Resumé

​•    Co-editor: The Good Robot: 35 Leading Thinkers in Feminism and Technology (Bloomsbury Academic 2023). 

In this lively, accessible, and wide-ranging volume, twenty leading scholars and technologists tell us, what is good technology? Is ‘good’ technology even possible? And what is feminism contributing? Based on interviews with University of Cambridge researchers Dr Eleanor Drage and Dr Kerry Mackereth, The Good Robot: Interviews with Leading Thinkers on Feminism and Technology is a collection of extended interviews from the podcast consituting original work from 35 leading feminist thinkers and technologists.

•    Co-editor: Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data and Intelligent Machines (Oxford University Press 2023).

A crucial collection for anyone, across academic disciplines and beyond the academy, concerned with the ways in which AI can exacerbate existing social and epistemic injustices (forthcoming, Oxford University Press).

•    With Federica Frabetti: “AI that Matters: A Feminist Approach to the Study of Intelligent Machines”, Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data and Intelligent Machines (OUP 2023).

•    With Federica Frabetti: “Copies Without an Original: the Performativity of Biometrics at Border Control”, Theory, Culture and Society 30, 4 (2023) 

•    With Federica Frabetti: “The Performativity of AI Protest Recognition: Predictive Policing and Why Looking for ‘Bias’ is Not a Solution”, Science, Technology, & Human Values (2023).

•    “Who Makes AI? Gender and Portrayals of AI Scientists in Popular Film 1920-2020”, Public Understanding of Science, with Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal and Kerry Mackereth (Feb 2023)  

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•    “Decoding Digital Prejudice”, Institute for Arts and Ideas TV, 3 September 2021, https://iai.tv/articles/decoding-digital-prejudice-auid-1878?fbclid=IwAR3h0CcFMhGUXQFA7E3d1nV35Ay7zlC-27et831wnVihSBUXG5X5XfcUgZs

•    With Kerry Mackereth: 'Does AI Debias Recruitment? Race, Gender, and AI’s “Eradication of Difference”', Philosophy & Technology 35, 89 (2022).

•    Performative Assemblages: Race, Gender, and Technology in Science Fiction”, Performing Cultures of Gender Equality, Routledge GRACE Series Volume 2, edited by Emilia M. Durán-Almarza and Isabel Carrera- Suárez, Routledge. (Nov/2020).

•    “‘Bugs’, ‘Broken Binaries’, and Malware: Investigating Gender and the Human in Science Fiction’s Depictions of Technological Malfunction”, Investigating Cultures of Gender Equality, Routledge GRACE Series, Volume 3. (Feb/2021).  

•     “Making Ends Meet in a Superintelligent Slum: Artificial Intelligence and Economic Precarity in Nicoletta Vallorani’s Il Cuore Finto di DR”, Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research (FAFNIR). (Jun/2020).

•    “A Geocritical Exploration of ‘Racial’ and Gendered Spaces in Contemporary Science Fiction”. Women’s Voices and Genealogies in Literary Studies in English. Cambridge Scholars, 2019, pp. 180-192.

•    “Science, Myth, and Spirits: Re-inventions of Science Fiction by Women of Colour Writers, Between Africa, Europe and the Caribbean”. Studies on Home and Community Science, vol. 11, no. 2, 2018, pp. 77-85.

•    “A Virtual Ever-After: Utopia, Race, and Gender in Black Mirror's ‘San Junipero’”. Black Mirror and Critical Media Theory, edited by Angela M. Cirucci and Barry Vacker, Lexington Books, 2018, pp. 27-39.

•    “The Challenge of Invisible Cities: a Calvinian Adventure through Literature and Contemporary Art”, by Bertrand Westphal. (Post)Colonial Passages: Incursions and Excursions across the Literatures and Cultures in English, edited by Silvia Albertazzi et al., Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018, pp. 6-21.

•    “In the Hard Times, (and the Good): Solidarities Beyond Race and Gender in Critical Utopian and Dystopian Women’s Science Fiction.” deGenere: Small Islands? Transnational Solidarity in Contemporary Literature and Arts, no. 3, 2017, pp. 34-47.

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•  "Young and Successful - How to Ace your Career", BNP Paribas, March/2023

•  "New Thinking", Arts & Ideas BBC Radio 4, Feb/2023

 

•   Keynote, "Can AI De-bias Recruitment?", AI World Congress, October/2022. 

•   "Can AI De-bias Recruitment?", Conference on AI, Ethics & Society (AIES), August/2022. 

•   "AI Ethics in Industry", Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, August/2022. 

•    York Festival of Ideas/Invented Futures, June/2022. 

•    Roundtable on monitoring and evaluating data policy at the The Open Data Institute (ODI) in the company of international stakeholders in data policy and data practice, Jun/2022.

•    Joined the Cambridge leg of Deborah Frances-White’s UK tour of The Guilty Feminist. The performance will be recorded for her podcast, which averages 27,000 regular listeners, April/2022

•    “Key Challenges and Recommendations for AI Ethics: Industry Research Findings”, Feminist Approaches to AI Ethics in Industry: A Policy Workshop, April/2022 

•    “NatWest Group – Women’s Month – Taking the ‘bs’ out of AI bias”, Internal NatWest + External NatWest Podcast audience, March/2022

•    “Does AI de-Bias Recruitment? Race, Gender, and AI's ‘Eradication of Difference Between Groups’”, Institute of Science & Technology, Feb/2021

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 •    “Feminism and Technology”, Digital Democracies Institute | School of Communication
Simon Fraser University, Nov/2021 

•    “Disrupting Eurocentric Genealogies of Human Autonomy in AI”, Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference (4S), Oct/2021

•    “Coming Out or Fleshed Out? The Biodeterminism of Facial Recognition Technologies”, Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference (4S), Oct/2021

•    “Towards a Performative Conceptualization of Artificial Intelligence”, Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference (4S), Oct/2021

•    “Queering Classifications: How can gender studies’ sustained and radical critique of categorisations and classifications help mitigate unfair bias that arises from AI classification processes?”, Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference (4S), Oct/2021

•    “Does AI 'remove' discrimination in recruitment? a new approach from gender and anti-racist studies”, The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Sept/2021

•    “Feminist AI 101”, The Radical AI Podcast, June/2021  

•    “Queering Classifications in Recruitment AI”, Queer AI: On The ‘Coming Out’ of Smart Machines, Digital-Symposium, Technische Universität Dresden, June/2021   

•    “Artificial Intelligence and Unfair Bias: Addressing Gendered and Racialised Inequalities in AI”, Cambridge Festival for Ideas, March/2021

•    “Gender, Languages and Technology”, University of Sussex, Feb/2021

•    “Making Ends Meet in a Superintelligent Slum: Artificial Intelligence and Economic Precarity in Nicoletta Vallorani’s Il Cuore Finto di DR”, Productive Futures: The Political Economy of Science Fiction, Bloomsbury, Sep/2019.

•    “Quotidian: Presentation of Our Feminist App”, Horizon 2020 GRACE Conference: Gender and Cultures of (In)Equality in Europe, Casco Art Institute, Mar/2019.

•    “Science Fiction as the Engine for Cultures of Equality”, Horizon 2020 GRACE Conference: Gender and Cultures of (In)Equality in Europe, University of Utrecht, Mar/2019.

•    “Science Fictional ‘Planetarity’ as a Critique of the Global”, Global F(r)ictions, University of Bologna, Dec/2018.

•    “Destablising Gender and Race in Contemporary Science Fiction: Frankenstein’s Legacy”, Bicentennial of Frankenstein Conference, University of Bologna, Nov/2018.

•    “Equality’ and New Forms of Humanism in European Women’s Science Fiction”, Budapest Spring School GRACE Conference, University of Budapest, Mar/2018.

•    “Research Update”, Mid-term Review for the GRACE Project with the European Commission, Atria Institute on Gender and Women’s History, Amsterdam, Sep/2017.

•    “In the Hard Times, (and the Good): Solidarities Beyond Race and Gender in Critical Utopian and Dystopian Women’s Science Fiction”, 18th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society - Europe, Utopia and Solidarity, Gdansk, Poland, Jul/2017.

•    “Research Update”, Granada Summer School GRACE Conference, University of Granada, Jun/2017.

•    “A Geocritical Exploration of ‘Racial’ and Gendered Spaces in Contemporary Science Fiction”, Women’s Voices and Genealogies in Literary Studies in English Conference, University of Bologna, Jan/ 2017.

•    “Utopia and Science Fiction”, A Utopian Matinée: Projects and Reflections Between Lisboa and Bologna Conference, University of Bologna, Italy, Jan/2017.

•    “Misunderstood: The Trials and Triumphs of Radclyffe Hall”, Gender Bender Festival, University of Bologna, Nov/2016.

•    “A Queer and Utopian Hermeneutic”, EDGES PhD Matinée, University of Bologna, Jun/2016.

•    “Research Update”, Hull Spring School GRACE Opening Conference, University of Hull, Mar/2016.