What We Do

About Huddle

Huddle is a design research studio specializing in collaborative approaches to responsible innovation (RI). We help to:

✓   Clarify problem FRAMING & Define RI objectives

✓   Conduct aCTOR mapping & Needs Assessments

✓   Support RI Roadmapping & Implementation

✓   AND MORE…

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Joseph Donia, BA, MSc

A designer by experience and social scientist by training, I help teams to co-design more inclusive, responsive, and responsible products, policies, services, and programs.

I have held research and policy advisory roles within the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology & Society, Ontario Ministry of Health, Women’s College Hospital, and the University of Toronto. I am also the founder of the award-winning communications consultancy CONNECT. In 2021-22 I was the Benita M. Warmbold Fellow in Health System Innovation at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto.

My work has been published in leading interdisciplinary venues including Big Data & Society, Science and Engineering Ethics, the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), and the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES).

I hold an MSc from the Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation at the University of Toronto and a BA from Toronto Metropolitan University.