*INVITATION TO PROJECT LAUNCH* You are welcome to attend the formal launch of the Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing results, at a free virtual event 14.00 London time, on Thursday 26th May. Tickets are available here:- https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/anthropology-of-smartphones-and-smart-ageing-... This event marks the publication of the books *The Global Smartphone, Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland, and Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy*. As well as the first round of the Anthropology of Smartphones MOOC on the FutureLearn platform. At the launch, you can meet the full team ask them questions and consider contacting them for a fuller discussion about their work. Each of the team has carried out 16 months ethnography which will be the subject of a monograph. As well as research on the use and consequences of smartphones and the changing experience of ageing, most of us are involved in various health projects concerned with the use of smartphones for health. The team are as follows:- Laila Abed Rabho is a Palestinian researcher at the Harry S Truman Institute for the advancement of peace. She worked with Maya researching the Palestinian community of al-Quds. Patrick Awondo Is a lecturer at the University of Yaoundé in Cameroon. He is the author of *Le Sex et ses Doubles* about LGBT people fleeing homophobia in West Africa. His fieldwork was in a district of Yaoundé, Cameroon. Maya de Vries teaches courses at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She worked with Laila researching the Palestinian community of al-Quds. Marilia Duque is a researcher at ESPM, Sao Paulo and author of *Learning from Whatsapp. Best practices for health*. Her fieldsite was a district in Sao Paulo. Pauline Garvey is Associate Professor in Anthropology at Maynooth University Ireland. Her fieldsite was in Dublin, Ireland Laura Haapio-Kirk is a PhD student at University College London. Her fieldsites were in Kyoto and a rural area of Japan. Charlotte Hawkins is a PhD student at University College London. Her fieldsite was with a community in Kampala, Uganda. Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology at University College London. His fieldsite was in the region of Dublin, Ireland. Alfonso Otaegui is a lecturer in Anthropology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. An Argentinian, he studied Peruvian migrants in Santiago Chile and older Chileans learning to use smartphones. Shireen Walton is a lecturer at Goldsmith College London. Her research was with migrants in Milan, Italy. Xinyuan Wang is a postdoctoral researcher at University College London. Her fieldsite was a middle-class community in Shanghai, China. (The correct URL for the project trailer is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1roZ70N2gEI )