Summit at Friends House, Bloomsbury, London today. Packed auditorium!

Thanks Sue. Hope you’re well!

Wicken to Leckhampstead 12km circular walk in Northamptonshire, England on a lovely, Autumnal day

Today I will be talking at the DRI Congress in Leeds,UK, about our UKRI funded research with the National Federated Compute Services on ‘Inclusive Futures’ in federated computing. Led by UCL with Hartree & the Edinburgh Futures Institute at Edinburgh University. These are our objectives:

Our hosts ftom the National Institute of Education, Singapore reflect upon our visit there for the Professorships Summit and NIE 75th anniversary during the week of October 6th 2025 www.facebook.com/watch/?v=132...

#Parkrun Hampstead Heath, London

Pleased to collaborate with Bruce McCandliss, Carol Chan & George Augustine reviewing the Science of Learning in Education Centre (SoLEC) at the National Institute of Education, Singapore www.ntu.edu.sg/nie/science-...

Had a great meeting at the Singapore Ministry of Education today with the team that oversee education research, including Dr Teh Laik Woon. Advancing the Science of Learning in Singapore

After a hard days work, a lovely dinner with colleagues. Pleased to participate in the review of the Science of Learning in Education Centre, a research centre within the National Institute of Education in Singapore.

The research I presented is a collective effort with my close collaborators and distinguished researchers Dr Francisco Duran del Fierro, Prof Eileen Kennedy, Dr Louise Chisholm from ICL and Dr Koula Charitinos from the OpenUniversity.

Honoured to be invited to present an open seminar at the National Institute of Education Singapore, as DrRuth Wong Visiting Professor. I discussed social & cultural barriers faced by professionals as they use data and digital technologies, reflecting on implications for teachers.

Gardens by the Bay, Singapore. I’ve seen many photos of the gardens but they have to be seen (in person) to be believed. Absolutely stunning.