Volunteer Digital Media Lab
Contribute to public science communication through remote volunteer work in research, writing, audio, video, design, web, or outreach.
These are unpaid volunteer opportunities. Applicants from any country may apply. Work and availability are agreed by project.
Our purpose
The Human Factors Cast Digital Media Lab is a volunteer program of Human Factors Cast Foundation Limited, a 501(c)(3) public charity. The lab began in 2020. It explores ways to communicate psychology, engineering, ergonomics, and human factors through practical media projects.
Human factors considers how people interact with tools, tasks, technology, and environments. Our public education helps people ask better questions about design, safety, work, and everyday systems. Volunteers help turn research and conversations into material that people can read, watch, hear, and use.
Explore our free learning resources, media programs, and Foundation mission to decide how your interests fit the work.
Ways to contribute
Help find and review sources, prepare interview background, or develop clear explanations of human factors topics. This work connects published research with questions a public audience can understand. Tell us the subjects and writing tasks you would like to contribute to.
Contribute to editing, production, or adapting educational discussions for audio and video. Help make spoken material clear and usable in the format a project needs. Describe your tools, experience, and the parts of production you want to work on.
Help present science through graphics, layouts, web content, or improvements to how people find and use information. Share the design or technical tasks you can take on and how you approach accessible, understandable communication.
Help connect educational work with people who can use it. Contributions may involve preparing communication, organizing information, or supporting community-facing projects. Tell us which audiences or outreach tasks interest you.
Working together
These roles are remote and unpaid. There is no fixed weekly minimum. Before work begins, agree the task, expected contribution, communication, and timing with the lab. Let us know your availability and any limits you need the project to accommodate.
Applicants from any country may apply. Application eligibility does not guarantee acceptance. We review interests, fit with available work, and the capacity to support each new contributor.
This is volunteer participation in a nonprofit program. The application does not promise paid employment, an internship, academic credit, certification, publication, or a particular career outcome.
Application process
The lab can onboard up to five new volunteers per month. This is an onboarding limit, not a promise of five openings or immediate acceptance. Nick Roome reviews applications and coordinates onboarding for accepted contributors.
The application opens on hfcdml.com, the lab's own website. Its form explains how application information is handled. Optional measurement choices do not affect your application.
Apply on the Digital Media Lab website