Critical Bestiaries of AI: Reimagining Monsters - Collaborators
Professor of Social and Ethical Aspects of Genomics
Nina Hallowell a Professor in the Ethox Centre, and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics & Humanities and a Fellow of Reuben College, Oxford. Nina is the CoDirector of the EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre in Health Data Science and is responsible for ethics training in this programme Her research focuses on the use of AI ( facial recognition technology) in healthcare, and she is also interested in the deployment of facial recognition technology for surveillance purposes.
Associate Professor of the Anthropology of data and infrastructure
Rachel Douglas-Jones is Associate Professor of the Anthropology of data and infrastructure at the IT University of Copenhagen. She heads the Technologies in Practice group and has co-directed the experimental techno-humanities ETHOS Lab since 2015. She is the lead author of A Bestiary of Digital Monsters (2018) and Museum Implosions (2020).
Public Engagement Manager
Milly Farrell joined the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities (WEH) in December 2018 and manages the public engagement programme.
Milly trained as a bioarchaeologist and began her career as a museum curator, focusing on the human and animal collections at various London museums, including the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons and the Museum of London. Through a range of outreach projects and exhibitions, Milly worked to engage the public in the research of these museums and their wider collections; with a particular focus on disability access and engagement with collections for people who are blind or partially sighted.
Prior to her work at WEH, Milly was the Research Engagement Officer at Oxford Brookes University. In her five years at Brookes, Milly worked on a range of science communication and outreach events, and established the University’s Public Engagement Network in 2017.
Find out more about the Critical Bestiaries of AI: Reimagining Monsters project here.
This project is funded by the Minderoo AI Challenge Fund.
