Harriet Simms (she/her) is a Research Associate at Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh. She is working on the research project 'Citizens Data Agency', exploring people’s data needs both today and in the future, with the aim of understanding how to better enhance privacy and security for people using digital technologies. The project is funded by REPHRAIN, a national Research centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence online. Her design research interests are in participatory design, community-led design, deliberative democracy and place.

Aditi Surana (she/her) is a design researcher and PhD candidate at Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh, and a Marie Curie Fellow at the DCODE Network. Her research focuses on using design methods to build people-centred governance practices for digital technologies in the public sector. By engaging stakeholders from policy, public sector, industry, and civil society, her research explores ways of centring notions of justice and human rights within existing Responsible AI and governance processes. Previously, she worked as a service / interaction designer on conversational and voice interfaces. She is also a co-organiser of the AI Ethics & Society group at the University of Edinburgh. 

Carlos Guerrero Millan (he/his) is a PhD candidate at Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh and a Marie Curie Fellow at the DCODE Network. His work focuses on community technologies in the context of cooperative organisations outside of mainstream Western values, particularly collaborating with Indigenous groups. He’s currently working in the co-creation of local notions of data and contextual information that community members collect based on their interests for safeguarding and exchanging it, inciting to the participatory appropriation, repurposing and adaptation of context-based systems.

Natalia-Rozalia Avlona (she/her) is a lawyer (LLM), and Marie Curie Ph.D. Fellow (DCODE) at the Computer Science Department of the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on the creation and implementation of medical datasets in the AI-driven Health Care Sector. She is employing ethnographic methods to investigate these processes as socio-technical assemblages of human expertise and infrastructural capacities conditioned by the obligation for regulatory compliance. Ηer aim is to translate the experts’ nitty-gritty practices of data creation and implementation in the health-tech and healthcare sector, to the ways policymakers perceive, and hence regulate these systems. 

Natalia's expertise lies at the intersection of emerging technologies, law, and society. For over a decade, she has been at the forefront of open and emerging technologies, focusing on their legal and ethical implications. What sets her apart is her unwavering commitment to the intersectional feminist agenda. She has been a strong advocate for the design of alternative legal propositions and governance models based on the logic of commons, reflecting her dedication to social justice.

She is currently a Management Committee member of the Cost Action Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (P-WILL). From 2017-2021 she was MC member of the 'From Sharing to Caring' Cost Action.

SJ Bennett (they/them) is a Research Associate in the Algorithmic Societies project at Durham University. Their research examines the socio-material processes shaping the design, development and use of Artificial Intelligence, with research interests at the intersection of Critical Data Studies, Data Justice and social (and political) epistemology. Other ongoing projects include developing and implementing a critical Care Ethics framework for deliberative governance of data collaboratives and co-organising the AI Ethics and Society group.

Prof Ewa Luger (she/her) is co-director of the Institute of Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, and co-Director of AHRC’s Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) programme. Working with policymakers and industry, her research explores the social, ethical and interactional issues of datadriven systems, with a particular interest in design, the distribution of power, spheres of exclusion and user consent. Past projects have focused on responsible AI, voice systems and language models in use, and application of AI in journalism and public service media.

Dr Bettina Nissen (she/her) is a Lecturer in Interaction Design and design researcher at the Institute for Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Her practice-based design research focuses on engaging audiences with complex technological concepts and data through tangible interactions and playful installations. Bettina has worked on research projects spanning topics of trust, consent, privacy and collaborative feminist economic perspectives of mutual care and social justice. She is currently CO-I of REPHRAIN (https://www.rephrain.ac.uk/) a UKRI National Research Center on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online.