Future Proof

Shannon is the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence and Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures in the Edinburgh Futures Institute. Her research explores how emerging technologies reshape human moral and intellectual character, and maps the ethical challenges and opportunities posed by new uses of data and artificial intelligence.

Chris is Director of EFI and Chair of Design Informatics and Co-Director of the Institute that encompasses researchers working across the disciplines of interaction design, temporal design, anthropology, software engineering and digital architecture. Chris’ research involves extensive collaboration with a wide variety of partners to explore how design provides methods to adapt and create products and services within a networked society, worth more than £65m to date.

Wendy is Dean of the University of Edinburgh Business School and Professor of Organisational Behaviour. Her research focuses on the ways in which gender, age and health interact to affect later-life work and retirement experiences.

Neil is Professor of Innovation and Social Informatics at the University of Edinburgh Business School, where he teaches and conducts research on the topic of digital innovation and digital entrepreneurship. He is primarily known for his interdisciplinary research on IT that sits at the intersection between Information Systems, Innovation Studies and Economic Sociology.

Tina is Professor of Financial Services Marketing and Consumption and her research interests are around consumer use and the role of technology. She has conducted research for the Money Advice Service into young adults’ financial capability and an ESRC project on the impact of the internet on the pensions industry.

Gianluca is Lecturer in Medieval History. His research explores political culture and political structures in the central Middle Ages, covering Europe and the Mediterranean. He is currently working on projects on the Italian city republics and crusading, and on cultural border crossing in the Mediterranean on the eve of the crusades. Gianluca is also interested in the relationship between the humanities and the creative industries, which led to the launch of the History and Games Lab at the University of Edinburgh

As Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, Andrew leads the Children and Technology group as co-director of the Digital Education Research Centre. Andrew has led and co-led multiple externally funded projects (Wellcome, ESRC, Carnegie, ScotPEN, EPSRC, NESTA, Innovate, NSF) and has spun out two companies to commercialise this work. Andrew’s recent focus has been on the role of data in early learning – the ethical design of technologies and ways to support children’s understanding and ability to consent to giving such personal data.

As Professor of Finance at the University of Edinburgh, Deputy Scientific Director at the Fondazione European Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre in Pescara and Fellow at the RoZetta Institute in Sydney, Gbenga’s research sits at the intersection of the economics of markets (financial and environmental), data science and policy. His work on the microstructure of high-tech financial markets has interested practitioners and policy makers/regulators, and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), where he is often a Research Visitor – his research on dark pools and interest rate swaps were also published by the FCA.

Ewa holds a personal chair in Human-Data Interaction, is Director of Research Innovation for Edinburgh College of Art and Co-Director of the Institute of Design Informatics. She is also Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. In research terms, her work explores applied ethical issues and intelligibility of complex data-driven systems, with a particular interest in distribution of power, spheres of exclusion and consent.

Melissa is the Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage in Design Informatics, leads digital aspects of research within CAHSS as Founding Director of the Centre for Data, Culture and Society and builds digital capacity in the Edinburgh Futures Institute as EFI Research Director. Her research focuses on digitisation of cultural heritage, including its technologies, procedures, and impact, and how this intersects with internet technologies.

Debi is a Professor of International Child Protection Research and Director of Data for Childlight, a new global data institute at the University of Edinburgh focused on understanding the prevalence and nature of child sexual exploitation and abuse globally. She is also lead for the UNICEF Long-Term Framework Agreement at the University of Edinburgh. Prof Fry leads a wide variety of research globally on preventing violence against children and ensuring effective responses with the goal that all children can grow up free from experiencing violence.