Hello! The ESRC Digital Good Network <https://digitalgood.net/> is a new, £4 million research network focused on what a good digital society should look like and how we get there. It will build an interdisciplinary research community by: bringing disciplines and sectors together, supporting and funding interdisciplinary research, internships, fellowships; providing training; hosting events; and engaging policy, industry, practitioners, communities and civil society. On 7 March we will be launching the *Digital Good Research Fund* which will fund small-scale, pilot and scoping projects on how digital technologies can work for people and society. We invite proposals for projects that: - connect researchers with communities and organisations external to academic research to address challenges relating to the digital good, - explore how the digital good is defined and the terms we use to discuss it, - test methodological innovations for the digital good, - explore how to evaluate the digital good across different technologies, dimensions and perspectives. We will fund multiple projects in the range of £20,000 to £50,000. The deadline for applications is 28 April 2023. We will be holding an application sandpit event in late March, please sign up to our mailing list <http://eepurl.com/idhmon> if this would be of interest. We will also be opening applications for our first *Digital Good Network Summer School* for PhD students on 7 March. The summer school is a fully funded opportunity for PhD researchers to engage with a range of theoretical, methodological and professional development topics relating to the digital good. It will take place in Sheffield on 22 & 23 June 2023. Application details will be on our website <https://digitalgood.net/>, the deadline will be 24 March. As part of the launch of the research fund, we will be holding a series of *lunchtime events*: - Tues 7 March at 13:00, we ask our panel of experts, ‘What is the digital good?’ with Helen Kennedy, Gina Neff and Ros Williams. Sign up here <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-good-network-what-is-the-digital-good-tickets-541016965307?aff=ebdsoporgprofile> . - Weds 8 March at 13:00, we will share more about the network and what we are looking for in funded projects. Sign <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-good-network-our-funding-opportunities-and-what-are-we-looking-for-tickets-551147235217?aff=ebdsoporgprofile> up here <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-good-network-our-funding-opportunities-and-what-are-we-looking-for-tickets-551147235217?aff=ebdsoporgprofile> . - Thurs 9 March at 13:00, we ask successful early career applicants what makes a good application. Sign up here <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-good-network-qa-with-successful-early-career-applicants-tickets-551150404697?aff=ebdsoporgprofile>. Everyone is welcome, come along to find out more. To keep updated: Sign up to our mailing list: http://eepurl.com/idhmon Contact us: info@digitalgood.net Twitter: https://twitter.com/digitalgoodnet LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-good-network/ Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@digitalgoodnet Best wishes Helen -- Helen Kennedy, Director, ESRC Digital Good Network <https://digitalgood.net/>, @digitalgoodnet Professor of Digital Society, @hmtk, Living With Data <https://livingwithdata.org/>, she/her *LATEST PUBLICATION: * Generic visuals of Covid-19 in the news: Invoking banal belonging through symbolic reiteration <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13678779211061415>(2022, w/Giorgia Aiello, Chris W Anderson, Camilla Mørk Røstvik, *I**nternational Journal of Cultural Studies*.