Caroline (Caro) Claisse, PhD is a Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Interaction Design at Open Lab, Newcastle University. She is a designer by background inspired by Feminist, Social Justice and More-than-Human research. In her current work, she takes a design-led and co-creative approach to engage voluntary organisations and marginalised groups in research to inform the design of digital technologies and services that support personalised care and community well being.
Abigail Durrant, PhD is a Professor of Interaction Design and Co-Director of Open Lab, Centre for Digital Citizens, and Northern Health Futures Hub at Newcastle University, predominantly working in the interdisciplinary and cross-sector field of HCI. Abi practices RtD using participatory and co-creative methods, for supporting dialogue, equitable engagement and digital inclusion. In her most recent collaborations, she critically engages with regional infrastructural programmes of digital transformation in health and care (e.g. about involvement in research on health data interactions).
Deborah Jones, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Criminology, Sociology, and Social Policy at Swansea University. Professor Jones is also the head of the School of Social Sciences. Throughout her research, she has focused on developing methodologies that are both inclusive and creative and has endeavoured to make academic research accessible to the community through a series of public education activities. In particular she has focused on the regulation of the sex industry co-leading The Student Sex Work Project. She has also explored how Higher Education can support desistance from offending.
Juan Fernando Maestre, PhD is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Computer Science at Swansea University. His research applies novel participatory design methods to recruit and conduct research both in person and remotely with vulnerable populations such as people living with stigmatized conditions and/or identities. He strives for a successful integration of novel research methods in order to design and assess the impact of technology-based interventions that support stigmatized, marginalized, and vulnerable populations.
Angelika Strohmayer, PhD is an Assistant Professor and co-leader of the Design Feminisms Research Group at Northumbria University's School of Design. She is an interdisciplinary researcher, working closely with third sector organisations and other stakeholders to co-design digital and craft-based interventions in service delivery and advocacy work. Her research lies at various intersections of practice-led and theoretical research surrounding issues of feminist and social justice-orientations.
Sarah Wydall is a Professor in the Department of Criminology, Sociology, and Social Policy at Swansea University. Their research interests focus on gendered harms, particularly on domestic abuse in later life. Since 2010, they have led on fifteen research projects, covering domestic abuse perpetrators, children and young people, victims labelled 'high risk' and more recently the intersection of later life, gender, disability and sexual identity. They have also co-produced and evaluated a Virtual Reality intervention ‘Through their eyes as a training tool for the police and other service providers.
Mark Warner, PhD is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Computer Science at UCL. He is an HCI researcher working at the intersection of privacy, security, and safety. Prior work includes research on sensitive disclosures within dating apps, drawing on user-centred research methods to engage with stigmatised users to better understand their lived experiences of disclosure within these apps. More recently, he has been involved in research analysing privacy mechanisms in FemTech apps and was involved in an interdisciplinary project exploring the use of data-driven systems to support the UK's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.